Overview

Single-Click Summaries are quick-access actions prominently displayed when you first open the Pieces Desktop App. These summaries generate instant, contextual insights from your workflow captured by the Long-Term Memory (LTM-2.7) Engine.

Each summary type adapts dynamically to your workflow, meaning the same summary type generates different results based on your current activities, captured memories, and work patterns. This makes Single-Click Summaries powerful tools for understanding your productivity, tracking progress, and identifying patterns in your work.

Generating Summaries

Click any summary card on the homepage and after a few minutes, you'll see your summary in the Pieces Timeline.

You can queue multiple unique summaries at once, but wait for the current one to finish before starting another of the same type.

Viewing Queued Summaries

When you generate a summary, it appears under the current day in Pieces Timeline with a "Queued" status. Expand the day section to track progress.

Click `Show Timeline` in the top left of the main view to expand Pieces Timeline if it's not already open. Click on the current day section to expand it and view all summaries, timeline activities, and other events for that day. Queued summaries appear with a "Queued" status indicator showing their position in the queue (e.g., "Queued (#3)", "Next in queue"). Timeline with queued Single-Click Summaries for the current day

Pieces Timeline showing current day expanded with queued summaries visible

Canceling a Summary

Locate the summary you want to cancel under the current day in Pieces Timeline and click the red cancel button (hovering shows Stop Generating).

Viewing Completed Summaries

When a summary finishes generating, it remains in the day section where it was queued. Click it to view detailed insights, related activities, and links to relevant documents or commits from your workflow.

Completed summary with insights, related activities, and document links

Completed summary view showing full results with insights, related activities, and links to relevant documents

Explore Single-Click Summaries

Browse all built-in summary types—Day Recap, Standup Update, Time Breakdown, AI Habits, and more. Create custom summaries with specific time ranges, save reusable templates, and request new summary types. Schedule summaries to run automatically—daily or on specific days of the week.