[cormacrelf]

There is some merit in at least trying to think about your users at every stage of the design. Methodically putting the user in every sentence refocuses your work on what makes the experience better for them. You are right that making it super repetitive makes you filter out the bits about user interaction when you read a long list.

User stories are mostly there to frame progress only in terms of things your project owner cares about. If you talk to non-tech people describing their experience of a product, they don't just reel off a list of nouns at you. They say 'you can click on the little thing and it wiggles'. So this is how you should be reporting to your non-tech boss.

Don't say 'I made /timesheet/:id redirect to /timesheet/:id/slug-of-sheet-name', say 'Users trying to get back to a timesheet can just type some of the name in their browser's URL bar and it will show up'. Definitely don't say the word 'slug'. They will thank you for it.