Pulse – A Quiet Productivity Companion for Blender

Pulse stays in the background and helps you understand how you actually work — without ever demanding attention.

> **Assist, never interrupt.**

No modal popups. No constant notifications. No workflow interruption.  

Just a calm studio assistant that tracks your time, celebrates consistency, and gives you useful insights when you want them.

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## Why Pulse?

Most productivity tools shout.  

Pulse whispers.

It automatically starts when Blender opens, pauses when you go idle, and only speaks when it has something genuinely useful to say — a gentle save reminder, a quiet “one hour complete”, or a streak milestone at the end of the day.

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## Features

### Core Tracking

- **Automatic Session Timer** – starts with Blender, no buttons required

- **Idle Detection** – pauses after configurable inactivity (default 5 min)

- **Save Reminders** – quiet notice when you haven’t saved for a while

- **Today / Week / Month / Year totals**

- **Per-project time tracking**

### Goals & Habits

- Daily and weekly hour goals with clean progress bars

- **Streak tracking** – consecutive creative days

- **Achievement system** focused on consistency (First Hour, 7-Day Streak, Night Owl, Early Bird, 100 Hours…)

### Insights

- Activity detection (Modeling, Sculpting, UV, Animation, Geometry Nodes, Shaders, Compositing…)

- Longest session, average session, most productive day & hour

- Top projects ranking

- Full statistics panel

### Pro Tools

- **Progress Snapshots** – automatic viewport captures for simple timelapses

- **Session Notes** – optional short note when you end a session

- **Freelancer Mode** – clients, billable hours, hourly rate, estimated earnings

- Export to **JSON, CSV and Markdown**

### Design Philosophy

- Minimal UI that feels native to Blender

- Dark-theme friendly

- Notifications never steal focus

- Almost zero performance impact

- Everything stored locally (no cloud, no accounts, no telemetry)

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## Perfect For

- Freelancers who need accurate billable hours

- Artists building better creative habits

- Students tracking practice time

- Anyone who wants insight without interruption

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## Installation

1. Install the zip via Edit → Preferences → Add-ons → Install

2. Enable **Pulse**

3. Open the Sidebar (N) → **Pulse** tab

All data is stored locally in your Blender config folder.