The tool, in your browser
The promise list
One row per promise. Put in what was promised, who owns it, the day it was made and the day it’s due, and this flags anything past its date and keeps the count — open, stuck, done, overdue. That’s your Monday read in one glance instead of an hour of digging.
Free, and it asks for nothing. No email, no account, no sign-up. What you type stays in this browser on this device.
Read this first
This page only knows about this browser. Nothing you type is sent to us and nothing syncs, so your office manager and your foreman don’t get it — though anyone who opens this page on this computer can read it. The play wants ONE list the whole company can see, so use this to start yours today and to run your own Monday read, and when you’re ready to share it, put the-promise-list.xlsx on the shared drive and work from there.
The list fills in right here in your browser. If this line stays put, JavaScript is off — the spreadsheet below does the same job.
How it gets used
- Put your own promise on first. Before you ask a foreman to log anything, one of yours goes on the list — and you keep it. That’s the part that makes the whole thing work.
- Add a row every time someone promises something. One list for the whole company — not one per meeting, not one per crew.
- Pick a Status: Open, Done, or Stuck. Stuck is not off the list — it’s the flag that a promise needs the blocked-not-blamed review.
- When something’s in the way, write it in What’s blocking it: the snag and the fix you agreed, a few words.
- One day a week, same time, go down the list out loud. Anything marked Overdue is what you talk about.
- Nothing comes off until it’s Done or somebody kills it on purpose. “I forgot” is not a way off the list.
Want it in a spreadsheet?
The same list as a spreadsheet
the-promise-list.xlsx is this list as a spreadsheet — same columns, same rules — for the computer at the shop. Two differences in the page’s favour: it has no twenty-row ceiling, and every row starts Open instead of needing the Status column set before it counts. Two the other way: the file can sit on a shared drive where everyone sees it, and it opens on any computer you send it to. The sheets ask for your email once; this page never does.
The play behind it — M2-01 One List for Every Promise — is how a promise gets on the list in the first place, and the sheet notes spell out every column and formula.