Desk note
Cold-wallet inventory habits
Rotation work invents phantom copies when devices and media stay unlabeled. A short inventory habit keeps the monitor honest.
Stable names beat clever names
Use dull labels: “home firebox paper,” “bank envelope metal,” “ops encrypted export.” Clever codes that only one person remembers break handoffs. Datalink Core worksheets prefer boring clarity.
Device vs. backup media
The signing device and the recovery material are different inventory rows. Mixing them on one line is how teams “rotate the wallet” without touching the copies that matter.
After any move
Apartment changes, office moves, and travel kits are the usual moments unlabeled USBs appear. Revisit the sheet within a week — Module 1 of the lab treats this as a first-class trigger for Wallet Backup Rotation Monitor.