Almanac · Practice
Plotting a chart
The four stations from fragments to an issued cartouche.
A plate is drawn in four stations. The marketing site uses the same words. The product should too.
Station I — Dump
Fragments arrive as files, quotes, and half-true threads. The UI for this template is a still life, not an uploader. When you wire a backend, keep the language: dump, not ingest.
Station II — Bearings
A keeper marks which sources they will sail by. Meridian plots rhumbs. Disagreement stays as two coasts.
Station III — Harbors
A harbor is a named landing. Unsigned ports do not appear on the issued plate.
Station IV — Cartouche
Someone writes a name. That is the issue. Without it you have a sketch.
Example of a rhumb record
{
"from": "src_harbor_interview",
"to": "src_archive_box_12",
"keeper": "amina-voss",
"takenAt": "2026-07-14"
}
Pretty JSON is not a coastline. It is a bearing you can check.