Taking or refusing what Smoke offers
When Smoke reads a page it leaves marks — at most a few, and often none. There are four kinds and no others.
| Mark | What it means |
|---|---|
| A line | Work that exists with nothing carrying it |
| A note | Something worth knowing about a line that is already there |
| A rewrite | That line’s own words are now wrong — a date moved, a decision was made |
| Done | That line is finished, and here is what says so |
What you can do with one
Take it and it happens through exactly the path your own hands would take: a suggested line is created like a typed one, a rewrite is an ordinary edit, a done is an ordinary status change.
Edit it if the answer is “yes, but not like that” — which it often is. The line opens for you to change before it lands.
Say no and it goes.
Saying no sticks
A refusal is remembered. Smoke will not offer the same thing again, and — since a read is written fresh each time — it will not offer a reworded version of it either.
It is spent when the line it was about changes. If you rewrite a line you had refused a remark on, there is something new to say about it and Smoke may say it.
Where a mark points
Every mark names something real: a line you can see, or a page you are on. Where a mark came out of your mail or calendar it links back to the message or the meeting, so you can check it. Smoke never composes a link — if it cannot point at the actual thing, it says nothing rather than guessing.