Wrap the day into the matter file

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A matter's real record is spread across a call log, a voicemail from opposing counsel, a text from the client, a note in the margin of a draft, and your memory, which is gone by Monday. A ten-minute wrap-up fixes that if it always has the same shape and never has a name in it when it goes through a tool. DONE: what happened, with the matter code on every line. DECIDED: what the client, the partner or you decided, one line each, with who said it by role. CHANGED: any date, position, figure or scope that moved, written as old value, new value, reason, never buried in prose. OPEN: what is unfinished, each with an owner by role and a date the court or the calendar gave, as it prints. AUTHORITIES OPENED: what you read today, so tomorrow's VERIFY list is shorter. The model sorts; it computes no deadline, because a deadline it computed is a deadline you did not check, and it adds no name.

Here are my scraps from today on matter [code], de-identified: [paste]. Sort them into DONE (with the matter code on every line), DECIDED (one line each, who by role), CHANGED (old value, new value, reason), OPEN (owner by role, date as the order or calendar prints it), AUTHORITIES OPENED (what I read today, with today's date). Do not compute a deadline, do not tidy a figure you cannot see in the scraps, and do not add any name. If a scrap fits nowhere, list it under UNSORTED.