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.

The optional Telegram delivery reads this same ranked deck and shows its first five cards for a shorter mobile presentation. It does not run a second ranking policy. A paper can appear again on another day when relevance, source results, and your feedback are unchanged; Pulse does not promise daily novelty.

PulseCard¶

Each card in the deck shows:

Paper title and authors
A short relevance excerpt
Action buttons for rating and opening the paper

When JARVIS has not yet learned from enough of your feedback, the deck labels its ordering as Basic ranking (learning from your feedback). Once a learned model is available, that caption is no longer shown; the rest of the deck remains usable in either state.

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 today's deck has not been regenerated and the one shown is from an earlier day, a StaleBadge appears in the deck header (not on individual cards) to signal that the recommendations may not reflect your most recent reading activity or topic configuration. Clicking it opens a sheet with per-source diagnostics and a Generate now button to request a fresh deck.

Telegram carries the same distinction in plain text: it identifies a current or earlier deck and its age, states when ranking used reduced signals, and labels each card's evidence check as verified, a reported confidence level, unverified, or not reported. These labels describe available evidence; they do not independently establish that a paper's claims are correct.

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. The rating feeds back into the Pulse recommendation model to surface similar papers in future decks; it does not add the paper to your Library.
Thumbs down — marks the paper as not relevant. It is hidden from future decks for 60 days. A topic that collects repeated thumbs-down (5 or more within 90 days) is dampened: its positive similarity signal is halved — never boosted — when scoring future candidates, so a topic you keep rejecting quietly stops dominating your deck.
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.

My Day & Home — today's Pulse preview and research focus.
Settings — configure the Pulse schedule and automation (§IV System).
Papers & Discover — papers saved via Pulse appear in your saved papers.