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I do think it's heavily implied that even if there are clues towards there being a reset, most characters will automatically ignore it. Hence why anytime Ayane or someone else brings up the reset, or something odd, it gets ignored by mostly everyone. Most characters are simply set to ignore things that don't fit the script they've been assigned.Hmm I was on the premise that any physical clue deliberately left to remind themselves about the existence of resets will be gone with the reset or got scribbled by angels, especially if a Sensei met his early game over and everything got hard reset to square zero. Even if these clues somehow lived through a reset when the owner didn’t, I imagine they would just be weirded out and still couldn’t piece the lost puzzle together themselves, kinda like Futaba’s reaction to her unexpected poem (I just personally feel like it’s too anticlimactic to be a solution for reset lol)
However, this can still kinda work if Sekai's journal somehow already had some super duper secrets about this strange world we now dwell in forever; and Ami would get "updated" if she found it within the cycle.
In fact this prompted something else in my mind: Maya's gamer guide for day1 Sensei (the one item that may actually fit your description).
If we assume that a hard reset sends you back to absolute square zero, why wasn't that creepy diary gone every time an iteration die? It's not something the OG Sensei already had and we already know this diary didn't even exist during the first few cycles.
So it's either a special item that lived through all hard and soft resets despite not being in his room from the very beginning because...Maya, or Maya just finished hauling ass handcrafting a creepy journal and putting it on your table when we "first" met her in A New You.
On the other hand, it seems that only people are actually affected by the reset most of the time. The city itself tends to follow it's own logic, so, items themselves likely do as well. Maya has mentioned new buildings even tend to pop up. Not to mention, the other school collapsing and still being collapsed also seems to show that resets don't necessarily reset the city.