Chaos Mode — Your safety net

Feel like everything piled up and you don’t know where to start? Chaos Mode doesn’t ask you to organize — it asks you to choose what to save first. It’s Monolith’s maximum protection level: a step-by-step protocol for when your brain says “I can’t handle it all”.

What for? Intervene when there’s severe overload. Replace paralysis with a concrete action plan: these projects, this time, now.

How to activate it? Two ways: (1) automatically when a task is over 3 days overdue — the Collision appears, a full-screen overlay you can’t dismiss without deciding; (2) manually from the Sidebar. Once active, you choose projects, assign minutes, and work with a Pulse for each one.

Philosophy: When mental chaos is at its peak, structure needs to be at its peak too. It’s not a “hard mode” — it’s your safety net. It’s there to hold you up when you can’t hold yourself.

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Embers — Your quick capture

Ideas don’t warn you. They show up when you’re in the middle of something and if you don’t jot them down in 2 seconds, they’re gone forever. Embers is that space: you write, save, move on. Decide later.

What for? Capture ideas without interrupting your workflow. They’re not processed on the spot — saved for later.

How to use it? Two ways: (1) Sidebar > Embers, (2) Ctrl+K from any screen. Type and Enter saves. Each item can be converted to a task (opens the modal with text preloaded) or deleted.

Philosophy: Working memory is like wet paper: what you write gets erased in seconds. Embers is the dry paper.