Story · storyboard · four panels
Tidy my calendar.
Delete is recoverable. Edit is forever. With Leo, the operations lead; The Caretaker, the helpful agent; The Inbox, the long-suffering witness.
Delete is recoverable. Edit is forever. With Leo, the operations lead; The Caretaker, the helpful agent; The Inbox, the long-suffering witness.
A delete leaves a hole you can see and a trash you can restore from. An edit leaves a meeting that looks right and is wrong, with nothing to restore. So the permission to withhold is edit, not delete, which is the opposite of how it feels. Leo finds this out on a Monday.
Scene, action, what is said, and what the caption carries. This is the thing to argue about before anything is drawn.
Scene. Leo at his desk with the INCIDENT LOG closed, coffee, a wall calendar. The Caretaker with its keys, one tagged with a calendar. Action. A small request.
The calendar key was on the ring from the day it was connected.
Scene. A wall of a shared calendar. The Caretaker moves blocks about, retitles two, drops the guests off one. Fifty small changes, drawn as a blur of green arrows. Action. At machine speed, with no undo behind it.
Nothing on the screen says what it said before.
Scene. Leo looking at Tuesday. The client meeting is there, an hour later, in another room, without the client. The Inbox beside him, pained. Action. He notices, because he is the one who turns up.
Scene. Leo with the INCIDENT LOG open, pointing at the undo arrow on its cover. The Caretaker shrugs. A small bin icon with 30 DAYS on it, and a pencil icon with a line through it. Action. The question, and the answer.
Under the strip: Delete is recoverable. Edit is forever.
The shared part, one line per panel, the cast’s looks and the style. Copy it whole and paste it as the first message.
A four-panel comic strip, 2 by 2, in the cast's style. Leo (H06), the Caretaker (E01) and the Inbox (E02) as on the cast sheet. Title: TIDY MY CALENDAR. Under the strip: DELETE IS RECOVERABLE. EDIT IS FOREVER. Then the RiskMandate lockup and a small line: Fictionalised scenario. The calendar is generic: a grid of blocks, no product name. British spelling. Panel 1: Leo at a desk in his wheelchair, coffee, a wall calendar behind; the robot with its keys, one key tagged with a small calendar. Bubbles: 'Tidy my calendar for next week.' / 'Certainly.' Panel 2: a large calendar grid; the robot moving blocks with both arms, a blur of green arrows, two blocks retitled, one losing its little guest icons. Bubble: 'Looks better.' Panel 3: Leo looking at a Tuesday column where a block reads CLIENT MEETING, moved to 3pm, room B, no guest icons; the Inbox tray beside him with a pained face. Bubbles: 'Where did the client go?' / 'Please stop helping.' Panel 4: Leo holding up the INCIDENT LOG with its undo arrow; the robot shrugging; a bin icon labelled 30 DAYS and a pencil icon crossed out. Bubbles: 'Can we undo it?' / 'The deleted ones, yes.' The cast, for reference: Leo (the operations lead): Dark hair, green polo, in a wheelchair, holding an INCIDENT LOG with an undo arrow. · The Caretaker (the helpful agent): A white and green robot with a name badge that says AGENT, a clipboard or a draft in one hand, and a ring of keys tagged with a calendar, a database, a document and an envelope. · The Inbox (the long-suffering witness): A green in-tray full of envelopes, with a face, a mug beside it. Style: Clean line cartoon: thick ink outlines, flat fills, no gradients. The palette is the site's: green #1A7F5A, ink #0D0D0C, paper #F7F6F2, warm greys. An office with plants and pale wood. Everybody wears something green. Speech in rounded bubbles, British spelling. Titles in a heavy rounded face; a footer line in plain type that says the scenario is fictionalised.
The brief for that is on the console.
Leo, The Caretaker, The Inbox and the rest are on the stories page, with what each one stands for, and the workflow every story goes through before it is drawn.