An AI assistant working on your project hits a choice only you can make. It asks in the chat. If you are not watching, the question scrolls away, the session ends, or the assistant picks an answer itself and carries on. The next session starts with neither the question nor your answer.
Knotpad gives the question a place in the project. A connected assistant can add a decision card to a note: the question, the options and what it recommends. You answer in the note when you are ready, and any assistant that reads the note afterwards sees your choice. The examples use an illustrative customer portal project.
What a decision card holds
A decision card is a short block of note text that shows as a card in preview:
id: D-1
title: Which status labels should customers see?
context: Support uses five internal states.
task: ((Build the request status page))
recommended: B
why: Three labels match what support can promise.
scope: The status page only, not the support guide.
- A: All five internal states
- B: Received, In progress, Resolved
- C: Open and Closed
It names the task it unblocks, recommends an option with a reason, and says what an answer covers. The scope line matters: choosing the labels is not permission to rewrite the support guide. The options are not checkboxes, so picking one never ticks off a task by accident.
Ask the assistant to use one
Knotpad's instructions for connected assistants already say to leave a decision card when they are blocked on a choice that is yours, and to stop there. You can make it part of your own instructions:
If you need a decision from me, add a decision card to the note with your recommendation and the reason, tell me which note it is in, and work on something else until I answer.
Answer when you are ready
In preview, pick an option and press Submit decision. Knotpad writes your answer into the note with your name and the time, and the card changes from Open to Decided. If you change your mind, press Change decision: the earlier answer stays in the note as history, and the newest one counts.
Because the answer is part of the note, it syncs and exports with the note like any other text.
The next session, or another assistant, picks it up
When an assistant reads the note, it gets each decision as open or decided, with the chosen option, who answered and when. A session that starts tomorrow sees the answer without you repeating it, and so does a different assistant connected to the same workspace.
Read the decisions in this note. Carry on with the task each decided one unblocks, and stay within its scope.
Ask your own questions too
You can add a decision card yourself from the insert menu in the note editor. Use it to put a choice in front of a teammate, or to record a choice you want every assistant to work from.
What it does not do
Knotpad does not notify you about a new card or collect open cards in one list, so ask the assistant to tell you where it left the question. Answering is meant for people: Knotpad tells assistants never to answer for you, but a card is note text, and an assistant with Full edit on that note could change it.
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