What a moment is
Most of a working week is not a post. Logistics, pleasantries and status updates are noise; the story is a few sentences buried in an hour of talk. A moment is one of those sentences, found and kept. Each one carries a kind, so you can see at a glance what sort of story it is:
- A decision: something you chose, and what it cost or bought.
- A win: a result with a number or a name behind it.
- A lesson: something that went wrong and what you now do differently.
- A number: a figure from the work that makes a reader stop.
- A conflict: a tension the team argued about, and where you landed.
- A story: anything else with a narrative in it. A trend is the one kind that does not come from your week; it is a development in your niche, found by the radar, with a link to its source.
A moment is stored as three lines and a label: a title of under fifteen words, the angle it earns as a post in under twenty-five, one factual detail the draft should keep, and the source it came from. The angle is the point: a specific, opinionated way into a subject, which is what separates a moment from a topic.
Where moments come from
From the sources you connect: your calendar, Meet, Zoom, Fireflies and Granola transcripts and notes, the Slack conversations you picked, the Notion pages you granted, your Wispr Flow notes. About once a week Sonar reads the last seven days of each, assembles the week into one block of text, and asks the model for two to four story-shaped moments from it, with a standing instruction to return fewer, or none, before inventing one. On thin material such as calendar titles alone, the bar rises: patterns across the week count, and a single meeting whose outcome is unknown is skipped. A calendar entry is where a story happened, and Sonar asks you what came of it rather than guessing.
Moments also come from you directly: from your answers to the questions Sonar leaves on Home, from a document you upload and ask it to mine, and from a photo or a take in the Studio. Each one carries its provenance, and the text it was mined from is discarded the moment the read ends. Nothing of the transcript, the messages or the calendar is stored. Security has the full account per source.
The people rule
A moment is the seed of a public post, so the rule about other people applies at the moment it is mined, before any draft exists. The title, the angle and the detail never carry a personal name. Everyone in the material except you is written as a role or a relationship: our recruiter, a candidate, a client's CMO, someone on my team. Public figures and your own name are the only exceptions.
Someone else's private circumstances are handled harder. When the material touches another person's health, a bereavement, their pay, their performance review or a departure in progress, Sonar keeps neither the situation nor the person. It extracts your own lesson from it, written so nobody could be identified, and where even that would identify them, it drops the moment.
One field is different. Each moment keeps a pointer to the real meeting or document it came from, for your eyes only, so you can check the work. That pointer reaches your screens as provenance and never reaches a prompt that writes a post; the drafting side sees the source as "Meet" or "Slack" and no more.
Where you see them, and how you delete them
On Home, where the freshest moment is the day's suggested post and the rest of the week waits under "Or start from your week". In the weekly deck, where two of the five cards are drafts written from this week's moments. In Compose and the chat, which can bring the week up on request. And in full in Settings under Intelligence, Moments: every moment Sonar has ever mined for you, drafted-from ones included, with a count per source.
That desk is also where they go. Delete one, a selection, everything from one source, everything older than a date, or all of them. Or set a retention rule of 30 days, 90 days or 1 year, and a daily sweep deletes every moment past it, whether or not a post was drafted from it. Turning a source off keeps the moments already mined, because they are yours; deleting your account deletes them with everything else.