Connect the steps. Keep the checks.

Two workflows that run from raw material to a record a colleague can act on, with the review points left inside the process.

A workflow here is the long version of a task: not a single check, but the stages that carry a raw input through to a record somebody else can act on. The review points sit inside the stages, so a mistake is caught where it happens rather than in a final read-through, and the output of each stage becomes the input of the next.

There are two pages in this column. Build a checked research brief from source documents starts from a question and a set of published sources and ends with the brief, its source register and the open questions still standing. Run a meeting follow-up workflow from recording to handoff starts at permission to record and ends with an importable register and a handoff pack.

Start where your raw material is: documents send you to the research brief, a recording sends you to the meeting follow-up. Both pages reuse the shorter guides in the same task group for the individual steps, and both are written to be run once and then kept — the exported files, not the memory of the run, are what carry the work forward.

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