Using Dhaga

Dhaga turns everyone you meet into a private knowledge graph you own. You capture a person once — from a card photo, a pasted email signature, a voice note — and Dhaga keeps the source as a receipt, extracts the facts, and wires them into a graph you can search, ask questions of, and explore visually.

This guide walks through the app the way you actually use it. Each page is a short "how to" for one part of the product.

Home grows with your network

/app opens on Home. It is one responsive briefing rather than a fixed dashboard: what it leads with changes as Dhaga learns enough to be useful.

• First day — with no people yet, Home explains where to begin, shows your empty world, and offers Add your first person and Import contacts.
• Taking shape — after the first person, Home brings in your network globe, today's moments, and a five-step setup card.
• Integrated — after all five setup steps are complete, today's moments and the live network view become the focus while the completed setup stays available as a compact reference.

The five setup steps are factual: add a person, connect a calendar, choose preferred calling hours, review reminders, and explore the map. Adding a person and connecting a calendar are derived from the underlying data; Home does not pretend they are done because a button was clicked. Calling hours and the two review acknowledgements are saved with your other preferences and are included in a data export.

Moments for today

Moments for today is the short list of threads most worth pulling now. Dhaga weighs everyone in your graph against what is actually happening — a keep-in-touch rhythm that has come due, a dated follow-up, an important date, a job-change or news signal you chose to watch, how long the silence has run, and how connected someone is. Every row says why it is there:

• Check-in — someone you keep in touch with daily.
• Due — your keep-in-touch rhythm for this person has run out.
• Follow-up — something you promised to do is due today, or is late.
• Occasion — a birthday or anniversary, today or just ahead.
• Signal — a job change or news story from your watchlist.
• Quiet — no reason beyond the silence; you simply haven't spoken in a long while.
• Network — nothing is due at all; they're well connected in your graph and worth a thread anyway.

Being starred nudges someone up the list, and the list rotates gently day to day so the same well-connected face is not there every morning — but neither ever becomes the stated reason. Writing a note about someone or scanning them at an event resets their rhythm exactly as Reached out does. Open a row for the person's details, use Reached out to keep the list honest, or choose Find a time when a connected calendar has an available slot.

When more people are due than the day's list shows, the section ends on View N more. That opens Plan, where the remaining due work stays available beyond Home's deliberately short list.

Your relationship goal

Your Relationship goal has a tile of its own on Home and a page of its own at Goal, in the app's More menu. Use Set a goal to write one objective, or its menu later to edit, finish, or archive it. The tile previews today's people, each with a one-line reason it matched them, and its counter reads "3 of 14 today · 3 already shown" rather than a bare ratio.

The Goal page holds four lists: Today — people you haven't been offered before — Already shown, which are still open and never buried, All matches, the whole cohort in one list, and Skipped. Every person on every list carries the reason they matched. Not relevant removes someone and asks why, with four one-tap answers or your own words, and the next matching pass learns from what you said; you can also add a person to the goal by hand.

Matching runs in the nightly pass, and it takes two nights for the first people to land: one night sends your goal off to be matched, the next brings the people back. Waiting is free — Request now runs the match while you watch and costs credits.

Your network globe

The globe is a real, movable view of the cities already represented in your graph. Drag it to rotate, scroll or pinch to zoom, or use the arrow keys when it has keyboard focus. A click or Enter opens the full map; dragging does not accidentally navigate. If WebGL is unavailable, the same control becomes a clear route to the map instead of leaving a broken canvas.

Places colours the saved city clusters. After you set preferred calling hours, Calling windows adds a DST-aware view: each city's cached coordinates are resolved to an IANA time zone on the server, and the globe rotates beneath a live day/night shadow while the city list distinguishes a good window from an outside hour. Home never geocodes while it renders and never sends contact data to a globe provider; it reads the map cache already owned by your account.

The full map remains city-grain. Select a city to frame it at city zoom, then pan or zoom around the real MapLibre canvas and open the people grouped there. Opening the map from Home, navigation, or a direct URL completes the setup step. Dhaga does not claim a street address and does not track anyone live. See Exploring the graph and map.

Move around on any screen size

• On a phone, the bottom bar keeps Today, People, Capture, Map, and You within thumb reach. Capture asks which method you want — manual, paste, card scan, upload, or voice — before it opens. You opens the full route and account directory, including your goal, companies, tags, saved items, events, entities, import, sync conflicts, Wrapped, invites, docs, the tour, and settings.
• On a tablet, the top bar keeps search and utilities visible while Menu opens the same complete directory.
• On a desktop, the canonical Dhaga mark and wordmark sit above a permanent left rail with workspace and Explore destinations.

Capture opens the same quick-add dialog at every breakpoint. Phone safe areas are respected, and the content keeps enough bottom space that the tab bar does not cover the last action.

People Dhaga doesn't suggest

An imported address book is never only people: it arrives carrying "Ola Support", "Vegetable Vendor", "AC Repair". Dhaga reads over the contacts you've never done anything with and marks the ones that look like a business, a shop or a support line rather than someone you could message, and stops offering them on the surfaces where it volunteers a name — the daily briefing, the going-quiet list, recommendations, the graph filler.

Nothing is hidden or deleted. A contact marked that way is still in People, still in search, still in duplicate detection and merging, still in your Wrapped card, and still in every export. The only thing that changes is that Dhaga stops putting it in front of you unasked. A row you went looking for is always there.

You can see the whole list, and overrule it. The People page carries an "N hidden from suggestions" link that opens exactly those rows; each contact's own page shows whether the call was Dhaga's guess or you marked this, and one tap flips it. The People table's bulk bar can mark many at once. Your ruling is a lock — once you've said a row is a person, the nightly pass never judges it again.

Anyone you've already acted on is never judged in the first place. If you've starred them, put them on your watchlist, set a keep-in-touch rhythm, recorded reaching out to them, or written a single note about them, Dhaga treats that as settled and leaves the contact out of the sweep entirely. The only rows it looks at are the ones nobody has ever touched.

When Dhaga can't tell from the record — a bare first name and nothing else — it says so and leaves the contact alone rather than guessing. Only a confident "not a person" ever suppresses anything.

The sections

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