Everything in the app, in the order you'd naturally reach for it — nothing here is required, and most of it you'll only need once you're curious about it.
Getting started
Everything in idyeah lives inside an interest — a group for something you're into, thinking about, or working through. It could be as broad as "learn woodworking" or as specific as a single project. There's no limit on how many you keep active, and nothing about how you organize them is fixed later — every interest can be renamed, shelved, completed, or deleted at any time.
Tap the + button on the main list and give it a name. That's the whole setup — there's no template to fill out, no required fields beyond the name itself.
Getting started
Every interest starts as an empty list of notes. A note can be an idea, a reminder-to-self, a reflection, an insight, or something drawn from a conversation — you don't need to decide which up front, and you can always change it later.
The direct way — pick a kind, type what's on your mind, and add it. Fastest when you already know exactly what you want to capture.
Say what's on your mind — a rough idea, a question, even something practical like "how do I remove a background from a photo." When you're done, the conversation gets distilled into one short, honest note — not a transcript, not padded with generic reflection you didn't actually say.
Every conversation is saved and can be reopened later, continuing from exactly where you left off.
A dedicated quick-capture moment for something that just occurred to you — separate from the main note flow, for the times an idea arrives while you're mid-thought about something else entirely.
Shaping what you've captured
As an interest grows, a handful of tools help keep it readable — all of them optional, and none of them appear until they'd actually be useful. A brand new interest with one note doesn't show a category picker or a pin toggle; those only show up once there's enough content for them to matter.
Every note has a simple on/off switch for whether it feeds into generation at all. Excluding something doesn't delete it — it just steps out of the way without needing to be removed.
A 1–10 weight on anything included, so the ideas that matter most to you get proportionally more emphasis when idyeah generates from them — without needing to exclude everything else just to make one note stand out.
Ask idyeah to sort a pile of uncategorized items into a small number of clear groups, so a growing interest stops reading as one long undifferentiated list. It's a suggestion, not a verdict — rename or reassign anything afterward exactly like editing any other text.
Marks a note as never folded into a summary, however large the interest grows — always sent in full to generation, regardless of how many summarize passes have happened since.
Once enough new material has piled up since the last summary, idyeah will suggest condensing it before generating again — keeping the context sent to the model focused rather than diluted by sheer volume.
Making an idea sharper
A vague idea tends to produce a vague action. Refine is the step in between — entirely optional, reached for when an idea feels too fuzzy to act on yet.
Tap Refine on any idea, and idyeah asks two or three genuinely specific questions about that exact idea — never generic ones like "tell me more." A good question surfaces something real that's currently missing: what "done" would actually look like, what the real first constraint is, what's stopping you from starting today.
Answer what's useful. Skip the rest — nothing is required. idyeah then offers a sharpened rewrite built only from what you actually said, which you can edit further before accepting, or discard entirely and keep the original exactly as it was.
Once an idea feels concrete enough, you can propose a next action directly from it — not from the whole interest's context, but scoped to that one idea specifically. The resulting action stays traceably linked back to the idea it came from, so you can see which of your refined ideas actually led somewhere.
From notes to something new
Generate draws from everything you've included, weighted by priority, and produces new text ideas, image concepts, or both — entirely on-device.
Choose the mode per generation. Image generation produces a concept that hands off to Apple's Image Playground; text generation produces genuinely new angles on your interest, not a restatement of what you already wrote.
On, generation uses everything included but stays anchored to your primary interest — nothing off-topic gets to steer the result, even if it's technically related. Off, everything included is weighted by priority with no extra relevance judgment layered on top.
idyeah quietly notices when your other interests share real overlap with the one you're working in, and can surface — and optionally weave into generation — ideas from across your other interests. This can be turned off entirely if you'd rather each interest stayed fully separate; doing so removes it from generation too, not just from view.
Freshly generated content sits in its own space to review before it becomes part of the interest permanently — keep what's genuinely useful, let the rest go.
A second opinion
Instead of one generic assistant, idyeah lets you consult a small panel of advisors — each with a genuinely different way of thinking about your idea, not just a different tone of voice.
Designer thinks in visual clarity and how something actually feels to use. Engineer thinks in feasibility and what's harder to build than it looks. Tracker thinks in momentum and what's drifting without a deadline. Realist thinks in risk and the gap between a plan and how things actually play out. Strategist asks whether this is even worth the time it's taking, not just whether it's a good idea in the abstract.
Build additional advisors with whatever lens matters to your own interests — idyeah decides which ones are relevant to consult for each question, usually a couple rather than the whole team at once.
The part that actually matters
This is idyeah's core belief made concrete: ideas were never the bottleneck, follow-through was. Every interest has its own list of next actions — genuinely concrete, not another idea wearing a to-do list's clothes.
Ask idyeah for a single concrete next step, drawn from everything included in the interest — or from one specific idea, once it's been refined. Proposing never duplicates something already pending.
Type an action directly — idyeah doesn't need to be the one that thought of it.
Checking an action off moves it to a collapsed, expandable list rather than deleting it. Unchecking one puts it right back at the top of what's pending — not buried wherever its original creation date happens to fall.
Handing it to real life
The moment an idea actually leaves idyeah and lands somewhere that will nag you in real life — a genuine system Reminder, not a second to-do list living inside yet another app.
No due date, a specific date and time, a quick timer in five-minute increments, or a custom duration in seconds, minutes, hours, or days. Set a default in Settings so the option you use most is always the one that opens first.
Some actions genuinely need more than a single nudge — a heads-up the day before, plus a reminder the day of. Add as many as you need, and manage or remove any of them individually.
Mark a reminder done directly in the real Reminders app, and idyeah reflects that back automatically. Delete one there, and idyeah notices and stops showing it as linked — nothing stays silently out of date.
Protecting real time
A reminder solves "don't forget." Some actions need more than that — genuinely protected time, competing for the same space on your calendar as everything else you already treat as non-negotiable.
Pick a start time and a duration — thirty minutes, an hour, two hours, or a custom length — and idyeah creates a real event on your Calendar. Like reminders, an action can have more than one block of protected time if it genuinely needs it.
When you open idyeah while a blocked event is currently in progress, its interest is marked right on the main list — a quiet, glanceable signal, not a notification.
Once a blocked time is over, idyeah asks how it went — and lets you save that as a real Story, or a plain note, or skip it entirely. Skip is a genuine, permanent choice; it won't ask about that same block again.
The honest record
A real attempt and what actually happened — worked, didn't work, mixed, or still in progress. Stories exist specifically to make room for the outcomes that aren't successes; a "didn't work" story is exactly as welcome here as any other.
Add a story directly, or turn a completed — or abandoned — action into one. The box starts empty on purpose, not pre-filled with the action's own text: an action reads as a command, not a narrative, and copying it verbatim would never actually read like a story.
The action itself stays visible as reference while you write. If you'd rather not write it yourself, idyeah can draft one from the action — using only what it was actually given, never inventing specific details it doesn't have.
Managing an interest over time
Not every interest stays active forever, and idyeah treats two different endings as genuinely different things.
For "not right now, but not done either." A shelved interest steps out of the main list without losing anything — every note, action, and piece of kept content stays exactly as it was, ready to come back anytime.
For "this actually succeeded." A different reason for leaving the active list than shelving — a genuine record of what you finished, not just paused.
Both shelved and completed interests let you choose, at the moment you set the status, whether their content should still surface in search — and that choice stays changeable afterward.
An honest picture
No streaks, no manufactured scores. Growth exists to answer one real question — is this actually helping you finish things — and shows nothing it can't honestly support.
Completed actions divided by proposed ones, calculated per interest as well as overall. When there's nothing to measure yet, Growth shows a blank rather than a misleading zero.
The most direct signal of whether idyeah is actually working the way it's meant to — not how many ideas came out, but how many interests were genuinely seen through to done.
Ideas kept against total generated, story outcomes over time, and which of your advisors you actually turn to most — every number here is something that happened, never something invented to make the app look better than it is.
Finding it again
Search across everything you've captured, generated, and kept — respecting whatever searchability choice you made for any shelved or completed interests along the way.
Taking it with you
Export an interest's content out as a file — your notes, stories, kept content, and actions, selectable individually. Import brings a file back in, either into a brand new interest or added onto an existing one, without ever replacing what's already there.
Making it yours
Two independent choices, not one combined setting.
Follows your device's own Appearance setting automatically by default, or force light or dark regardless of what the system says.
Changes the accent identity — kept and completed, pending, and didn't-work — along with a restrained, subtle tint on the page background itself. Text stays governed purely by light or dark, whichever theme is active.
How privacy works in this version
Every conversation, every piece of advice from your team, and all text generation — refining an idea, proposing an action, organizing your notes — run entirely on-device, using Apple's on-device models. Nothing you write is sent anywhere to produce a text response — this isn't a setting to enable; in this version, it's the only way that side of idyeah works.
Image generation is the one confirmed exception. It uses Apple's Private Cloud Compute rather than staying fully on-device, which means it needs an internet connection to work at all. Private Cloud Compute is still a genuinely privacy-preserving design — Apple doesn't retain what's sent, and the code running on those servers is independently verifiable — but it isn't the same as never leaving your device, so it gets stated separately here rather than folded into the on-device claim above.
There's no account to create and nothing about how you use the app is tracked. When idyeah hands an action to Reminders or Calendar, that's a deliberate, one-directional handoff you initiate — never something that happens silently on your behalf.
The same thing that keeps everything private also means your ideas currently stay on the device you created them on — idyeah doesn't sync between your iPhone and iPad. If you use idyeah on more than one device, treat each one as its own separate notebook for now.
For the full details, see the privacy policy.