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Pulse

The Pulse page at /pulse shows your daily recommendation deck — a curated set of papers selected by the Pulse engine based on your configured research topics, reading history, and ratings.

The Pulse deck

PulseDeck

The deck is a collection of PulseCards, each representing a recommended paper. Cards are generated in the background by a scheduled job (configured in Settings → Automation or Settings → Pulse) and are available when you open the page. If no deck has been generated yet, a prompt invites you to generate one manually.

PulseCard

Each card in the deck shows:

  • Paper title and authors
  • A short relevance excerpt
  • The StaleBadge (see below)
  • Action buttons for rating and opening the paper

WhyPopover

Clicking the Why? indicator on a card opens the WhyPopover, which explains the relevance score for that card — which of your research topics matched, what signals drove the recommendation (e.g. topic keyword overlap, citation proximity, past ratings), and the numerical relevance score.

StaleBadge

If a card was generated more than a configurable number of days ago, a StaleBadge appears on it to signal that the recommendation may not reflect your most recent reading activity or topic configuration.

SourceTimeline

Below or alongside the deck, the SourceTimeline shows a chronological breakdown of when the papers in the current deck were published, giving you a sense of the recency distribution of your recommendations.

Generating a new deck

Click the Generate new deck button to request a fresh Pulse deck. Generation runs as a background job; the page shows a progress indicator while the job is running. Depending on the number of papers in your library and the complexity of your topics, generation may take a few seconds to a minute.

Once complete, the new deck replaces the previous one.

Generation can also happen automatically on a schedule. See Settings (§IV System → Automation and Pulse sections) to configure the schedule.

Rating cards

Each card has thumbs-up and thumbs-down rating buttons:

  • Thumbs up — marks the paper as relevant. It is added to your Library and the rating feeds back into the Pulse recommendation model to surface similar papers in future decks.
  • Thumbs down — marks the paper as not relevant. It is hidden from future decks.
  • Save — saves the paper to your Library without a quality rating.

Opening a paper

Clicking the paper title or a dedicated Open button on a card navigates to the Paper Detail page for that paper. If the paper has not yet been fully processed (downloaded, chunked, summarised), you can trigger those steps from the Paper Detail actions rail.

My Day preview

A condensed preview of today's Pulse deck also appears on the My Day page (TodaysPulseSection). The preview shows the top-rated or most relevant cards; click through to /pulse for the full deck.