Home Base

• Word list: 18 of 19 tools now use your words (People waits on "People's roles"). 30 brand values were set to your exact words. Brand cards show Disclosure: six questions, each with its answer, state and source.
• Research guard: research does the first pass but can never approve, publish or overwrite you; its suggestion is held on the card with Accept, Edit or Clear. Words not on your lists wait for you. Investigate: one tap on any brand, place, person or media card, with your own "why".
• Guide Curator and maps: photos in one 3:4 frame with up to five more; swipe through them on both maps; Map and Directions open the real name and address; one pin per place (218 entries moved onto their place's pin); private notes never shown to readers. Rhinebeck, Tivoli, Red Hook and Annandale now sit in Kingston.
• Clean base (details filled, address checked, a land note, pin moved if more than 100 m off — your answers untouched): Kingston, the rest of Upstate, Todos Santos, Maine (840 places) and Montréal/Québec (395). NYC and LA are running. Each guide's calls are on Your calls.
• Beta: your ticks on the Beta picks page become approvals; only "Keep" counts. Publishing stays yours — the Publish button on the Editorial Beta card is never pressed without you.
• Research and ideas: Baukunst and Sylvie researched (verdicts wait for you); "Cool isn't enough anymore" and "The CANAVA Questionnaire" started as idea cards beside "Cute isn't enough anymore".
• Security: new tables start closed; 113 working tables and 38 back-office actions closed to the public; readers on 15 pages see published records only.

• Brand Desk search now finds brands by what they make, not just their name — "sweater" went from 1 brand to 14, "knitwear" from 9 to 55. Passing mentions no longer surface a brand. The public Brand Library search works the same way.
• 51 brands from your reels came in, along with Jo.S and Hollow Socks; St. Agni was updated. Mideast Bakery & Grocery was added as a New York place.
• The central list of categories (one shared set of words for what brands make and are made of) started that night, with research paused on your fields while it ran.
• Brand research couldn't save on its last run — saves to brands sometimes stall. Claude's to look at; nothing for you.

• Media Desk is now the one Media Diet tool; the old catalogue is retired and points to it (1 Oct). The waiting pile went from about 1,490 to 185.
• Your approved redesign went live (3 Oct); the old desk stays as "classic". 373 missing titles were found and put on waiting.
• Links inside your takes now show on the public page and widgets. A Role list for people (19 roles, from your own tags). A private research record holds assessments, sources and documents — never public (5 Oct).

• Rebuilt as a five-step path from adding a brand to seeing it live (27 Sep). You unpublished all 12 brands for vetting, so the Brand Library is empty for now.
• Rating pass ready (2 Oct): it shows who set each verdict — Keep, Change, Unrate or Archive, one at a time. 2,325 verdicts were set by research; none are yours yet.
• Images (4 Oct): every brand's images sit in one grid, and each stays a placeholder until you clear it (where it came from, who approved it). A cleared photo becomes the image on the brand's page.

• Decision is now Review / Yes / Hold / No. Every Hold (2,990) went back to Review for you to scan; Yes and No were left alone (5 Oct).
• New: Favourite, "I stayed here" with stay stories, a CANAVA rating that shows yours apart from research's suggestions (none of the 966 rated places count as yours yet), and a Dogs filter — 60 welcome, 27 on leash, 28 not allowed.
• Each guide uses its own place unit — town, neighbourhood and so on — set on 63 guides. About 1,500 addresses were cleaned across every guide, and doubles were folded (6 Oct).
• A publish check warns before a place goes Live; it doesn't block (6 Oct).

• Paris (104 places), Kyoto (38), Madrid (10), Seoul (8), Cape Town (7); Naples and Rome started empty. 39 more draft guides — US states and cities, Brussels, Amsterdam, St. Moritz, Norway, Sri Lanka and others.
• 35 places from your two Maine notes, 10 NYC places from a reel, and 16 Connecticut places moved out of Upstate NY.

• The block on database saves cleared around 5 October. From 25 Sep to 4 Oct the overnight jobs ran but weren't allowed to save; the opening watch, the open-issues report and brand research were the ones that lost days.
• Fixed: the security and expiry checks run and save on their own; the live-page check was rewritten; the overnight sorting can file media. New database checks: place structure (hourly), place units, and a daily publish-decision question.
• Still broken: the computer backup (silent since 27 Sep) and the sale-page web scan. The WTF scan is landing again since 4 Oct. The Media Desk research job is built but off — it's missing a key.
• Home Base itself: see "What happened" under the workshop — it now refreshes every morning on its own.

• 2,325 brand verdicts to confirm, and brand images to clear. Brand Desk
• 2,990 places back on Review; 37 "to check" from the address cleanup; the Out East leftovers; 7 places with no guide and a Canada East guide request. Guide Curator
• 373 found media titles, 17 borderline people, 14 film distributors and festivals. Media Desk
• Brand research: keep it on or switch it off. The Forerunner portfolio import: keep or undo. Portland areas for Maine: yes or no. Open Issues
• Revoke the old GitHub key found in a recovered file.

• The old Media Diet catalogue, Media Curator and Brand Curator (each points to its desk), and the Brand Desk test copy. The previous Media Desk, Brand Desk and Guide Curator stay as "classic".

• Keep running: the morning brief, the Media Edit, brand research (its verdicts feed Monday's tiles), the sales email scan, capture triage, the site mirror, the headroom check, the Home Base refresh, the recipe watcher, the accountability scan.
• Fix before relying on them: the WTF / F*CK YES scan (fires, lands nothing since 13 Aug); place research, the opening watch and the daily open-issues report (all waiting on the approval gate); the backup (free the disk first).
• Pause: the resource link finder (only placeholders left), the sales web scan (until its brand list is cleaned), recipe consolidation (the watcher covers it), people research (blocked).
• Retire: the weekly review and recap and the state-of-the-world weekly (this page does their job), the horoscope unless you miss it, the notes processor, PDF enricher and edit expander, the Canada, Out East and Montréal runs and the ecosystem miner (their work is done).
• Finished: about sixty one-time research bursts from June and July — all done; nothing to do but archive them.

Tools checked against the live hub and its sub-hubs today. The copies of the tools on your computer date from late August, so a page added since may not be on this list.

1. The asks list, extended — every card on the desk is a row, with its line, who has it, status, next step and date. Sessions move their own cards; your answers on Open Issues move yours. On since 26 Sep
2. A line tag on each hub entry — so the tool buttons come straight from the hub. On since 26 Sep
3. One row per job per run, in the checks list Home Base already reads — headline, a short version, a link. That gives Reports, the job lines on each tile and the "running, not landing" flags. It needs the approval gate settled. Ready, not switched on
4. The morning brief's "needs you" list written to that same checks list — the Email fold and the dated items in the top band. Ready, not switched on
5. The life database, read on load — stays, residencies, receipts trips, the move — for the Life tiles. On since 26 Sep

• The "Transaction Authorization Confirmation" calendar invite is a voicemail phishing lure — declined already; delete the series and mark the sender as spam. Don't click its link.
• A Google Voice voicemail from an unknown number on your old Gmail — check the number before calling back.
• Fieldstone · the Sagaponack renters cancellation DocuSign, if it isn't signed yet.
• Britt & Graff · cancel the propane service — a call, overdue since May.

• WIE Suite Braintrust tomorrow at 12:00 asks each person to bring one discussion point.
• Christine Alcalay's boutique evening, Thursday 8 Oct, 6:30–9:00, Park Slope (TheLi.st invite, not on your calendar).
• Spark of Hudson · Libra Season Banquet, 16 October. MAMA fall benefit, 20 October.

From the 6 October brief, which reads all six mailboxes. Links open the thread in Gmail.