Annotated example

Save one real, completed case and write the reasoning in the margins beside it. Unlike a blank template or a checklist of steps, it preserves the judgment calls: why you chose this answer, what tripped you up, what good looked like.

Save one real, completed case and write the reasoning in the margins beside it. Unlike a blank template or a checklist of steps, it preserves the judgment calls: why you chose this answer, what tripped you up, what good looked like.

Example

You keep last spring's finished camp registration in the family folder, marked up: "checked extended-care, it sells out by March 1," "pediatrician signature took nine days, start early." Next January you follow your own annotated copy instead of re-deriving all of it.