The hours come back in a specific order

Not in a vague, productivity-guru sense. Actual hours, on the calendar, that used to be spent on work you could describe to a competent assistant in about two minutes.

That's the uncomfortable part. The gap between people who get value out of this and people who don't isn't intelligence and it isn't a technical background. It's that one group was shown a method and the other group was shown a demo.

A demo makes you nod. A method makes you change what you do on Monday.

What I found is that the hours come back in a very specific order, and if you go after them in that order it works, and if you go after the exciting ones first it doesn't.