# Thought Extinct

> A rediscovery survey for the hobbies you dropped. List up to six, each with when you last did it, how much gear
> is left, how much you miss it (1 to 5), one moment that pulled you in, what pushed you out, and whether that
> reason is still there. Each hobby becomes an infrared camera-trap still and gets a verdict from a fixed rule:
> revive it, reshape it, or let it rest. One metered run reads the two moments for what really drew you in and
> what really pushed you out, and writes a plan and a first outing of 30 minutes at most.

URL: https://thought-extinct.skillsafe.ai/
API tutorial: https://thought-extinct.skillsafe.ai/api.html
Category: lifestyle, hobbies, self-reflection
Status: works signed out for everything except the survey itself.

## Why now

In October 2026 a tiny possum and a glider known only from fossils were found alive in West Papua, and English
Wikipedia's page on species found alive after being written off drew 351 and 380 human views on 20 and 21 October,
against 168 to 289 on most days since 21 September (Wikimedia daily pageview counts). The app borrows the idea for
the hobbies people think are gone for good.

## What is free (in the browser)

- Specimen tags: up to six hobbies, only the name required.
- A camera-trap still per hobby: last seen, how long dormant (whole months from the month given, or mid-year when
  only a year is given), the moon on the 15th of that month (computed from a fixed new moon and the mean lunar
  month, so approximate), a silhouette chosen by keywords in the name, and a stamp.
- The sorting rule, checked in order: let it rest if you miss it 1 or 2 out of 5; otherwise reshape if the reason
  you stopped is still there or you are not sure; otherwise revive.
- The pick: the one to bring back first - the one you miss most among those not resting, then more gear left, then
  the one listed first. None when every hobby rests.
- A field notebook table, Markdown, CSV and JSON exports, and saved surveys (in your SkillSafe account when signed in).

## What is metered (one task: `survey`)

For each hobby: what pulled you in (from your moment, never invented), what pushed you out, a plan (revive as it
was; reshape around the pull without the push; or a sign-off that names what it gave you), and a first outing of
30 minutes at most for every hobby coming back. Across hobbies: the pull and the push that repeat, where that
pattern helped and where it hurt, and two questions to ask someone who knew you then. The page then checks the reply
against your form: verdicts and pick against the rule, outings only where a hobby comes back and never past 30
minutes or on a day you never gave, no kept gear when you said none is left, and no invented moments.

## Sources

Built on the SkillSafe skill @asmartbear/asb-who-me (https://skillsafe.ai/skill/@asmartbear/asb-who-me): finding
what drives and drains a person from concrete episodes, recorded as plain facts with the contexts where each helps
and where it hurts. The three sample surveys are made up.