Common questions.

A live 0–100 score that summarises your current workload pressure across six risk dimensions. It updates in real time as your tasks, meetings, and interruptions change. As history builds, CogniSource can compare today’s pressure with your usual workload pattern.

Six signals computed from your workspace data, each grounded in peer-reviewed research: SPOF Risk (solo-owned work with no backup), Capacity Overrun (execution burden against sustainable capacity), Dependency Debt (blocked work aging without resolution), Context Switching (attention fragmentation from project spread and interruptions), Burnout Velocity (sustained overload without recovery), Recovery Buffer (forward room to absorb unplanned work). See the Research page for all 40 citations.

Most tools help you organise and track work. CogniSource does that too, but it also measures the cognitive cost of that work. Every task, deadline, meeting, and interruption feeds into six research-backed risk indicators and a live Pressure Index. No other personal productivity tool computes a multi-factor cognitive-risk score from your own data, grounded in peer-reviewed research. Most tools give you a list. CogniSource tells you what that list is doing to you.

CogniSource does not ask you to rate how you feel. It computes pressure from the structure of your work. Self-reported stress can be influenced by sleep, health, and many factors beyond workload; tasks, deadlines, meetings, interruptions, and dependencies provide direct evidence of the work itself.

In your browser. CogniSource is local-first: your tasks, notes, projects, meetings, and scores never leave your device unless you choose to save a backup to a folder you control. We do not store your workspace data on our servers.

No. There is no manager dashboard, no organisation view, no team rollup. Nothing about how you work is ever shared with anyone or sold. CogniSource was built for you, not for your employer.

Private items are hidden behind a local PIN privacy lock and removed from the normal view. They are excluded from broad AI context. If you deliberately run an AI action on a private task or note, CogniSource asks for a separate confirmation before sending that item. Useful for sensitive work you want to track without it appearing in your regular workspace.

Your data stays in your browser. CogniSource does not hold your workspace data on our servers, so there is nothing to delete on our side. Your workspace remains in your browser until you clear it yourself.

Your workspace lives in your browser. To protect it, choose a backup folder in Settings. Chrome and Edge save to that folder automatically whenever your workspace changes. Firefox supports manual backup file download. If your chosen folder is already synced by OneDrive, Google Drive, or Dropbox, that service handles the cloud copy.
To move your workspace to another browser or device: export a full JSON backup, then use JSON Restore on the new device. Restore replaces everything on the target device with the contents of the backup file.
Important: this is not multi-device sync. Before changing devices, save or download the latest backup from the device you just used, then restore that complete backup on the next device.
Import (.csv, .xlsx, .md, .pdf, .txt) is for bringing in content from other tools, not for restoring a CogniSource workspace.

Press Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on Mac) from anywhere in the app to search across tasks, notes, projects, people, and companies. Use the up and down arrows to move through results, Tab to cycle between them, and Enter to open what you land on. Type @ to scope search to people and companies only. To create something instead of searching, use Quick Capture: press Q when you are not typing, then a single key for each create action: T task, I interruption, N note, P project, M meeting.

Type @ anywhere in a task title, description, or note to link a person or company. The mention creates a live connection: every place a person is referenced automatically appears on their record. Referenced items can be conveniently filtered by notes, tasks, projects, interruptions, and meetings.

Yes. CogniSource connects to your Microsoft 365 Outlook calendar and imports accepted invitations and meetings you organize. Private, free, out-of-office, focus-time, declined, and personal placeholder entries are excluded so your capacity numbers stay clean. Some work tenants may require admin approval before calendar sync can be used.

Yes. Import tasks from CSV or Excel (.xlsx, .xls). Import notes from plain text (.txt), Markdown (.md), or PDF files, or paste text directly. A full workspace backup can be restored from a JSON file on any device or browser.

Seven AI features are included with CogniSource access: Related Items (surfaces nearby context worth reviewing before acting on a task or note), Extract Tasks from Note (reads a note and pulls out the actionable tasks inside it), SOW Intelligence (parses a Statement of Work and creates a structured project plan), Weekly Update (prepares a spoken management update from recorded work evidence), 1:1 Brief (structures current work, risks, and blockers for a manager conversation), Manager Email (a ready-to-send escalation email grounded in your real capacity data), and Executive Summary (a formal capacity report built from your live pressure signals and forecast data).

No. AI is included in CogniSource. You do not need to bring or manage your own external API key. The core workspace, KRIs, Pressure Index, backup, calendar sync, and reviews also work without using AI.

AI features process only the relevant content for the action you start, for example the workload evidence you ask to summarise or the note you ask to extract from. Your full workspace is not uploaded by default. Private records stay out of broad AI context; sending a private task or note requires both unlocking it and confirming that specific AI action.

The onboarding wizard takes approximately two minutes. Add your active tasks with statuses and deadlines and the Pressure Index begins reading your workload immediately. The more accurately you log work, the more precise the score.

Immediately. Your first Pressure Index uses the work evidence currently available in your workspace, so a genuinely calm workload can show a genuinely low score. Add task details, meetings, and interruptions as they happen to strengthen the picture. Personal baseline adjustment begins after 14 prior daily snapshots.

The Today page opens with a one-sentence verdict about your current pressure, followed by the Pressure Index score with an 8-week sparkline. Below that: Daily Activity (a live log of workspace activity from midnight to right now), Today’s Focus (an uncapped list of due-today work, active reminders, remaining meetings, and recently overdue commitments), a Yesterday card showing what was completed, stalled, and carried over, Last Week Recap, and Next Week Preview. The KRI breakdown follows below all of that.

CogniSource automatically logs every workspace action as you work: tasks created, status changes, completions, notes updated, meetings logged manually or imported from your calendar, and interruptions logged. Daily Activity on the Today page is a live answer to “what have I done so far today”: a timestamped record of workspace activity from midnight to the moment you open it. You do not need to maintain it manually. It also feeds into Yesterday and Last Week Recap.

CogniSource is currently designed and tested as a desktop workspace in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. The public site works on mobile, but a phone is not the intended primary workspace. Chrome and Edge support automatic backup folder saving; Firefox supports manual backup file download and restore.