island-reclamationlisted

# Island Reclamation (Adding a Personality Island) > An Island is one of the personality islands in the user's head — Hockey Island, in the film. It stays above water only as long as memories keep coming to visit it: a domain of responsibility or interest that has to be maintained, not a task that ends when it is finished. Name it too narrowly and you will rename it the day the tools change, breaking every link; name it too broadly and it becomes a junk drawer; mistake a Project for an Island and it can never be closed. And a standing island still has to be lived in — when nobody visits, it cracks apart and slides into the sea, exactly as in the film. In this vault that collapse has a name: `memorb-forgetter` sweeping the pages into `memorbs/Dump/`. > Hence the iron rule of this workflow: **stages 1-3 are conversation only. Create no file and no folder until the user has confirmed.** ## Order of operations ### Stage 1: Agree on what the Island is (talk only) An Island is a **domain of responsibility or interest whose standard must be maintained indefinitely** — not a product, not a tool, not a goal with a finish line. Converge with the user on three questions: 1. **Island or Project?** If it has a definable finished state (pass the certification, ship the system) it is a Project: open it under `memorbs/Long-Term/Projects/` and link it back to the relevant Island. Only something maintained without end — health, finances, a standing responsibility, a lasting interest — is