Leave a Useful Handover

A handover note helps work continue when you stop, change assistants or return another day. It is not a transcript of everything said. It is a small explanation of the current state: what exists now, which source governs it, what was checked and what should happen next. A good handover lets a new reader resume without pretending the earlier session is still fully available.

The prepared handover.md says that a two-sentence invitation draft exists, the current fact sheet controls its details, and staff still need to review the wording before it is used. It also states that no message was sent. These are useful distinctions. A document being drafted, reviewed, approved and delivered are different states, even when the text looks finished.

Include the remaining uncertainty rather than hiding it. For example, the event details may be confirmed while the business has not chosen the distribution channel. A next step can be review the draft for tone, then decide the channel. That is more actionable than continue marketing. The next assistant can handle the immediate task without making an unrequested publishing decision.

Ask your assistant to draft the handover from the actual work. Then read it before saving it as the project’s current note. If the assistant claims a source was checked but it only read a summary, correct the note. A handover should not turn an assumption into an approved fact merely because it appears in a tidy list.

Keep facts in their controlling source. The handover can point to current-facts.md rather than duplicate every event detail. When the facts change later, the next reader still knows where to verify them. If a dated state matters, label it as the state at the end of that session. That helps distinguish a historical note from the current business plan.

In the browser activity, choose the handover that names the draft state and next review. You are not being asked to write a diary after every chat. A short note is enough when it preserves the decisions a later session needs. This is project memory you can open, question and update, rather than a vague hope that the assistant will remember everything.