# Core ideas

Status: stable · Checked against code: 2026-10-13 c31da22

PulsOne has a few ideas that run through every screen. Once you have them, each screen is easy.

## Projects are parts of your life

A **project** is a part of your life — a job, a product, a move, learning a language — not a
folder of tasks. It holds:

- **branches** (sub-projects, one level deep — a branch always belongs to its project),
- **sections**, **tasks** and their **steps**,
- its **ideas**, **notes** and an **Atlas** board,
- its **memory**: decisions with your reason, open questions, hypotheses, and a log of what
  changed.

A project can serve a **goal**, and can have its own AI in OnePuls (instructions and a
knowledge base). A project that holds only notes is still a real project. A project you put
on hold folds away with its branches until you bring it back.

## Every thought finds its place

You never have to file anything. A thought you capture — in the Island, in Focus, mid-session,
in a Razbor, from Telegram or your own AI — goes to the **archivist**. It reads the thought and
decides where it belongs across *all* your projects. Decisions, questions and thoughts become
the project's **History**, ideas go to its **Ideas**, and something to find out becomes a
*Find out* task. Only what it cannot settle — not sure where, two decisions that disagree, a
likely duplicate — waits in the project's **Inbox** for you.

- You can see where every thought went and move it with one click.
- Thoughts from a focus session wait about ten minutes before they are filed, so you can
  correct the place.
- From what you said, OnePuls may suggest a step, a task or an idea — with the reason. Nothing
  changes until you apply it.
- A checkable assumption becomes a **hypothesis** (*I assume / how to check / outcome*) on
  the project, never a loose note.

The project's **Overview** and **Full project history** are built only from what was actually
recorded — so a project you return to after a year still tells you where you stopped.

## Razbor: from chaos to one clear start

When your head is full, press **Clear your head** in OnePuls. The chat starts silent: say
everything, as long as you need. Then **Sort it out**: OnePuls sorts what you said by kind,
checks it understood you, asks only the questions that change the plan, and — when you ask —
lays out one direction with small first steps as a card you tick and assemble. Big topics wait
on the shelf *Waiting to be sorted*; a reflection can become a note; a conclusion about
yourself can go to *About me*. The razbor ends with a short summary you can keep.

The same thing runs for a day: drop thoughts into the day's **Thought draft**, and in the
evening the **Day recap** sorts them against what you actually did.

## Your day

- **A task's day is its deadline. Its hour is its block in the Calendar.** A deadline without
  a time sits in the day's "all day" row.
- **Focus is not a date.** It is the short list of what you are working on now. Putting a task
  into Focus or taking it out never moves its deadline.
- **A session** records real minutes on its task; what you say at its end goes to the
  project's History.
- **Reminders** ring in Telegram, at their time; meetings get a notice 10 minutes before.
  Nothing else pings you.

## OnePuls lives inside PulsOne

OnePuls is not a separate chatbot. It works with the same data you see on every screen, so a
task it creates is simply a task in Tasks.

- **Wherever you are.** The OnePuls page, the island at the top of any screen (Ctrl/⌘ + `.`),
  a global hotkey in the desktop app, and Telegram — one OnePuls, one memory.
- **It knows where you are.** Asked "add it here", it uses the screen you have open and says
  what it assumed.
- **It shows what it did.** Each change gets a receipt line under the answer, and every change
  is in the **Log** with undo.
- **It knows you because you let it.** *About me* shows every fact it keeps, where it came
  from, and lets you fix or delete it. A note you mark private stays private.
- **What you can do, it can do** — on the core screens. On the optional modules (Sleep, Mood,
  Accounting, Pantry) and Pomodoro it can read and show you the way, but does not change
  anything. It never touches billing, sign-in, e-mail, password, the Telegram link or
  onboarding.
- **Two voices.** A fast everyday voice, and a stronger one only when you ask for it (the
  Advisor, the Deep mode, the plan step of a review). Your words alone never switch it.