How to Use SOLUS

Quick start guide & app capabilities

SOLUS is a frictionless Telegram-based daily planner and habit tracker that syncs your tasks straight to a secure Google Sheet dashboard. It lives directly inside your messaging app—making tracking your day as natural as returning a text.

🚀 For the Ambitious

Drive peak performance by minimizing interface fatigue. Keep an airtight ledger of your discipline over months and years using the automated analytics engine. The frictionless journaling loop builds unstoppable momentum.

🍃 For Gentle Tracking

Offload your mental energy. Jot down a couple of small tasks in the morning, receive positive midday reminders, and tick them off at night. It's a compassionate companion keeping you anchored, one small win at a time.

2-Minute Setup Guide

1

Create your empty Google Sheet

Go to your Google Drive and create a fresh Google Sheet. Share the sheet with the Service Account Email provided by your developer giving it "Editor" access.

2

Find the Telegram Bot

On Telegram, search for @solus_ascion_bot and start a conversation.

3

Get your Chat ID

Search for @userinfobot on Telegram and press Start. It will instantly reply with your Chat ID (a sequence of numbers).

4

Connect it all in Settings

Navigate to the Settings page here on the dashboard. Paste your Google Sheet Link and Chat ID into the Connections pane. Hit Save! Your sheets will automatically populate with tabs and you'll get a welcome message on Telegram.

📋 Task Backlog

The backlog is a date-free holding area for tasks you've captured but aren't ready to schedule. Park ideas in the morning, promote them when the time is right.

  • /backlog <tasks> — Park one or more tasks. Multi-line input adds each line as a separate task. Leading bullets and numbers are stripped automatically.
  • /backlog — View your parked tasks as a numbered list (up to 20 shown).
  • /backlog-use <n> — Move task #n to today's list. You can also use #n as shorthand (e.g. /backlog-use #3).
  • /backlog-tomorrow <n> — Move task #n to tomorrow's list.
  • /backlog-remove <n> — Delete task #n from the backlog.
  • Backlog page: The dedicated Backlog page (accessible from the sidebar) lets you promote or remove tasks directly — no Telegram needed.

📓 Journal

Capture thoughts, reflections, or notes at any point in the day. Entries are tied to a specific date and stack up chronologically.

  • /journal — Read today's entries. Reply to any old bot message to read that day's entries instead.
  • /journal <text> — Append an entry to today. Multi-line messages are stored as a single entry.
  • Reply to an old message + /journal <text> — Logs the entry against that message's date automatically.
  • Journal page (sidebar): A full rich-text editor with live markdown preview. Pick any past date from the left column, write freely, and changes auto-save. Supports bold, italic, headings, blockquotes, lists, code blocks, links, and more via the toolbar.
  • Day Detail Modal: Journal entries for a day appear as a collapsed section at the bottom — click to expand.

✅ Capabilities Breakdown

  • Morning Prompts: Receive a friendly morning check-in equipped with your daily motivation visual.
  • Zero-UI Logging: Add tasks by simply sending your bot a plain-text message.
  • Effortless Evening Reviews: After your configured evening time, standard text messages automatically log your completion notes for your remaining tasks (no commands needed)—just press Enter (new line) to separate notes for different tasks.
  • Mid-day Done: Finish a task early? Text /done 1 or /done 1. Was easy and it logs silently to mark it as complete.
  • Plan Tomorrow: Use /tomorrow to view or add tasks for the next day. You can pass a single task or send a multi-line list. They'll be ready and waiting the next morning, with any new tasks appended below.
  • Task Backlog: Park ideas and tasks that aren't ready to schedule yet. Use /backlog <task> to capture them (multi-line supported), /backlog to review, and /backlog-use <n> or /backlog-tomorrow <n> to promote them when you're ready. The dedicated Backlog page (sidebar) lets you do all of this without opening Telegram.
  • Journal: Write anytime with /journal <text> in Telegram, or use the Journal page for a full rich-text editor with live markdown preview. Reply to any old bot message to journal against that date. Entries appear in the Day Detail modal.
  • Rich Analytics: Revisit your weekly and monthly tile boards anytime to spot trends and review past notes.