File 00 · Briefing
Directives, dossiers and 1:1s in one place. The follow-up you promised in Tuesday's meeting is on Thursday's list, and you only wrote it down once.
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Most people who run a department keep three systems: a notebook, a spreadsheet of follow-ups and a board they stopped updating in March. Direktiv is one system, built around the day you actually have.
The morning briefing
Today puts your priorities at the top, then what's due, what's overdue and who you're waiting on. Overdue directives stay pinned until you finish them, move them or drop them. Nothing quietly falls off the bottom.
Three to five priorities, picked by you each morning
Overdue stays pinned until you deal with it
Days waiting, and one click to nudge
Capture
Press Ctrl K and type it the way you'd say it. People, dates, classifications and priority are read straight off the line. Anything without a home goes to the Dead Drop, the inbox you clear when you plan your day.
For things that aren't anything yet. Type a line, no fields. Each note shows its age, and from day three Today reminds you to decide. Turn it into a directive, a follow-up, a 1:1 point or a page. On day seven anything still there is filed in the Dead Drop as a follow-up, so nothing sits there forever.
Nothing falls off the bottom. Everything has a file.
Notes
Write the meeting the way it happens. The action you jotted in the margin becomes a directive without retyping, and when you tick it off on Today, the note knows.
Vendor review is running two weeks late. Priya thinks the shortlist can still land before the board. Budget sits at withheld against a cap of withheld.
Priya to send the vendor shortlist → HQ-151
Sam to book the offsite venue → HQ-147
KEY: Board date moves to 3 December. Everything else holds.
| Vendor | Score | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Halden & Co | 82 | Low |
| Northpoint | 74 | Medium |
| Arbor Systems | 61 | High |
Type [] and the line is an action. Promote it, and the status stays in step both ways
Start a line with Key: and it joins every key point you've written, searchable
Pasted from Excel. The table keeps its shape
FiledOperatives
Each person you meet regularly gets a series: a cadence, a running list of briefing points and a history you can search. Their page shows everything between you, both ways.
Type 1:1 @dana anywhere and it's on her agenda. Reorder them when it matters.
The meeting opens with the open points, open actions both ways and whatever carried over last time.
Discussed points close, the rest carry forward, actions go out as directives with dates, and the next meeting is set.
Each person also gets one running page of private notes. Only you can read it, even when the series is shared with your EA. The server enforces that. It isn't a setting you might forget.
Initiatives
A mandate groups directives into workstreams, each with an owner and a target date. Health is On track, At risk or Off track, always written in words as well as colour. The weekly review walks you through them, worst first.
Fit-out quote came in 18% over. Asking for a second quote before we commit.
Heads of terms agreed. Legal reviewing clause 14.
■ The status log is append-only. Nobody rewrites the record.
Ask the Analyst for a brief and it reads the workstreams, the directives and the last five updates, then drafts the risks and next steps for you to keep or bin.
Your own columns, WIP limits that warn you, and list and calendar views. Filter by typing: priority:high due:<7d.
One list across every operation. Drag to rank, group by mandate, and commit to a This week set you'll actually finish.
Keys like HQ-142 that never change, subtasks, links (blocks, relates to), recurring directives and attachments.
Tag directives, dossiers, mandates and operatives. Turn on a lens and every view shows only that classification.
Delegation and access
Give your EA a delegate seat. They can run your Today, clear your Dead Drop, move dates and nudge people, and every change is logged as theirs: Sam (for Alex) moved HQ-142 to Friday.
Assign work to anyone, with or without an account. If they join later, everything's already theirs. Projects keep work apart, and nothing crosses between them.
Every operation, notebook, section and 1:1 is Unclassified, Classified (you and the people you pick) or Eyes Only. The server checks it on every request, including search, sync, export and the Analyst.
AI assistance
Ask for a summary of a page, the actions buried in a meeting, a suggested order for your day or a brief on a mandate. Nothing changes until you accept it.
The practical part
Read and write with no signal. Changes sync when you're back, and the app shows what's still waiting.
Install it from the browser on iPhone, Android, Mac or Windows. Swipe to complete, pull to sync.
Sign in with a passkey, or a password and an authenticator code. No shared logins, ever.
Your files are stored in Amazon Web Services' Sydney region and encrypted at rest.
Export everything as JSON and Markdown whenever you like. Your work is never locked in.
A command palette and shortcuts for the common moves. Your hands stay on the keys.
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