Atlas5 Guide

What Atlas5 is

Atlas5 is a personal map of your life and work records. You choose which parts of your life to include, so your Atlas can be broad or selective. A record is one entry you deliberately add to Atlas5 — for example a note, a link, a summary of a conversation, a draft, or the metadata of a photo or file.

In the current release, Atlas5 keeps these records inside this browser. When you choose a photo or a file, it reads the metadata only — name, type, approximate size and date — and never the content of that photo or file. Nothing is uploaded and nothing on your device is changed.

Five key terms

These five words appear throughout the app. Read them once and the rest of this guide will be straightforward.

• Record — one entry you deliberately add to Atlas5: a note, a link, a conversation summary, a draft, or the metadata of a photo or file.
• District — a top-level area of your Atlas, such as Home & Family, Work, Studies, Art or Property. You may create as many districts as are useful, rename them, reorder them, hide them and restore them.
• Rukon — a focused space inside a district for one continuing subject: a project, a course, a property or a pursuit.
• Life Station — a chapter of your life organised around a period, a place, a role, a relationship or a pursuit.
• Inbox — the temporary waiting list that holds a newly saved record until you review where it belongs. It is a list on screen, not a folder on your device.

Getting started, step by step

1. 1Open Map5. Choose one of the starting structures, or choose Start from scratch to build your own.
2. 2Create or rename districts so the map reflects the parts of your life and work you want to include. There is no required number — create as many as are useful to you.
3. 3Open Capture and choose exactly what kind of record you are adding: a note, a link, a conversation summary, a draft, a voice note, a photo or a file record.
4. 4Save the record. It now appears in the Inbox — the waiting list described above, not a physical folder.
5. 5Open the Inbox and review the record: choose or confirm the Rukon or Life Station where it belongs, then approve it.
6. 6Later, find approved records through Library and Archive, and see what is coming next in Plan.

Capture

Capture means deliberately adding one new record to your Atlas. Nothing is collected automatically; every record exists because you typed or chose it.

The Capture screen offers exactly these kinds of record:

• Note — a thought, a decision, a reminder or a line of context that you type.
• Link — a web address together with a title and any details you type.
• Conversation — a summary or outcome that you type or paste yourself. In the current release Atlas5 has no access to your phone, email or messaging.
• Draft — text you are still developing.
• Voice note — a placeholder only: you type the words you would have said. Atlas5 does not record or transcribe audio.
• Photo — you choose a photo yourself, and the current release stores its metadata only: name, type, approximate size and date.
• File record — you choose a file yourself, and the current release stores its metadata only: name, type, approximate size and date.

How saving a capture works

1. 1Choose the kind of record you are adding.
2. 2Give the record a title you will recognise later.
3. 3Add details if they help; this field is optional.
4. 4Press Save capture.
5. 5The record appears in the Inbox waiting list.
6. 6Review the record in the Inbox to decide where in your Atlas it belongs.

Worked example: personal life

You want to keep a note about a repair at home. Open Capture, choose Note, and title it “Kitchen leak — plumber visit 18 Aug”. Save it; the record appears in the Inbox. Review it there and choose a Rukon such as Home Maintenance inside a Home & Family district, then approve it. Afterwards you can find it in the Archive.

The district and Rukon named here are only an illustration. Atlas5 has no fixed categories; you create and name your own.

Worked example: work and study

You find a useful research article. Open Capture, choose Link, give it a clear title and paste the web address and any details. Save it; the record appears in the Inbox. Review it there and choose an appropriate Rukon, for instance a research project you created, then approve it. Afterwards you can find it in the Archive or through search.

Atlas5 does not open or read the article. It stores the title, the address and the details you typed.

Build your Atlas

Atlas5 is organised into districts. A district is one major area of your life or work. There is no required number of districts — create as many as are useful, for example Home & Family, Work, Studies, Travel, Art, Property, Health or Research.

You can rename a district, change its colour, icon or image, reorder it, hide it and restore it at any time. Renaming does not disconnect the records already inside it: Atlas5 keeps a permanent internal identity for every district, and it keeps earlier names so that search still finds your work.

Map5

Map5 is the visual overview of all your active districts — life and work together. Each district appears as a card that can hold the Rukon spaces and Life Stations belonging to it, together with the number of records inside and what is coming next.

The picture on a district card is either an image you assign yourself or one of the designed images supplied with the app. Atlas5 never interprets the content of your own pictures.

Rukon spaces

A Rukon is the lasting home of one continuing subject inside a district — a project, a course, a property or a pursuit. Open a Rukon to see the records kept there, its position in your Atlas, its milestones, and any versions you confirmed yourself.

Inbox and Review

Every saved record waits in the Inbox until you decide its destination — the chosen home for that record inside your Atlas, normally a Rukon or a Life Station.

Approving a record only changes how Atlas5 classifies it. It never moves, renames or alters the original file on your device.

1. 1Open a waiting record and press Review capture.
2. 2Read the suggested destination and the plain reason behind it. Suggestions come from simple rules that compare the title and the metadata you provided.
3. 3Confirm the destination, change it, defer the decision, or discard the record.

Organise

Organise is a preview workspace for structure and migration. Choose a Rukon or project to see a proposed folder structure and suggested destinations for its file records. In the migration table you explicitly choose files, review the proposed district, Rukon and section for each one, change the proposal, confirm the mappings you accept, or exclude a row.

Here, migration means reviewing how the metadata of the files you selected would be represented inside your Atlas — not moving files. Confirming a mapping creates or classifies an Atlas record; it never moves, renames or alters the original file on your device.

Plan

Plan is the time view of your Atlas. It gathers the milestones from your Rukon spaces and separates them into Upcoming, Overdue and Done. If captures are still waiting in the Inbox, Plan also shows a link back to review them.

Library and Archive

Library is the navigation hub: it gathers every view of your records and the related tools in one place.

Archive is the searchable list of approved records. It offers filters for district, year, Rukon, source and kind, plus text search, and it shows the full location of each record inside your Atlas along with where it came from.

Duplicate Review

Possible duplicates are grouped by file name and approximate size only. Atlas5 does not compare file contents. You can mark a group as reviewed to hide it in this browser; nothing is deleted.

Portfolio

Portfolio gathers selected work into collections. Each entry is a reference to a record you already approved, with an optional caption; removing the reference here never removes the record itself.

Life Stations

A Life Station is a chapter of your life organised around a period, a place, a role, a relationship or a pursuit. Stations sit beside projects and courses and carry their own description, timeline, people and threads.

Knowledge Archive

The Knowledge Archive holds the decisions and working sessions behind Atlas5, searchable and ordered by date.

Search and continuity

Search in the Archive matches the titles of your records, the names of Rukon spaces and the names of districts — including the earlier names of a district you renamed. The Home screen shows recent continuity: what you captured, approved or confirmed in this browser.

Arabic and English

Use the EN / العربية switch in the header. Arabic turns the whole interface right-to-left. The words you write in your own records are never translated.

Privacy: what stays in this browser

Atlas5 stores its records in this browser only. It reads only files you pick yourself, and keeps their metadata — name, type, approximate size, date you provide — never their content.

Planned connected capability: Social Guardian

This is not available in the current release. Atlas5 has no social connections today; the paragraphs below describe a direction under consideration, not a feature you can use or a promise of delivery.

In a future connected version, a person could explicitly connect selected social accounts such as YouTube, Facebook or Instagram, where the platform's own permissions allow it. Access would be permission-based, granular, and revocable at any time, and disconnecting an account would end that access.

• Guardian mode would be monitoring and assessment first: surfacing important mentions, the person's own public posts and comments, unusual account or security signals, and content that may raise reputational or safety concerns.
• Its default role would be to alert and explain — never to post, message, comment or act as the person.
• Any future blocking, removal, moderation or security action would require separate explicit permission and would depend on what each platform's interface actually allows.
• Atlas5 would not claim to prevent hacking or guarantee safety. The intent is to help detect risk signals and bring them to the person's attention.

What Atlas5 does not do in the current release

• In the current release it does not scan your device or any folder.
• In the current release it does not read the content of your files or photos.
• In the current release it does not move, rename, delete, encrypt or upload anything.
• In the current release it does not connect to email, phone, messaging, banking or cloud drives.
• In the current release there are no accounts, no sync and no backup, so your records live in this browser only.
• It never restructures your Atlas on its own; every change is made by you.

Troubleshooting

• Nothing appears: the sample Atlas can be restored with Reset sample preview at the top of the page.
• Records disappeared: clearing your browser data removes them, because there is no cloud copy.
• A district looks empty: it may be hidden — restore it from Customise districts on Map5.
• Arabic text looks cut off: refresh the page after switching language.