Standing questions
An empty chat that shows your answers instead of suggesting prompts. Questions you would ask every week sit under the composer, already answered, with what changed since you last looked.
Nothing new since Tuesday
- Tuesday, 6 in
A small storm on Friday, mostly rain below 7,000 feet.
- You, #941 holds
Copies are coming back every three or four days.
- Now
The posted wait for routine renewals.
Closed both ways at Paul’s Slide since the October storms.
The league hasn’t announced spring dates.
Still only in Safari Technology Preview.
No store within 20 miles has one.
The cheapest seat is $112, in the upper bowl.
Every assistant fills the space under an empty composer with the same few buttons: create an image, write or edit, look something up. They are the same for everyone, every day. Yet close to 40% of web searches are someone looking for something they have looked for before (Teevan et al., 2007). The question people bring back is the one worth keeping.
Here that slot holds your standing questions, each already answered. Saving a question makes it commit to one value: inches of snow, a road’s status, your place in a queue, a range of weeks. So a change is a change of value, not a paragraph written again. A changed answer shows what it was, struck, and what it is now, in the only colour on the page. The first one opens on its own: the line draws on from where you last looked, the figure counts up, and it folds back into its row. The greeting stops asking what you want and says how many answers moved.
- Tuesday, 6 inNow, 14 in
Friday’s storm is coming in colder. The forecast went from 6 to 14 inches.
- You, #3Tuesday, #941 holds
Six holds ahead of you were filled this week.
- TuesdayNow
The State Department shortened its posted wait for routine renewals.
Caltrans opened one lane under a signal at Paul’s Slide at noon.
- 17 in
Through Sunday: another 3 inches falls Saturday night.
Sign-ups opened this morning on the league’s site.
When do sign-ups close?
Sign-ups close January 30. Evaluations are the first two Saturdays in February.
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- Tuesday, 6 inNow, 14 in
Friday’s storm is coming in colder. The forecast went from 6 to 14 inches.
No store within 20 miles has one.
10
- You, #3Tuesday, #941 holds
Six holds ahead of you were filled this week.
Caltrans opened one lane under a signal at Paul’s Slide at noon.
- TuesdayNow
The State Department shortened its posted wait for routine renewals.
7 more, no change since Tuesday
50
Sign-ups opened this morning on the league’s site.
- Tuesday, 6 inNow, 14 in
Friday’s storm is coming in colder. The forecast went from 6 to 14 inches.
- You, #3Tuesday, #941 holds
Six holds ahead of you were filled this week.
47 more, no change since Tuesday
9 have been quiet for a month. Stop watching them?
Pick one and it rises into the composer as a token, the way a saved search sits in a search bar. With it there, what you type is about that question. “Make it Sunday” changes the question itself and checks it again; a changed question is drawn in ink, because it is new, not news. “When will it come?” is answered beside it and leaves the question as it was. With nothing in the composer, typing finds your questions, and Enter opens the one you named or asks a new one, answered as a row you can keep.
Every standing question is a check that runs on a schedule, and checks cost money, which is why the shipped versions stop at about ten. Only what changed takes a row; everything quiet folds into one line, and a question that has been quiet for a month offers to stop. Fifty is a table, and I haven’t drawn it. Pull over an agent asks where an agent should live on a phone. This asks what it should show before you’ve typed a word.