The reread test: session notes for ADHD clients that fit on one page

Ember Console is a session-report builder for coaches, in closed beta at $8 a month with 5 free sessions a month. When a client tells you they will not reread the last report, three boxes are enough for a first template: what you agreed in their own words, the one next step, and what got in the way.

Each box gets its own eval, and mine all ask one thing: can the client use this box without going back to the last report? I call that the reread test.

One ADHD coach on r/lifecoaching keeps four or five sentences from each call rather than the transcript, and rejects the school that says the client carries the record: “Expecting them to carry it is literally insane.”

What goes into a one page summary for an ADHD client?

Type these three boxes, in this order, and stop.

1. What we agreed, in the client’s own words.
2. The one next step they committed to.
3. What got in the way since last time.

A coach in r/lifecoaching sends those three the same day, and quotes the client’s commitment back word for word.

The obstacle box is the one I would argue for. One r/lifecoaching commenter, when the work did not happen, asks what got in your way before anything else, and a box with that question in it asks a week early, the same move as what to send after a client misses.

What should each box’s eval check?

Three things: how long the box runs, whose words are in it, and whether a suggestion got written down as a commitment.

Length first. One executive coach sends two or three bullets and nothing more, and the ADHD coach above keeps four or five sentences. Either ceiling, typed into the box, is a standard the AI has to clear.

Then whose words: a commitment you summarized is one your client may not recognize on Thursday, so the eval asks for theirs.

The third check came from a builder in r/SideProject: you could ask for a raise and I’ll ask for a raise are different lines, and only one is the client’s.

Ember’s landing page puts it this way: “Get tailored AI output for every section of your template, while Ember learns from your edits and checks each result against your own criteria.”

What is not stated yet?

Four things about the box system I have not published, and will not guess at here.

1. What a box is, exactly.
2. How many boxes a default template has, and whether you can add, remove or reorder them.
3. What the eval checks: length, wording, the presence of a fact, or a rule you typed.
4. What happens when a box fails: how many reworks, and what you see while it runs.

So read the three boxes as a list from a forum; what ships in a template is mine to publish.

Type them, send one report, then ask which box the client read before the next call. Their answer tells you which boxes to keep, and a weekly review nobody opens tells you nothing.

Questions people ask next?

Should the client keep their own notes instead?

Some coaches ask for the reverse. One r/lifecoaching coach has the client email their own summary and commitments, so the synthesis is the client’s work. The ADHD coach quoted above rejects that for her practice.

How long should a session recap be?

Short enough to read once. The ceilings those two coaches name for their own practice are two or three bullets and four or five sentences per call, never the transcript. Put yours in the box as the standard to clear.