Circle, Keep, Hold, N/G — what a mark writes, and what it does not carry

One tap marks the take. Three columns change.

The four states are Circle · Keep · Hold · N/G. They are a decision about the take, not a rating of the performance.
Marking a take writes its state in one place and reads consistently everywhere later — the row you mark at 14:20 is the row that shows the same state at wrap. No re-typing, no second list to keep in sync.
In the spreadsheet you hand over: the CSV carries the state as its own column, alongside a separate circle flag. Two columns, because those are two questions.
In the ALE, both questions now have their own column: Rating writes the mark text — Circle, Keep, Hold, N/G — and Circled take writes TRUE or FALSE. A take left unmarked leaves Rating empty rather than being given a value.
The boundary stays where it was: those are columns we defined ourselves, and we have run no import acceptance against any editing system. A receiving system may read them as free fields or ignore them, so the mark travels in the ALE and in the Daily Log, and still gets said out loud to the editor. What changed is that the document no longer stays silent about it.

A mark is a decision about the take. It is not a promise about what someone downstream will do with it.