OpenCharts diagramming glossary
Definitions of the diagramming and process-mapping concepts OpenCharts supports — flowcharts, BPMN, swimlanes, decision trees, mind maps, UML, ER diagrams, and more. Each entry has a one-sentence answer and a longer explanation suitable for citation.
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AI Background
An AI background is a per-slide generated image used as the slide’s backdrop — produced by Theo Photo or Studio with a prompt, then reused via Creator Mode visual styles.
AI Credits
AI Credits are the unit OpenCharts uses to meter Theo usage — every chat reply, image, video, or autonomous skill run consumes a credit amount based on the engine and tools involved.
AI Extraction
AI Extraction converts uploaded PDFs, PowerPoints, and images into editable flowcharts — Theo identifies nodes, edges, decision branches, and labels and applies auto-layout.
Airtable Integration
The Airtable integration lets Theo read, search, and write rows in your bases — schemas, formulas, and filters are all supported.
API Key
An API key is the bearer token external clients use to authenticate against the OpenCharts MCP server — scoped, revocable, and tied to your account.
Apollo.io Integration
The Apollo.io integration brings sales-intelligence data into Theo — search people and companies, enrich contacts, and track deals via API key.
Arcade
The Arcade is OpenCharts’ in-product game zone — Node Blaster, a wave-based action game with leaderboards, achievements, and shape-themed enemies inspired by flowchart nodes.
Artifact
An artifact is any concrete deliverable Theo produces — a flowchart, deck, document, table, podcast, movie, code project, calendar, image, or video — surfaced as an interactive card in chat.
Author Flair
Author flair is the badge system that recognizes top community contributors — Template Creator, Helpful (accepted answers), Prolific, and others, displayed on every post.
Auto Layout
Auto layout is the one-click cleanup that arranges your flowchart nodes — pick top-to-bottom, left-to-right, radial, or force-directed, and edges re-route automatically.
Autonomous Daily Cap
The autonomous daily cap is a separate per-day credit budget for background actions — heartbeats, hooks, and workflows — so they can never drain your interactive credit balance.
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Background Removal
Background removal is the one-click image action that cuts out the subject and produces a transparent PNG — usable on flowcharts, slides, and notes.
BlockNote Block
A BlockNote block is the atomic unit of a note — a paragraph, heading, list item, image, table, code block, callout, web clip, or task — each with its own ID, formatting, and slash-command shortcuts.
BPMN
BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) is a standardized graphical language for modeling business processes using pools, lanes, gateways, activities, and events.
Brand Extraction
Brand Extraction pulls colors, fonts, logos, and visual style from any URL via the Brand.dev API — used by the Custom Theme Builder and brand-aware Social Mode.
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Calendar Builder Skill
Calendar Builder is a built-in keyword-triggered skill that produces interactive HTML calendars — content calendars, posting schedules, project Gantts, and event timelines.
Calendly Integration
The Calendly integration lets Theo list event types, view invitees, and create scheduling links from chat.
Charts in Presentations
Presentation charts are interactive bar, line, pie, donut, area, scatter, radar, and histogram visualizations — with multi-series data, CSV/XLSX import, palettes, and animation.
Code Canvas
Code Canvas is OpenCharts’ in-browser coding workspace — a Sandpack-powered live preview, multi-file editor, terminal, file tree, AI iterations, and a per-project Postgres database.
Code Canvas Database
The Code Canvas Database is a managed per-project Postgres instance — accessible from generated apps via window.__db, with end-user auth, seeds, CSV import, schema history, and one-click revert.
Code Mode
Code Mode generates live, multi-file code artifacts with an in-browser preview — share, fork, and iterate on React, Vue, vanilla JS, Python, or full-stack apps without leaving chat.
Code Share Artifact
A code share artifact is a public link to a Theo AI code project — recipients see a live preview, an HTML render, and the source files, no signup required.
Community Forum
The Community Forum is the platform-wide discussion surface at /community — categorized posts, voting, reactions, replies, embedded project previews, fork & remix, and weekly showcases.
Community Profile
A community profile is a public page for any user — handle, posts, templates, accepted answers, follower count, and flair badges.
Consensus Mode
Consensus Mode asks 7 different AI engines the same question, ranks their answers by agreement, and synthesizes a unified answer with a per-model breakdown card.
Consensus Panel
The Consensus Panel is the meta-engine behind Consensus Mode — it polls 7 different AI engines, scores agreement, and synthesizes a unified, sourced answer.
Content Mode (Presentations)
Content Mode is the structured presentation builder — AI generates a clean outline-driven deck with strong typography and minimal visual flair, ideal for executive and technical decks.
Cover Art
Cover art is the AI-generated image that represents a podcast episode or collection — automatically created during generation and editable from the hub.
Creator Mode (Presentations)
Creator Mode is the visual-first presentation builder — AI-generated images, illustrations, and photo backgrounds dominate the slides, ideal for marketing and conference decks.
Credit Pack
A credit pack is a one-time purchase that adds extra AI credits to your account — 250K, 500K, or 1M — that stack on top of your monthly plan allotment.
Cross-Mode Conversion
Cross-mode conversion turns a whiteboard into a flowchart (or vice versa) — either structurally (rebuilding nodes/edges) or via a high-fidelity snapshot.
Custom Theme Builder (Presentations)
The Custom Theme Builder defines a brand-aware presentation theme — colors, fonts, dark mode, logo, logo placement — saved per user and applied to any deck.
Customer journey map
A customer journey map is a visual diagram that depicts a customer's interactions with a product or service over time, including their actions, thoughts, emotions, and pain points at each stage.
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Data flow diagram
A data flow diagram (DFD) is a graphical representation of how data moves through a system, showing data sources, processes, data stores, and external entities.
Data Table
A data table is a spreadsheet-like grid attached to a flowchart node — with formulas (SUM, AVG, IF, VLOOKUP), conditional formatting, number formats, and CSV import.
Decision tree
A decision tree is a tree-shaped diagram that maps a sequence of choices and their possible outcomes, used for decision support, classification, and policy documentation.
Direct Message (DM)
A direct message is a 1:1 chat between two team members in the same organization — separate from channels, with archive controls per participant.
Discord Integration
The Discord integration connects a Discord server so Theo can post messages, read channels, list members, and create new channels from chat.
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E.V.I. (Executable Visual Intelligence)
E.V.I. (Executable Visual Intelligence) is the OpenCharts pipeline runtime — turn any flowchart into a live AI workflow where Theo executes each node in real time, calls APIs, and produces real deliverables.
Embedded Project Preview
An embedded project preview is a miniature, read-only React Flow render of a project that appears in forum posts, share pages, and external embeds.
ER diagram
An entity-relationship (ER) diagram is a data-modeling diagram that shows entities (database tables or objects), their attributes, and the relationships between them.
Execution Canvas
The Execution Canvas is the live view at /editor/[id]?mode=live — a flowchart editor that lights up in real time as Theo runs each node, with logs, outputs, and an inspect panel.
Explore Mode
Explore Mode pairs conversational Theo with proactive web search and inline citations — perfect for “tell me about X” questions, fact-finding, and quick discovery.
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Facebook Pages Integration
The Facebook Pages integration lets Theo publish posts, photos, and links to a connected Page and view engagement insights.
Fast Mode
Fast Mode is Theo’s default conversational engine — instant replies, low credit cost, and the right pick for quick questions, drafts, and lightweight artifact creation.
Fishbone diagram
A fishbone diagram (also called Ishikawa or cause-and-effect diagram) is a tool for root-cause analysis that organizes potential causes of a problem into categories radiating from a central spine.
Flashcards
Flashcards are AI-generated study cards from a note or a Learn Mode session — front-and-back deck with study and quiz modes, shareable via public links.
Flow of the Week
Flow of the Week is the rotating community spotlight — a card-stack carousel of the top showcases from the past 7 days.
Flowchart
A flowchart is a diagram that represents a process, workflow, or algorithm using shapes (nodes) connected by arrows (edges) to show the order of steps.
Flowchart Canvas
The flowchart canvas is the React Flow-based editor where you build, drag, style, and connect nodes — with auto-layout, themes, history, comments, and live multiplayer.
Folder
Folders organize projects in your workspace — name, color, icon, nesting, drag-and-drop, starred, and a sidebar tree for fast navigation.
Follow
Following another user adds their public posts, templates, and showcases to your community feed — and notifies you when they publish or reply to your work.
Fork & Remix
Fork & Remix copies someone else’s public project into your workspace — Fork makes a private copy, Remix copies and auto-creates a new community showcase post.
Free Plan
The Free plan is the no-cost OpenCharts tier — full access to flowcharts, whiteboards, notes, presentations, AI extraction, and Theo with a monthly AI credit allotment.
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Gantt chart
A Gantt chart is a horizontal bar chart that visualizes a project schedule, with tasks on the Y-axis and time on the X-axis, including dependencies and milestones.
Generative UI
Generative UI is OpenCharts’ pattern of streaming live, interactive components — flowcharts, tables, code previews, calendars, image canvases — directly into the chat as Theo answers.
GitHub Integration
The GitHub integration connects your account so Theo can browse repos, read issues and PRs, inspect commits, and manage repositories from chat.
Gmail Integration
The Gmail integration lets Theo send emails, search the inbox, read messages, and manage labels — all from chat.
Google Calendar Integration
The Google Calendar integration lets Theo view events, create meetings, and check availability from chat.
Google Docs Integration
The Google Docs integration lets Theo create, read, and update documents in your Drive from chat.
Google Drive Integration
The Google Drive integration exports OpenCharts projects to your Drive, with export history and a clean disconnect flow.
Google Sheets Integration
The Google Sheets integration lets Theo read, write, and append rows to spreadsheets from chat.
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Heartbeat
Heartbeat is Theo’s background loop that periodically evaluates your installed scheduled skills and workflows — checking their schedule, your quiet hours, and credit availability before running.
Help Request
A help request is a forum post type for asking the community a question — replies can be marked as the accepted answer, awarding the answerer a Helpful flair badge.
Hook
A hook is an event-driven trigger that runs Theo automatically when something happens — a project is created, a share is accepted, a task goes overdue, a forum reply lands.
HubSpot Integration
The HubSpot integration connects your CRM to Theo — manage contacts, deals, companies, and pipelines from chat or autonomous flows.
Human Gate
A human gate is a node in an E.V.I. flow that pauses execution and waits for an explicit accept/reject from a human — usually delivered as a Telegram or email approval prompt.
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Image Mode
Image Mode generates and edits images from chat — pick aspect ratio, style, and brand palette, then iterate with restyle, upscale, and background-remove tools.
Image Upscale
Image upscale increases an image’s resolution while preserving detail — useful for export-quality hero shots, posters, and prints.
Infographic
An infographic is a visual representation of information, data, or knowledge designed to make complex content quickly understandable, often combining charts, icons, and short text.
Instagram Integration
The Instagram integration connects an Instagram Business account so Theo can publish photos and reels and view insights.
Intent Classifier
The Intent Classifier is the layer that decides which Theo mode a message belongs to — fast, think, code, image, video, social, learn, research, or others — using regex patterns plus a small AI scorer.
Interactive Calendar
An interactive calendar is the HTML/CSS/JS calendar artifact produced by Social Mode — clickable, editable in chat, and shareable as a public page.
Invite Token
An invite token is the unique URL-safe string used in team and project invitation links — it lets recipients sign up or log in and accept the invite in a single flow.
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Kanban board
A Kanban board is a visual workflow tool that organizes tasks into columns representing stages of work, used to manage flow, limit work-in-progress, and surface bottlenecks.
Knowledge Map
A knowledge map is an AI-generated mind-map-style breakdown of any topic — auto-saved as a Notes project for further editing or as part of Learn Mode and Explore Mode follow-ups.
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Languages & i18n
OpenCharts supports English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and Polish — interface translations are managed via Crowdin with English as the source of truth.
Learn Mode
Learn Mode is an orchestrated study suite — pick a topic and depth, and Theo creates flashcards, a quiz, structured study notes, a presentation, and a knowledge map in parallel.
Linear Integration
The Linear integration connects your team’s issue tracker so Theo can create, search, and manage issues, projects, cycles, and labels.
LinkedIn Integration
The LinkedIn integration lets Theo share posts, articles, and images on your profile or connected company pages.
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MailChimp Integration
The MailChimp integration lets Theo manage subscribers, audiences, campaigns, and tags — and pull marketing analytics into chat.
MCIR (Memory-Completion Intent Resolution)
MCIR is the intent-resolution pipeline that combines fast regex routing, a small reasoning model, behavioral patterns, and memory context to decide which Theo mode and tools should handle each message.
MCP Server
The OpenCharts MCP server exposes your projects, templates, credits, and Theo tools to external IDEs and agents (Warp, Claude, Cursor, VS Code) over the Model Context Protocol.
Mind map
A mind map is a radial diagram that organizes information around a central idea, with primary branches for major themes and sub-branches for supporting details.
Model Catalog
The Model Catalog is the single source of truth for every Theo engine — capabilities, credit cost, context window, fallback chain, sort order, and feature flags.
Monday.com Integration
The Monday.com integration lets Theo manage boards, items, and columns from chat — useful for project management workflows that live in Monday.
MoSCoW prioritization
MoSCoW prioritization is a project-management framework that classifies requirements into four buckets — Must have, Should have, Could have, and Won't have — to align scope on what's truly essential.
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Network diagram
A network diagram is a visual representation of computer or organizational networks, showing devices (nodes) and the connections (edges) between them.
Node Palette
The node palette is the side panel of available shapes you drag onto the canvas — terminals, processes, decisions, data, swimlanes, BPMN gateways, ERD entities, stickers, and more.
Notes AI Side Panel
The Notes AI Side Panel is a context-aware chat that sees the whole document — it can generate sections, summarize, expand, translate, organize, or pull facts from your notes.
Notes Editor
The Notes Editor is the OpenCharts rich-text workspace — a BlockNote-based editor with slash commands, themes, inline AI, version history, real-time collaboration, and exports to DOCX, PDF, Markdown, HTML, and JSON.
Notes Export
Notes Export turns any note into Word (DOCX), PDF, Markdown, HTML, or JSON — with version history, snapshots, and Google Drive sync.
Notes Import
Notes Import brings external content into OpenCharts — Markdown, HTML, Notion ZIPs, Obsidian vaults, and Evernote ENEX archives all convert into editable BlockNote notes.
Notes Inline AI
Notes Inline AI is the in-editor AI that lives on the toolbar and behind /ai — rewrite, continue, fix grammar, simplify, lengthen, or shorten any selection without leaving the document.
Notes Tasks
Notes Tasks are structured to-dos that live inside notes — each task carries a priority, optional due date, and tiered automatic reminders.
Notes Themes
Notes themes are visual writing presets — Modern, Manuscript, Terminal, Focus, Notebook, and Academic — that change layout, typography, color, and even the available toolbar.
Notion Integration
The Notion integration lets Theo search pages, query databases, append content, and import Notion data into OpenCharts.
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OKRs
OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) is a goal-setting framework where each high-level Objective is paired with 2–5 measurable Key Results, used by Google, Intel, and many modern companies to align focus across teams.
Onboarding
Onboarding is the guided wizard new users see on first run — language, avatar, profile, theme, security, and an interactive product tour.
Open Box
Open Box is the OpenCharts file storage and data room — a desktop-style file browser with folders, previews, sharing, password-protected links, watermarks, and tiered storage quotas.
Org chart
An organizational chart (org chart) is a tree-shaped diagram that shows a company's reporting structure, with employees as nodes and reporting relationships as edges.
Org Role
Org roles are the four permission tiers inside an organization — Owner, Admin, Editor, Viewer — that gate access to settings, members, projects, and chat.
Organization
An organization is a tenant inside OpenCharts that holds team members, shared projects, channels, DMs, and billing — separate from your personal workspace.
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Permission Levels
Permission levels are the three sharing roles for projects — Viewer (read-only), Commenter (can add threaded comments), and Editor (full edit access).
Persona
A persona is a fictional but research-grounded archetype of a target user, used in product design and marketing to align teams on who they're building for and why.
Pinterest Integration
The Pinterest integration lets Theo create pins, manage boards, view analytics, and grow your presence on Pinterest.
Podcast Collection
A podcast collection is a curated bundle of episodes — your own podcast “show” with a shared cover art, description, and shareable show URL.
Podcast Hub
The Podcast Hub is the OpenCharts surface that lists every podcast you’ve generated — episodes, collections, and a built-in player for browsing and sharing.
Presentation Deck
A presentation deck is an OpenCharts slide deck — AI-generated, theme-aware, with charts, animations, speaker notes, presenter view, rehearsal coach, and one-click web publishing.
Presentation Image Editor
The presentation image editor crops, filters, annotates, frames, and adjusts images directly inside the slide editor — no round-trip to a separate tool.
Presenter View
Presenter View is the dual-window mode that shows the audience the active slide while you see the next slide, speaker notes, a timer, and the AI cheat sheet.
Process map
A process map is a visual representation of a workflow that documents the sequence of steps, decision points, and handoffs needed to complete a business outcome.
Publish to Web (Presentations)
Publish to Web turns any deck into a hosted page — custom slug, password protection, SEO controls, favicon, background video, logo, and a QR code for live audiences.
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RACI matrix
A RACI matrix is a responsibility-assignment table that maps tasks to roles using four labels — Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed — to clarify who does what.
Real-time Presence
Real-time presence is the multiplayer layer that shows live cursors, online avatars, and node selection locks while teammates collaborate on a project.
Rehearsal Coach
The Rehearsal Coach grades your delivery in real time — pacing, filler words, on-script accuracy — and produces a per-slide score and improvement notes.
Research Mode (Deep Research)
Research Mode runs a multi-pass background pipeline — searches dozens of sources, synthesizes findings, and produces a polished, downloadable research document.
Retrospective
A retrospective (or retro) is a structured team meeting at the end of an iteration where the team reflects on what went well, what didn't, and what to change next time.
Run with Theo
“Run with Theo” is the button at the top of any flowchart that hands the flow over to E.V.I. — Theo configures each node, validates the graph, and executes it on the Execution Canvas.
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Sequence diagram
A sequence diagram is a UML interaction diagram that shows how objects or actors exchange messages over time, with vertical lifelines and horizontal arrows.
Settings
Settings is the per-user control panel — profile, security, 2FA, notifications, theme, language, privacy, Theo personality, and account deletion.
Share Link
A share link is a public URL that gives anyone with the link viewer, commenter, or editor access to a project — with optional expiration and password.
Shopify Integration
The Shopify integration lets Theo list products, manage carts, and generate checkout URLs from chat — useful for e-commerce ops and content.
Showcase Post
A showcase post is a community post that links a public project — it renders an embedded preview and exposes Use This / Remix actions for other users.
Sitemap
A sitemap is a hierarchical diagram of a website's pages and the navigation between them, used in information architecture, content audits, and SEO planning.
Skill
A skill is an installable extension that gives Theo a new behavior — a domain prompt, custom tools, allowed base tools, and an optional trigger (manual, event, schedule, or keyword).
Slack Integration
The Slack integration lets Theo post messages, list channels, send DMs, and upload files from chat — and is the most common destination for E.V.I. notifications.
Slash Command
A slash command is a /-triggered menu inside Notes that inserts a block, runs an action, or opens an inline AI prompt — e.g. /heading, /todo, /clip, /ai.
Slide Layout
Slide layouts are the canonical templates for individual slides — title, two-column, image-left, image-right, full-image, blank, section divider, and quote.
Social & Calendar Mode
Social Mode is Theo’s calendar-and-content-planning agent — it builds interactive HTML calendars, content schedules, Gantt timelines, and Kanban structure boards in one go.
Speaker Notes
Speaker notes are the per-slide notes that only you see during a presentation — visible in Presenter View and the Teleprompter, and editable from the deck editor.
Starter Plan
Starter is the entry paid plan — bigger AI credit allotment, more storage, and higher export limits for individuals and small teams.
State machine
A state machine (or state diagram) is a diagram that shows the discrete states an object can be in and the transitions that move it between states, often with conditions or events on each transition.
Stop Predicate
A stop predicate is the rule that decides when Theo should end a multi-step generation — e.g. stop after the calendar tool runs, or after N tool calls in research mode.
Storyboard Preview
A storyboard preview is the editable scene-by-scene plan Theo produces before rendering a movie — review and tweak each shot before committing to the full render.
Stripe Billing
Stripe Billing is the OpenCharts payment backbone — every subscription, credit pack, and invoice flows through Stripe with secure card handling and automated dunning.
Stripe Integration
The Stripe integration (coming soon) connects your Stripe account so Theo can manage customers, invoices, payment links, and view balances.
Swimlane diagram
A swimlane diagram is a flowchart that organizes activities into horizontal or vertical lanes, with each lane representing a different actor, role, or department responsible for those activities.
SWOT analysis
A SWOT analysis is a strategic-planning framework that maps Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats into a 2×2 matrix to support decision-making.
System context diagram
A system context diagram is a high-level architecture diagram that shows a system as a single box at the center, surrounded by the people and external systems it interacts with.
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Team Channel
A team channel is a topic-scoped thread inside an organization’s chat — pin announcements, share project updates, and tag teammates with @ mentions.
Team Chat
Team Chat is the real-time messaging surface inside every organization — channels and DMs powered by Ably with presence, typing indicators, and emoji reactions.
Team Project
A team project is a flowchart, whiteboard, presentation, or note that belongs to an organization and inherits its members and roles.
Teams Plan
Teams is the multi-seat plan — shared AI credit pool, centralized billing, organization-level storage, and team admin controls.
Telegram Bot
The Telegram bot is the 5th Theo entry point — link your account once and drive the entire OpenCharts platform (chat, projects, image canvas, code, podcasts, calendars) from inside Telegram.
Teleprompter
The teleprompter scrolls your speaker notes in sync with your speech — Theo Voice tracks your words and advances the script automatically.
Templates Gallery
The templates gallery is the OpenCharts catalog of starter projects — pre-built flowcharts, whiteboards, presentations, and notes you can clone with one click.
Theo (Chat Engine)
Theo is the default conversational engine — fast, capable, and tuned for everyday chat, drafting, and lightweight tool calling.
Theo AI
Theo AI is the OpenCharts assistant — a multi-mode, multi-modal agent that creates flowcharts, whiteboards, notes, presentations, code, podcasts, movies, and more from a single chat.
Theo Desk
Theo Desk is the native macOS desktop agent — Theo can see your screen, control mouse/keyboard, drive any app or browser, and run multi-step desktop workflows under your supervision.
Theo Mascot
The Theo Mascot is the animated sidebar companion that gives Theo a face — it reacts to your activity, surfaces tips, and provides a one-click entry point into chat, voice, and stealth mode.
Theo Memory
Theo Memory is the personal knowledge graph that remembers your facts, preferences, and instructions across conversations — so Theo gets more useful the more you use it.
Theo Movies
Theo Movies are multi-segment AI videos with a storyboard preview, narrated voiceover, and a polished final render — generated from notes or a prompt.
Theo Personality
Theo Personality is your per-account configuration — tone, persona, language, formatting preferences — that gets injected into every system prompt so Theo always sounds like the assistant you want.
Theo Photo
Theo Photo is the photoreal image engine — used for product shots, hero images, portraits, and anything that needs photographic fidelity.
Theo Podcasts
Theo Podcasts are AI-generated two-host audio episodes built from your notes, research documents, or any content — with cover art, the Podcast Hub, collections, and shareable players.
Theo Presenter
Theo Presenter is the avatar-and-narration engine — used when a deck or movie needs a cinematic narrator and lip-synced presenter video.
Theo Pro
Theo Pro is the higher-quality conversational engine — used for hard reasoning, code, and modes where correctness and depth matter more than latency.
Theo Rapid
Theo Rapid is the lightweight, ultra-fast engine used for autonomous skills, hooks, classifiers, and any background task where latency and cost matter more than depth.
Theo Reason
Theo Reason is the deep-thinking engine — extended-deliberation reasoning for hard math, plans, and analysis tasks.
Theo Stealth (Private Mode)
Theo Stealth is the zero-retention private chat mode — ephemeral session, no history, no memory writes, and access to uncensored image and video engines.
Theo Studio
Theo Studio is the illustrative image engine — line art, painterly textures, brand-styled illustrations, and graphic design output.
Theo Type
Theo Type is the typography-aware image engine — used when prompts include readable text, posters, social tiles, and lettering-driven design.
Theo Voice
Theo Voice is the streaming audio engine — low-latency speech-to-speech that powers Voice Mode, Notes voice dictation, and the Theo Desk hands-free loop.
Think Mode
Think Mode runs Theo’s deep reasoning engine — slower but with better answers for hard problems, multi-step plans, and code or analysis tasks where correctness matters.
Tier 1/2/3 Orchestration
Tier 1/2/3 orchestration is Theo’s adaptive routing — Tier 1 handles single-shot replies, Tier 2 hands off to a tuned specialist, Tier 3 fans out to a planner-specialist-evaluator multi-agent DAG.
TikTok Integration
The TikTok integration lets Theo publish videos, view analytics, and manage your TikTok content from chat.
Tool Call
A tool call is a structured action Theo invokes during a response — like create_flowchart, send_email, or db_run_sql — that produces a real artifact or side effect, not just text.
Trash & Recovery
Trash & Recovery is OpenCharts’ soft-delete system — deleted projects move to trash, are recoverable for 30 days, and can also be permanently deleted at any time.
Trello Integration
The Trello integration lets Theo manage boards, lists, and cards — create, move, search, and label cards directly from chat.
Trigger
A trigger is the rule that decides when a skill, hook, or workflow runs — manual (you click Run), schedule (cron-like), event (platform event), or keyword (message match).
Try-to-Fix
Try-to-Fix is the one-click repair button in Code Canvas — when runtime errors appear, it sends the last 20 errors back to Theo to patch the code automatically.
Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)
Two-factor authentication adds a TOTP code on top of your password — protect your OpenCharts account with Google Authenticator, 1Password, or any TOTP app.
Typeform Integration
The Typeform integration lets Theo list forms, view responses, and pull survey data into OpenCharts notes and research.
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UML
UML (Unified Modeling Language) is a standardized family of diagrams used in software engineering to model systems, including class, sequence, activity, state, and use-case diagrams.
Unlimited Plan
Unlimited is the heavy-usage plan — the largest AI credit pool, full media engines, expanded storage, and access to advanced engines like Theo Reason and Consensus.
User flow
A user flow is a diagram that maps the steps a user takes through a product or service to accomplish a specific goal, including screens, actions, and decision points.
User story map
A user story map is a 2D arrangement of user stories where the X-axis is the user's journey and the Y-axis is priority, used to plan releases and surface feature gaps.
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Value stream map
A value stream map (VSM) is a Lean diagram that captures the flow of materials and information for a product or service, used to identify waste and design improved future-state processes.
Version History
Version history records every change to a project with the user, color, timestamp, and a human-readable summary — so you can see who did what and roll back any time.
Video Mode
Video Mode generates short videos from a prompt — pick aspect ratio, duration, and visual style, then preview and share or download the result.
Visual Style
A visual style is a prompt-and-engine preset that controls the aesthetic of generated media — cinematic, animated, watercolor, pixel art, and more — used by movies, presentations, and Image Canvas.
Voice Mode
Voice Mode is real-time, streaming audio chat with Theo — speak to brainstorm, dictate, get summaries, and trigger creation tools without typing.
Voting & Reactions
Voting & reactions are the upvote/downvote and emoji-reaction systems on every post and reply — used to surface useful contributions and flag low-effort ones.
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Web Clip Block
A web clip block is a special Notes block that renders a clipped web page or selection as a collapsible card with the source URL, favicon, clipped date, and re-clip / open / delete actions.
Web Clipper
The Web Clipper is the OpenCharts Chrome extension that saves web pages, selections, highlights, screenshots, and images into Notes — with AI summarization, action extraction, and templated formatting.
WhatsApp Business Integration
The WhatsApp Business integration (coming soon) lets Theo send templates, text, and media via the Meta Cloud API.
Whiteboard
The Whiteboard is OpenCharts’ infinite, freeform canvas for sketching, sticky-noting, wireframing, and AI-assisted brainstorming — with hand-drawn aesthetics and a community component library.
Whiteboard AI
Whiteboard AI is the built-in assistant that can create, edit, or query whiteboard content — generate a retro template, restyle a sketch, or answer questions about what’s on the canvas.
Whiteboard Component Library
The whiteboard component library is a community-driven catalog of reusable shapes, UI kits, icons, and stencils that you can drag onto any whiteboard.
Wireframe
A wireframe is a low-fidelity sketch of a digital interface that shows layout, structure, and content placement, intentionally stripped of color, typography, and visual polish.
Workflow
A workflow is a multi-step automation — tool calls, AI transforms, conditions, delays, and notifications wired together with branching logic and credit checkpoints.