The things other people owe you
Mark an action as waiting, name the person, pick a follow-up date. Zephyr keeps the clock and drafts the chase — then waits for you to approve it.
The chase, written and waiting for you
When something has been sitting with someone else too long, Zephyr drafts the nudge and holds it. It does not send. You read it, you change it if it is wrong, and you press the button — or you don't, and nothing happens.
That is the whole design. An assistant that sends on your behalf is an assistant you have to supervise, which is not less work.
To Sarah Mitchell · about the Thursday rota
Hi Sarah — just circling back on the Thursday rota. Are we still on for the revised version this week? Happy to work around whatever you have.
Half your workload is other people's
Nothing in a normal task list represents "I asked for this and it hasn't come back". So it lives in your memory, and it's the first thing to go.
Mark it waiting, then stop thinking about it
Set an action to waiting, name the person, and pick when you'd want to chase. That's the whole interaction. Zephyr holds the clock.
When the follow-up date passes, it surfaces the item, drafts a follow-up message in your voice from the original context, and puts it in front of you with the approve step attached. You edit it or you send it. You never come back to an outbox full of things it sent for you, because it can't.
- Waiting-for view. Everything outstanding, by person, oldest first.
- You promised. The mirror image — commitments you made that someone else is waiting on.
- At risk. Items whose deadline is close and whose dependency hasn't moved.
- Drafts, never sends. Generating the follow-up and sending it are two different steps, and only one of them is automatic.
External communication always requires approval. This is not a setting. In the current release there is no configuration, plan or automation level that lets Zephyr send an email or a message on its own — the capability does not exist in the backend.
See it on your own work.
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