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How the Pulse screen is organized
Weekday view and daily timeline
The weekday view at the top shows artwork for Monday through Sunday and a timeline for each date. The timeline lists active, unarchived rhythms in order of start time.
Each day also shows the span from its first start time to its last end time, the number of rhythms, and a summary of the categories and notification devices included.
Categories and card areas
When you change categories, the status card and rhythm cards below are filtered to the selected category. The weekday view at the top continues to show the overall flow of all available rhythms, regardless of the selected category.
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See the current and next rhythms
NOW, NEXT, and DONE
- NOW: Shows the rhythm in progress and its time range.
- NEXT: Shows the next rhythm scheduled to start today and its start time.
- DONE: Appears when no rhythm is in progress and no more rhythms remain today.
DONE does not mean that you checked off and completed a task. It means that, based on the current time, there are no more rhythms today. Pulse shows the flow of recurring time rather than a checklist.
From TODAY to REST
Today’s rhythms appear in TODAY, tomorrow’s in TOMORROW, and later rhythms in NEXT. Active rhythms without a time rule and rhythms you make inactive appear in REST on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
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What you can include in a rhythm
You can set the following for each Pulse rhythm:
- A name, short note, category, and secondary line for the card
- A photo, artwork, or color for the card background
- Recurring days and one or more start and end time rules
- Alerts before the start, at the start, before the end, and at the end
- The Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch devices that receive alerts
- Whether the rhythm rests on public holidays
- A deadline Switch to start at the rhythm’s start time
You cannot save a rhythm if its schedule overlaps another active rhythm or another time rule in the same rhythm. Adjust the overlapping day or time, then save again.
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Rest on days outside your routine
From a card, you can turn off alerts for one occurrence or rest that rhythm from today through Sunday. If you make a rhythm inactive, it remains in REST until you make it active again.
For a change that applies to multiple rhythms, such as a vacation or half-day, add an exception for one date, a date range, or part of a day in Pulse Settings. If you set default active hours and lunch hours, Pulse can calculate morning and afternoon half-day ranges from them.
Automatic rest on public holidays applies only after you choose an activity region and turn on Pause This Rhythm on Holidays for each applicable rhythm. Holiday availability can vary by supported region, network connection, and cached data on the device.
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Connect with Switch
You can connect one deadline Switch to a Pulse rhythm. When all requirements are met, the Switch starts at the rhythm’s start time and uses that occurrence’s end time as its deadline.
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Use Pulse across devices and surfaces
- Mac, iPhone, and iPad: View the weekday screen and timeline, and create and manage rhythms, exceptions, public holidays, and backgrounds.
- Widgets: Show the NOW, NEXT, or DONE state and rhythm times, and request updates around start and end times. The system determines when the widget actually refreshes.
- Live Activities: On supported iPhone and iPad devices, show the time remaining and progress for a rhythm when permissions and device and network conditions are met.
- Apple Watch: Uses Pulse data received from iPhone to show NOW, NEXT, DONE, and today’s rhythms, and lets you turn alerts for a specific occurrence off or on. You cannot create or edit rhythms in the Watch app.
Selecting notification devices does not guarantee that an alert appears immediately on every device. Each selected device needs the latest Pulse data, and notifications must be allowed for OneCentrate in system settings before that device can schedule alerts.