Hi @jlweiss, thanks for the post. We 
emojis here at 
as well, so 
this request. If you haven’t already, it would be great to share your use case with our Product team directly by submitting an idea on our roadmap page.
A couple of workarounds come to mind - you could use a Tags field, and have people tag the post with their name to show they’ve read the note. This would probably be the simplest, though not as fun as 
Another approach could be to use markdown formatting to make lists of people who need to weigh in, with checkboxes next to them. Then someone can just edit the Note description (permissions allowing) and add an “x” by their name to indicate that it is done. A few more clicks involved with this approach, but it looks neat.
Here’s what the markdown looks like when editing:
Hope that helps. Would love to hear any other ideas people have for lightweight ways to approach this question.