For lists you are about to tell or show someone
First and LastPut what matters where it sticks.
People remember the start and the end of a list and lose the middle. Peg yours on the line, star what must not be forgotten, and move it out of the dip. One run judges what matters and where it goes - or, for steps that must stay in order, gives you an opening line and a recap.
1 The list free
Or drop a .txt (a first line starting "For:" becomes the goal) or a .json file here.
2 The line free
Drag a card along the line, focus it and use the arrow keys, or use the arrows in the list. The bar under each card shows how well that place tends to stick - an illustration of the usual shape, not a measurement.
3 The placement metered
One run picks the lines your goal depends on (or takes your stars), decides whether the order can move, places what matters at the start and the end, and words an opening line and a recap. The page re-checks the reply.
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What matters most
What moved, and why
Could leave out
The page's check
4 Saved lists
How it works
The serial position effect: in a list heard or read once, the first items get rehearsed and the last are still fresh, so both are remembered better than the middle. The line shows it as a sag - cards near the posts sit where things stick; cards in the dip are the easiest to lose.
A list of three or four has two strong spots, the first and the last place; a list of five has three; six or more have four - the first two and the last two. They fill in this order: first place, last place, second place, second-to-last. "Move starred to the ends" puts your starred lines there in the order you starred them, and keeps everything else in its own order.
Some lists cannot move: steps where one needs the one before, or events in time order. Then the run keeps the order and gives you a line to say first and a recap to say last, so what matters still lands at both ends. Nothing here promises anyone will remember - it just stacks the odds.