How to make the most of Boussole

Boussole runs on one loop: you save, it reads, and every morning it briefs you on what actually matters for your projects. The quality of that brief depends on three habits. Each takes about a minute to set up.

1. Save as you browse, honestly, without organizing

Anything that catches your eye is fair game: articles, X threads, notes, images. Use the share sheet from any app (tap Share → Boussole), or the + button inside the app.

Two things worth knowing:

• Don't curate at save time. Boussole's whole job is to sort signal from noise for you. Saving something mediocre costs nothing: the brief will call it mediocre. Filtering before you save just starves the system.
• Add a comment when you know why you're saving. A single line like "for the pricing page redesign" or "counter-argument to my launch thesis" is gold: your capture-time intent outranks everything else when Boussole judges the source.

No folders, no tags. That's the point.

2. Turn on push notifications

Your brief is composed overnight and delivered in the morning. Without notifications, it sits there waiting for you to remember it exists, which defeats the purpose of a briefing.

Tap the bell in the top-right corner of the app and flip the toggle. That's it. Boussole sends one notification a day: your brief, when it's ready. Nothing else, ever.

3. Connect Claude, so Boussole knows what matters to you

This is the step that turns Boussole from a summarizer into an advisor. A brief can only tell you what matters if it knows your projects, your standing interests, and what you'd rather not see.

If you're an active Claude user, this takes a few minutes: the app walks you through connecting Claude, which builds your profile from the context you already have there: your actual projects and preoccupations, not a questionnaire's guess at them.

Skipped it during onboarding? The bell in the top-right corner will take you back anytime.

Keep it fresh. Your profile is a snapshot of what you're working on. When your projects shift (something ships, something dies, a new obsession appears), re-run the update from the app. A stale profile means briefs tuned to who you were last month.

How to read your brief

A few conventions worth knowing:

• Verdicts ("Read now", "Skim", "Follow up"…) are the scan layer. On a busy day, the verdicts alone tell you where your attention goes.
• "The argument" is what the source says, with an honest quality call, including "this is thinner than it looks" or "this is a sales funnel in disguise."
• "Why it matters" is the bridge to your work: the only place a project of yours gets named.
• Archived is everything that didn't earn a section, with the reason. Nothing is silently hidden; you can always audit the cut.

One honest note

Boussole gets sharper with use. The first briefs work from a thin picture of you; every save, every comment, and every profile refresh sharpens the next one. Give it a week of honest saving before you judge it. Then judge it hard.