Bridges are everything that crosses the edge of your Space — files you import or export once, calendars you bring in or publish, and short-lived links that share one person's details.

A Bridge is anything that moves information in or out of your Space — everything you keep in Longtime. Bridges in the menu (it appears once you have added your first person and logged your first connection) opens the hub, which shows all three kinds, what needs your attention, and what is out in the world right now.

For everything that comes in, the rule is the same: nothing lands without your say-so. An import set to apply its changes is that say-so, given once for the whole file.

The three kinds

Bridge	What it is	Direction
Demand Bridges	One-time files: import people, connections or occasions, or export your own	In and out
Constant Bridges	Feeds that run on their own: calendars you bring in, and birthday or connection feeds you publish	In and out
Flash Bridges	A short-lived link to one person's details, for someone outside your Space	Out only

Demand Bridges move when you ask; Constant Bridges keep running; Flash Bridges last a short while.

Until anything has crossed your Space's edge, the hub asks what you came to do and offers the three most common starting points: bringing people in from a file, putting birthdays on your calendar, and sending someone a person's address.

Needs you

Below the three Bridge cards, the Needs you list shows anything that is waiting on you:

an import whose columns need mapping before it can finish;
an import or an export that failed;
an export that is ready to download;
a feed that stopped syncing;
a link that is about to expire;
suggestions a Bridge brought in, waiting for review.

Each one links you straight to it. When the list is clear, it says "Nothing needs you."

Out in the world

The Out in the world list shows what someone outside your Space can reach right now, and until when: each live Flash Bridge with its expiry, and each published feed.

When nothing is shared, it says so — "Nothing is exposed". Links expire on their own; feeds stay live until you remove them.

Recent Bridge activity

The last things that crossed: files imported, exports made, details shared — and whether a Flash Bridge is still live.