This prints black and white; the colour is your own ink. Colour each box with the pen you will use, then keep this page beside you as your key. No pen for a role? Write its letter in a circle.
| Your colour | Code | Role | Meaning | Pen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q | Ask | a numbered question for the AI | your pen, or write Q | |
| R | Stop | blocker, risk, broken, or not understood | your pen, or write R | |
| G | Keep | evidence, confident, something that worked | your pen, or write G | |
| X | Crux | the one thing that matters most | highlighter | |
| O | Maybe | an idea, a possibility, a what-if | your pen, or write O | |
| P | Sense | gut feeling, intuition, felt reaction | your pen, or write P | |
| D | Draft | provisional; do not trust yet | your pen, or write D | |
| B | Reason | what you think; the main content | black |
Write everything you can recall about consensus, replication and failure before you check a single note.
1. Consensus
2. Replication
3. Partition tolerance
4. Consistency models
Put the topic in the centre and grow the map from what W1-P2 surfaced.
Explain replication to someone who has never heard of it, in plain words.
Whatever you had to skip is the thing to ask about.
Write your questions for the AI with your Ask pen (or a circled Q), numbered. These come back with the photos.
Photograph each page flat and send them back together.