planning-with-files

To persist complex task planning across sessions, you can create task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md files in your project root to store phases, discoveries, and progress outside short-term context.

Tracking research findings during a multi-step project is best handled by writing discoveries and decisions to an external findings.md file, ensuring your research data remains stable and accessible throughout the workflow.

Session recovery for interrupted workflow planning works by using helper scripts to automatically recover your planning state from the persistent task_plan.md and progress.md files after a context reset.

You do not need any external dependencies to manage multi-step project documentation on disk, as this planning framework operates independently using local markdown files and integrated helper scripts.

Your complex task plan gets lost during long workflows because short-term context limits memory retention, but persisting artifacts to disk via task_plan.md and progress.md prevents this loss.