19:40 says "passable," 20:15 says "approach road flooded" — find the two reports that disagree about the same bridge before the briefing

What piles up in the folder

For the three days after the typhoon warning goes out, files in wildly different formats keep landing in the center's shared folder. Districts upload HWP documents, the fire service uploads logs typed up from radio traffic, and the volunteer center uploads spreadsheets. The same incident gets written down by different departments in different files.

• District situation reports (HWP) — one every two hours from each of 18 districts. Past 200 of them since the warning.
• Fire radio logs — text an operator types up from radio traffic. Around 300 lines a day, and one line is one incident.
• Weather-service and ministry bulletins — advance advisories and road-closure notices, as PDFs. Roughly 20 a day.
• Volunteer-center spreadsheet — capacity at 11 shelters, plus blanket, water, and generator stock. One sheet, overwritten with each day's numbers.
• Call-center summaries — a document bundled up every 30 minutes. Flooding calls and power-outage calls sit mixed in one table.

How it works today

Today's procedure is a person copying things onto a whiteboard. Two operators skim the last two hours of reports, update the entries on the status board, then photograph the board and paste it into the briefing deck. The board has room for one line per entry, so the Dongbu Bridge cell holds only the most recent report anyone read.

It breaks when the two files come from different departments at different times. The operator who read the 19:40 Dongbu report and wrote "passable" on the board is not the operator who read the 20:15 fire radio log. That the two reports disagree is written down in neither file — only someone who opened both would know.

I read the 20:15 fire report too. It just never occurred to me to go back to the 19:40 district report.

How you set it up

Setup takes about one briefing's worth of time, roughly 20 minutes. Drop in the whole shared folder, register the emergency-response vocabulary once, and reconcile the different names for the same bridge.

How you ask

"every report on Dongbu Bridge, in time order"
→ 9 reports in a table. 19:40 "passable" (Dongbu district situation report #3 · line 12),
   20:15 "approach road flooded, entry blocked" (Fire radio log 20:00 · line 41).
   The two lines come back stacked, with the app flagging them as
   disagreeing and waiting for confirmation. Until you confirm, nothing changes.

"which of the open shelters have no mention of a generator?"
→ 4 of the 11 shelters. Each row carries the original sentence that said
   the shelter was open, plus a "Volunteer-center supply status · line 7" link.
   Not a blank generator cell — 4 shelters where no report mentions a generator at all.

"who decided to close Dongbu Bridge?"
→ "Dongbu Bridge fully closed as of 21:05" — attributed on the sentence
   to the Disaster Safety Division director.

This gathers up because Dongbu Bridge is a single point in the knowledge graph (⌘⇧G). HWP report, radio log, or spreadsheet — every sentence that named that bridge attaches to that point. On the entity page, hover a connection and the original sentence that stated it is quoted as "{note} · line {n}", and clicking a note link in the answer opens the source document. In front of the mayor you can say "this is the 20:15 fire report" and put that exact line on screen.

What changes