Snapshot of the project record · Sat Oct 24, 2026 · The work layer from the Oct 21 redevelopment report, Phase 1: read-only views over structured records.
Prototype
Self-contained demo. Docs itself is unchanged — this sits beside it so you can compare.
The same record, two ways of seeing it
Nothing below is new information. Every item already exists somewhere in Docs today — the difference is whether you have to go and read it, or whether the record can answer on its own.
Today
Docs is a library
25 documents
You open one and read it. The project's state — what's live, what's waiting, what was decided — lives in prose, spread across the Changelog, Publish Status, Ideas, Roadmap, Daily Agenda, and Time Card.
To answer “what's waiting on me?” you read several documents and piece it together.
To answer “what shipped today?” you read the Changelog and count by hand.
Decisions are recorded after the fact, in the document that happened to carry them.
The prototype
The same record, as structured items
3 generated views — Today · Boards · Decisions
Each item is one record — title, lane, status stage, date, note — and the three views below are generated from those records. Nobody re-types anything: in the real Docs+, these regenerate from the living sources at every publish.
Today answers what's live, what's awaiting your word, and what shipped — on one screen.
Boards lays the whole pipeline out in the unified Status Key order.
Decisions keeps every ruling in one dated log, newest first.
Your command view: what's live, what's waiting on your word, and what shipped today.
Live now
Every surface, as the record stands on Sat Oct 24, 2026 — the Publish Status document, answered without opening it.
Awaiting the Director's word
Built, verified, or captured — each of these moves only on a ruling from Ben. In today's Docs these are scattered across agendas, ideas, and chat rooms.
Shipped today — Sat Oct 24
What the Changelog would take a page to tell you, at a glance — generated from the day's release events.
The pipeline, in the unified Status Key order:Shelf→Approved→Planned→In progress→In dev→Live
Stages with few cards are honest, not empty design — this is the project's real shape on Oct 24. Items move right only on the Director's word or a verified publish.
The rulings log
Every decision in one place, newest first — each with what was actually decided. Today these live inside whichever document or chat room carried them.