# Plans and brain dumps

> Pour out everything on your mind in one message. Your helper splits it into separate tasks and shows you a plan to approve first.

Section: Using 1Helm

## The plan card

When one message holds several separate jobs, or one job big enough to be its own project, your helper answers with a **plan card**: one line per task, each with a checkbox. You can also ask for one: "split this up", "make this a project".

- **Approve** starts every ticked task at once, each in its own new task, working in parallel.
- **Deny** drops the plan. **Let's talk** keeps chatting about it first.
- Time-based items ("remind me Friday") become a task with a follow-up at that time.
- From General, a plan can include a new channel for a bigger project.

## Questions first

If something would change the work, like which email account to check or which dates you mean, the plan card shows **Questions first** with tap-to-pick answers. Your answers go with your approval, so the tasks start with what they need.

## After you approve

Each task works on its own and shows up with a dot when it has something for you. With **Pause to check spending** on, tasks a plan starts have a smaller budget: if one runs past it, it pauses with a short report of what it found and what's left, and **Keep going** / **Stop here**. At most 3 work at once in a channel; the rest wait their turn. The plan card also has **Stop these tasks**. See [spending controls](https://1helm.com/docs/working/#runaway-protection).

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Web page: https://1helm.com/docs/plans/