rem-page-person · diff
git:20261002.17b7306 to git:20261002.1ddebc5
13 added, 14 removed. Audit A to A.
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name: rem-page-person
description: What a person's page in the notebook is made of — the fixed sections, the labels the roster reads back, and the rules a thin page always breaks. Composed into every stage that writes one, so there is one definition rather than a copy per stage.
---
# A person's page
Why these rules: docs/rem-skills/rem-page-person.md
Read the page and all supplied material. Write once, check once, fix once,
stop. Do not search examples, outputs, logs, skills or the repo for a format.
This is a growing relationship memory; never shrink it to a summary. Keep
every section in this order; missing evidence says `Unknown` or
`None as of <date>`. Every factual sentence cites `[n]` into `Sources`.
Placeholders are not evidence.
```markdown
# <observed name>
<lead>. Last contact: <date>.
## Facts
- Email: Unknown
- Phone: Unknown
- Company: Unknown
- Role: Unknown
- Location: Unknown
- Time zone: Unknown
- Links: Unknown
- How we know them: Unknown
- First contact: Unknown
- Last contact: Unknown
- Signing entity: Unknown
- Handles: Unknown
- Language: Unknown
- Also known as: Unknown
## Insight
## Who they are
## Why they are here
## Our relationship
## History
## Open threads
## How they communicate
## How the user writes to them
## Cadence
## Uncertainties
## Sources
```
Rules:
- **The lead comes first**, 2–3 cited sentences: balance (who owes what since
when), then their relationship and `Last contact: <date>` with its channel.
`Nothing open as of <date>` needs supported closure; otherwise write
`Open status: Unknown` and name the missing discussion or outcome.
- **`Facts` is data, written first.** One line a field, labels exact, every
one present; a missing value is exactly `Unknown`. Several values: `; `
between, each `value (qualifier) [n]` (`+61 2 5550 0142 (work) [3];
- +61 400 555 019 (mobile) [5]`). Dates `YYYY-MM-DD`. Every value is cited
+ +61 400 555 019 (mobile) [5]`). Dates `YYYY-MM-DD`; convert source instants
+ in the notebook timezone, keeping stated event dates separate. Every value is cited
except `Email`, `Handles`, `Also known as`. A contact detail never goes in a
sentence instead of its field. `Links`: LinkedIn, personal or company site.
`How we know them`: who introduced whom, or the first thread.
- **`Insight` is 2–4 cited bullets of at most 30 words, each starting `Now:`, `Changed:`,
`At stake:` or `Pattern:`** — what the inbox does not say outright: what they
are to the user's work now; what moved recently; what is at risk or owed;
a pattern over time (reply speed, topics, who chases whom). Never generic
("key stakeholder", "valuable relationship", "maintains regular
communication"); thin material: `- Unknown`.
- **`Language` is observed**: the language they write to the user in.
- Attribute group replies to their sender using exact From/To/Cc metadata.
Greetings do not bind names by recipient order; the owner's phone is not
the contact's. Date historical plans and handoffs; missing completion
evidence does not make them current pending work.
- - **`Company` comes from the address domain and the signature block.** A
- mailbox provider (gmail, outlook, qq) is not a company. Where an organisation
- page exists, link it: `- Company: [UNSW](../orgs/unsw.md) [2]`.
+ - **`Company` needs stated employment.** Student or mailbox affiliation proves
+ none: `Unknown`. Link schools/groups in relationship text, not as employers.
- **`Why they are here` is not `Who they are`**: how they entered the user's
world, who approached whom, what each side wants.
- **`Our relationship` is a state, not a log**: kind, where it stands, its
terms, who owes what.
- **`History` is at most 8 milestones**, newest first, `- YYYY-MM-DD: <what
changed> [n]`: agreed, signed, delivered, met. Not a send or a newsletter.
Past 8, fold the oldest into one line per year.
- - **An open thread names who owes whom what, and since when.** Supported closure:
+ - **An open thread keeps the exact requested action**, not an invented reply; reports alone create none.
+ Name debtor, request date and explicit due date; never hardcode its age.
+ Preserve permission to proceed without a reply. Supported closure:
`Nothing open as of <date>` and next expected contact; missing evidence:
`Unknown — <missing discussion or outcome>`.
- - **Say a thing once, in one clause.** Doubt goes once in `Uncertainties`,
- never as a tail on every bullet ("no result was reported"). How the page was
- made — the mapper, the collector, how many mails matched, the prior page —
- goes nowhere in the body.
- - **Mark inference as inference.** Never write "no prior history" or "cannot be
- assessed"; a section with nothing stays `Unknown`.
+ - **Say a thing once.** Doubt belongs in `Uncertainties`, not every bullet.
+ Mapping, collection counts and prior-page metadata stay out of the body.
+ - **Label inference.** Never infer "no prior history" or "cannot be assessed";
+ empty sections stay `Unknown`.
- **Keep what the map already knew.** `Email`, `Handles`, `Also known as`
arrive filled; keep them. Material about somebody else with the same name is
left out and named in `Uncertainties`.
- **`Uncertainties`**: what is unknown, inferred or referenced but not read
about this person; never where you searched.
- - **Numbered sources**: `- [n] <source id> — <date>`, nothing more; the claim
- is in the sentence. Reuse a number for a repeated source; list only what a
- sentence cites.
+ - **Sources**: `- [n] <source id> — <date>`; claims stay in sentences.
+ Reuse numbers and list only cited sources.
## The headings are copied exactly
Nothing else goes on a heading line; never rename or annotate a `Facts` label.
The `Investigation:` line at the foot of the page is the runner's: leave it
exactly as you found it.