Guides

Start from something finished.

The blank page is the hardest place to begin. So wherever you go to add something — a dashboard, a skill, a routine, a specialist — a small shelf of ready-made ones is sitting right there. Take the closest, and make it your own by asking.

01The idea

A shelf on every add screen

The point is not the shelf. It is seeing what is possible.

You know 1Presence could keep an eye on your training, or sweep your inbox each morning — but imagining the first version of anything is the expensive part. So the Catalog puts finished examples where the blank page would be. On the screens where you add a dashboard, a skill, a routine or a specialist agent, a shelf of ready-made ones sits alongside your own. Browse them, open one up, and take the one closest to what you meant.

What you take is a copy that becomes yours — drawing on your own data from the moment it lands, and yours to reshape by asking, like anything else you own here. The shelf turns “I could do that” into “I want that one”.

Dashboards

Real layouts with real shapes — a training week, money at a glance — ready to point at your own data.

Skills

Patterns worth stealing — a meeting-notes filer, a capture that listens for things you mention in passing.

Routines

A morning inbox tidy, a weekly review — recurring work, pre-shaped, scheduled only when you say so.

Specialists

A ready-formed team member — named, styled, equipped — you can adopt and then make your own.

02Copy & shape

Take the closest one, then make it yours

The loop is always the same: take a ready-made piece, then shape it by talking until it fits. Because what you took is a copy drawing on your own data, it is useful the moment it lands — and every change you make to it is just another thing you ask for.

Browse and take
Show me what ready-made dashboards there are.

Opens the shelf of dashboard examples, each ready to copy and point at your own data.

Take the training-week dashboard and use my activity.

Copies that dashboard into yours, drawing on your own data from the start.

Is there a ready-made skill for filing meeting notes?

Surfaces the closest skill on the shelf, ready to copy and adjust.

Make it your own
On that dashboard, group my spending by category instead.

Reshapes your copy — the ready-made one on the shelf is untouched.

Change the weekly-review routine to run on Fridays and include what I shipped.

Adjusts the routine you took, leaving the original as it was.

Rename this specialist to Scout and give it a drier tone.

Restyles your copy of the agent so it fits how you work.

03Kits

A whole corner of your life, at once

Some of the best things on the shelf come as a Kit — a coordinated set built to work together over one corner of your life. Not four separate things to wire up, but one thing in four parts, already connected.

Add Home Finances once and you get the lot: a skill that quietly notes the bills and income you mention in conversation, the ledger it writes them to, a dashboard that shows where things stand, and a weekly tidy that keeps it all current — with a careful specialist to run it. Mention a bill in passing on Tuesday; find it on the dashboard by Friday. Nothing to configure, because the pieces already know about each other.

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A skill listens
Catches the bills and income you mention in conversation.
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A record holds
Each entry lands in a tidy ledger — typed, totalled, yours.
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A dashboard shows
Spend, income and upcoming bills, drawn from the ledger.
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A routine tends
A weekly tidy keeps it current and raises a card when something needs you.

Take the whole thing at once, or just the pieces you want — the rest stay one tap away. And everything a Kit gives you wears a small tag showing where it came from, so you always know which pieces belong together.

How adding a Kit goes

  1. 1

    Describe the corner of your life

    Say what you want handled — “keep track of our home finances” — or browse the shelf on any add screen.

  2. 2

    Take the Kit, whole or in parts

    Add all the pieces at once, or just the ones you want; the rest stay a tap away for later.

  3. 3

    It arrives already wired

    The skill, the record, the dashboard and the routine land connected to each other, drawing on your own data — nothing to configure.

  4. 4

    Shape it, and it is yours

    Adjust any piece by asking. Everything a Kit added is tagged with where it came from, so you can see what belongs together.

04Yours to keep

Keep it, remove it cleanly, and let it improve

If a Kit turns out not to be for you, remove it — and you choose exactly which pieces go and which stay. Maybe the routine was the wrong rhythm but the ledger earned its keep. Removing a Kit takes away the machinery, never your data: anything you recorded along the way stays yours.

And the shelf keeps improving underneath you. When a piece you have taken gets better — a sharper skill, a better-shaped dashboard — the improvement can reach your copy, but it never overwrites the changes that made it yours, and it never touches your data. You choose the manner of it, too: updates can apply on their own, ask you first, or wait until you come looking.

Ready-made, then yours

Start from something finished, and make it your own.

A shelf of working examples on every add screen; Kits that stand up a whole life area at once, already wired; and improvements that reach your copy without ever touching your changes or your data.

Common questions

What is the difference between the Catalog and a Kit?

The Catalog is the shelf of individual ready-made pieces — a single dashboard, skill, routine or specialist. A Kit is a coordinated set of those pieces built to work together over one corner of your life, taken whole or in parts.

When I take something from the shelf, is it shared or my own?

It is your own copy — it draws on your own data from the moment it lands, and reshaping it never touches the ready-made original on the shelf.

If I remove a Kit, do I lose what it collected?

No. Removing a Kit takes away the machinery — the skill, dashboard and routine — but never your data. Anything you recorded, like your ledger entries, stays yours. You can also keep some pieces and remove others.

Do catalog pieces update after I have changed them?

They can improve underneath you, but an update never overwrites the changes that made a piece yours, and never touches your data. You decide whether updates apply on their own, ask first, or wait until you look.

Take one down from the shelf.

The fastest way to see what 1Presence can do for a corner of your life is to start from a Kit that already does it.

Everything a Kit adds is tagged, reshapeable, and removable — and your data always stays yours.