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General Usage - ONA.UNO Docs

The interface at a glance

ONA.UNO fits into a single window with four areas that work together:

  • Left: the timeline — all your items grouped by day and daypart. This is where you browse, select, and navigate.
  • Right: the sidebar — switches between Summary, Original, and Chat. Whatever you select in the timeline shows up here.
  • Top: the toolbar — search, Set switching, and quick actions.
  • Bottom: the status bar — processing progress, AI health, cost, and your Advanced AI action quota.

If you’re new to ONA.UNO, start with How ONA.UNO Works — it explains how these pieces connect.

Where to go next

This page is an orientation hub. Jump to whichever topic you need:

  • How the interaction model works — browse, search, inspect, chat as one connected flow: How ONA.UNO Works
  • Timeline and summaries — how selecting items, days, and dayparts drives what you see: Timeline and Summaries
  • Sources — adding folders, web clippings, email, Obsidian vaults, and Feedbin: Sources
  • Search — text, semantic, fuzzy, and advanced query syntax: Search
  • Tag consolidation — cleaning up near-duplicate AI tags: Tag Consolidation
  • Scope and context — how ONA.UNO decides what chat and summaries apply to: Scope and Context
  • Chat — asking questions across your documents, web clippings, emails, and notes: Chat
  • Status bar — understanding processing progress, health indicators, and costs: Status Bar

Tips for getting the most from ONA.UNO

Let it process. After adding or changing sources, give ONA.UNO a few minutes to work through the pipeline — generating titles, tags, summaries, and embeddings. Once that’s done, search and chat become dramatically more useful because they have rich metadata to work with.

Combine search and selection. Search narrows your timeline to matching items, and then clicking a day or daypart header gives you a focused summary for just that slice. This is one of the most powerful patterns in ONA.UNO: topic filtering meets time-based review.

Use chat for synthesis, not just lookup. If you already know which item you need, search is faster. But when you want to connect ideas across multiple documents, web clippings, and emails — or ask “what changed over time?” — chat is the right tool. It reads across items and gives you a synthesized answer with citations.

Verify in the Original when accuracy matters. Summaries are great for scanning and getting the gist, but they’re AI-generated interpretations. When precision matters — quotes, numbers, exact wording — switch to the Original pane to see the source material as-is.

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