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Saudade and homecoming: organizing eight months of transition for two in a single shared notebook
Use Case
May 11, 202614 min

Saudade and homecoming: organizing eight months of transition for two in a single shared notebook

Five years in Lyon, a grandmother aging in Coimbra, and the decision in January to return to Portugal in September. A hundred administrative, family, and logistical tasks between two countries, seven subfolders (Documents, Housing, Family, Moving, Budget, Schools, Support), three access levels to include parents who stayed in the country without exposing everything. The return never happens upon arrival; it happens during the eight months before.

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Moving to another country as a couple: coordinating boxes, administration, and family in one binder
Use Case
May 11, 202613 min

Moving to another country as a couple: coordinating boxes, administration, and family in one binder

A couple, two children, three countries involved, and ninety days of scattered coordination between WhatsApp, emails, screenshots, and papers. Seven subfolders (Inventory, Housing, Administration, Children, Budget, Calendar, Logistics), three access levels to include movers, new school, and grandparents who lend a hand without exposing everything, voice dictation to capture ideas between two boxes, memory that remembers once and for all the language of the home and the country of arrival.

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Unchecking an accidentally checked task in a shared checklist: moderator mode and history arrive in TAMSIV 1.30
Build in Public
May 5, 202610 min

Unchecking an accidentally checked task in a shared checklist: moderator mode and history arrive in TAMSIV 1.30

When someone checks a task so they don't forget they're thinking about it, the whole group silently makes a mistake. Moderator mode that can uncheck what others have validated, full history of each item (who checked, who unchecked, at what time), full parity between tasks, memos, and events on attachments and comments. Anatomy of the premature check and its repair.

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