Key Concepts
The words we use, defined.
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A few terms come up throughout Nudgly. Knowing them makes everything else clearer.
- Assistant / personality
The character you talk to. You pick one; you can switch anytime. Same abilities, different style.
- Task
Something to be done. You can complete it yourself or hand it to the assistant.
- Nudge
Something the assistant noticed and is offering to handle, shown on your Overview with a one-tap action.
- Workflow
An automation the assistant runs for you when a trigger happens — a time arrives, or an event occurs. The assistant does the steps. Example: every morning, pull your calendar and send you a brief.
- Routine
A ready-made checklist you start from, like a morning routine of wake, news, workout, breakfast. You edit the steps and add them to your tasks for today or tomorrow. You do the steps; they do not repeat on their own.
- Trigger
The thing that starts a workflow. Either a time (every Monday at 9am) or an event (a meeting ends, a task is completed).
- Approval
Before the assistant sends an email, pays, books, or deletes something, it shows you an approval card and waits for your OK. This happens in every mode, even Full access.
- Integration
An app you connect (Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar, Slack, Notion) so the assistant can work in it.
- Action
A single thing the assistant does, like reading your calendar or drafting an email.
- Credits
What actions are paid with. Bigger jobs use more credits than small ones. Your plan includes credits each month, and the free trial gives you a daily amount.
- The assistant’s computer
A browser your assistant runs for you, for websites that have no app to connect. It can fill in forms, book, and pay there, and it asks you first before it books or pays.
The difference between a workflow and a routine matters: if the assistant does the work, it is a workflow. If you do the work, it is a routine.
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