What a save costs

Omphalis meters the work it does on what you keep, and Settings is where that lives. Under Billing, the information mark on the first bullet of your plan card opens How units work, which lists the rates your plan is on. Below it, This cycle shows what you have used against your allowance and the days until it resets.

Read both there rather than from here. Rates are configuration and they change, what an allowance does when it runs out depends on your plan and on what you have bought, and a page of writing can only ever be a stale copy of either. The meter is the honest number, because it counts what your items turned out to be.

Two things about it are worth knowing in advance. The cost of a save follows the size of the thing saved, so it settles once an item has been extracted rather than at the moment you saved it. And a save is never refused for want of budget: in the worst case the item is kept with its title and its source, and the layers are added later.

What you make yourself is measured differently. Writing in a notebook is not a save and is not metered, and keeping a recording spends no units either, however long it runs. What a recording does use is space: it counts against your storage, and one you make in a notebook can run up to thirty minutes, while audio you bring in from elsewhere is not held to that ceiling.

Transcribing a recording is the exception, and it is the one worth knowing. That spends units by the length of the audio, because it is the point at which speech becomes something the rest of Omphalis can read, search and answer from. Keeping the recording costs you nothing; making it readable is the part you pay for.