zephyr

The Zephyr Scheme

"Zephyr" is a sentinel word used to tag sourdough bake voice memos.

Each voice memo related to a bake begins with "Zephyr N", where N is the day of the month the bake started.

Example: a bake started on May 28th uses the key "Zephyr 28" for all memos across the full bake cycle.

The sentinel word "Zephyr" was chosen because it is rare in baking speech, two syllables, and phonetically distinctive — speech-to-text will not confuse it with a date, number, or common word.

Multiple Bakes on the Same Day

When multiple bakes start on the same day, a numeric suffix after a hyphen distinguishes them.

"Zephyr 3" means the first bake on the 3rd of the current month — the -1 suffix is implied and may be omitted.

"Zephyr 3-2" means the second bake on the 3rd of the current month.

"Zephyr 5-5" said in May means the fifth bake started on May 5th.