+analyze_hierarchy_and_report ~/cloud/branch_road "hearth and home notes (branch road, yo!)"
+
+# games and fun stuff. not sure why these count as backlog, but whatever.
+analyze_hierarchy_and_report ~/cloud/games_yo "games, yo!"
+
+# some source code that needs to be sucked into other places, other codebases. they are not
+# supposed to pile up here. but they have, so we track them.
+analyze_hierarchy_and_report ~/cloud/scavenging_source "source scavenging"
+
+# and then count up the things that we think will be cleaned soon, but one thing we have learned
+# unsorted files haven't been categorized yet.
+analyze_hierarchy_and_report ~/cloud/disordered "unsorted files"
+
+# we now consider the backlog of things to read to be a relevant fact. this is going to hose
+# up our weight accounting considerably.
+analyze_hierarchy_and_report ~/cloud/reading "reading list"