What it asks of you
That your note goes on the episode rather than into an email. That is the whole change.
For a standards & practices
Your note is attached to the episode, not an inbox
A compliance note that lives in an email thread is a note that can be missed, and the miss is found after air.
Notes attach to the object
On the episode or the package, with an owner and a done-state. Not in a thread whose subject line is a number.
You are a gate, if you should be
A destination can be configured so the rest of the fan-out waits on your pass, rather than going out in parallel and hoping.
Nothing is deleted
Everything is archived with a reason, so "what was in that show" stays answerable long after.
The question that stops
“"Did anybody action the S&P note on 1059?"”
Everyone else
It has to be worth something to every link, or it gets abandoned
A board only stays true if the people upstream and downstream of you are also getting something out of it. Here is what it does for them.
- Post SupervisorStop being the place answers live
- Post CoordinatorThe status chase ends
- Post ProducerSee the whole season without a status meeting
- EditorBe told what is yours, then left alone
- Assistant EditorStop being asked for the same file twice
- Online EditorKnow the cut is locked before you conform
- Audio / SweeteningGet the handoff with the version on it
- Captioning / LocalizationOne place that says what is ready and what is cleared
- Showrunner / EPOne screen, no status meeting
- Line Producer / UPMSee post from the production side
- Network / DeliveryKnow what shipped, where, and whether it passed
- IT / EngineeringNothing new is exposed to the internet
See it on a real board
The demo is the actual software on a made-up show. Open it and look at the part that is yours.
Walkthroughs are with Kevin Kelsey — 15 years an assistant editor, Children's & Family Emmy-nominated, and the person who built this. More about him.