Pulse User Guide

The quiet look at the whole shelf when you cannot decide.

A crate of hundreds hides the copies you have not touched. Pulse puts neglected records, streaks, genres, decades, and the notes you sent in one place. It is not a chart for the feed. It is how you see the collection the way a collector already thinks: what is quiet, what is loud, who might need a copy.

The four numbers

Open Pulse when Tonight feels stuck. Spins this month. Listening streak. Copies never played. Size of the crate. Unplayed is the stack still in shrink, or the one you meant to play in March.

Pulse with this month, streak, unplayed, in crate, and recommendations you sent
The four numbers, then notes you sent. Used, on their Tonight, or still waiting.

Recommendations you sent

Last ten here. Used stays in the count when a row leaves this list. Waiting drops after 90 days if nobody owns the copy. Hide a row if you are done looking at it. The count stays. Recommend User Guide.

Invites live on your account: send ten notes to a friend. If they join, they get those ten, and you get ten golden notes. We do not keep their address. We never send them anything but that letter. Notes User Guide.

Invite a friend for notes, then genre and decade mix of the crate
Invites sent, claimed, golden earned. Under that: how the shelf leans — genre and original release year, not the pressing.

How the shelf leans

Genres and decades show the shape of the crate — useful when you think you “have no jazz,” or that everything is 1970s. Decade is year released, not year pressed.

Neglected, and most played

Owned, loved enough to buy, then left on the shelf. Tap a cover and it becomes tonight. Most played is the other end: what actually got the needle.

The neglected crate of never-played albums and a most-played list
The neglected crate. Pull one tonight. Most played sits under that.

Why collectors open it

Pulse does not shuffle. It points at a spine — quiet too long, or played to death — and lets you pull it.