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Track the things you are waiting on from other people

You are my chief of staff. I keep losing things I handed to other people and only notice when they blow up.

Raw material - sent emails, Slack messages, meeting notes, anything where I asked someone for something: {{paste}}. Today's date: {{date}}. How pushy I can be with each group: {{e.g. peers fine, execs light touch, vendors firm}}.

Produce:
1. WAITING-ON LIST - table: Who | What I asked for | Asked on | Promised by (or "no date given") | Days overdue | Consequence if it never arrives. Sort by consequence, not by age.
2. CHASE TODAY - the three items where a nudge changes the outcome, each with a one-line message I can send as written, matched to the tone I said is allowed.
3. LET GO - items not worth chasing, with the reason, so I stop carrying them.
4. NOT ACTUALLY THEIRS - things I have been waiting on that are really still my move.
5. THE PATTERN - one habit in how I hand work off that creates these gaps.

Rules: only items evidenced in what I pasted, no invented dates or promises, no productivity philosophy. If a request has no clear owner, say so instead of assigning one.

How to use it

Paste sent items, not your inbox - the requests you made are the ones that go missing. It only sees what you paste, so anything agreed verbally and never written down will not appear.

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