A Spatial Grammar for Work State
Context Corolla, Identify, and Release & Route across Now, Next, Delegated, Review, Blocked, and Dormant
Task systems usually represent work as lists, boards, or calendars. These surfaces are useful but often force the user to translate their lived relationship to work into generic statuses. Context Corolla proposes a compact spatial grammar organized around six practical states—Now, Next, Delegated, Review, Blocked, and Dormant—with Identify at the center and Release & Route as the voice/action transition.
The Corolla is not a project database. It is a protected projection over one Project Core. Rotating or selecting a spoke changes focus and prepares a bounded context; it does not silently authorize work. Items retain provenance, evidence, authority, and project identity. The same state can be rendered as radial, list, keyboard, mobile, or accessible views.
The research question is whether stable spatial state reduces resumption cost, mode confusion, and context reconstruction while preserving the speed of lists. The system remains a specified interaction architecture with runnable prototype lineage; broad productivity uplift is not claimed.
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d13-context-corolla
Benchmarks
b09-workpage-os
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