How EchoMuse works

Say what's on your mind. EchoMuse listens, helps you act on it, and quietly gathers the books hiding in your life.

Today

The line at the top is where you write or talk. One sentence counts. Tap it, say what's on your mind, then tap Save it.
The green line counts what you did today: notes, steps done and book answers. Tap any part to see it. It only ever counts what you did, never what you didn't.
Your one thing is the next small step of your most important goal. Everything else is folded under "Also on your list".
Notes today lists today's notes. Tap one to open it.
Still true? Once a week, Today may show one note from a few weeks ago. Tap "Still true" (and turn it into a plan if you like) or "Not anymore". Either answer is fine, and each note is only shown once.
From your books shows the question one of your books is waiting on. Tap it to answer.

Your notes

After you save a note, EchoMuse replies once: something it noticed, a kinder way to see it, a question or a quote. Then you choose: keep it, do something with it, or go deeper.
Tap any note (on Today, in Journal or in Calendar) to open it in full. You'll see the question you were answering, the reply, and anything that came from it.
Tap Edit to fix or change a note. Your edit replaces it.
The Journal tab shows what you journaled, day by day. Answers you give to a book live with that book, and notes written while working on a step live with the plan.

Plans

Tap Add a goal and say what you want to make real. Two short questions (what's in the way, and why) help shape the plan. You can skip them.
Each goal shows only its next step. Tap Work on it to do the step right there, with help if you want it.
Goals move from Thought to Plan to Project to Reality on their own as you take steps.
EchoMuse groups your goals under a few themes. Tap Rename beside a theme to put it in your own words.
You can set a date on a step if you like. It never turns into "late" or "missed".

Books

Your shelf shows the stories forming in your journal: the themes you keep coming back to, in your own words. Each one grows as you write about it. Tap one to read its notes.
Start a book three ways: answer six questions, describe an idea you already have, or tick notes from your journal.
Open a book and it asks one question at a time. Each answer is a book answer: it's saved in the book as a "moment" and counted on Today.
Read your book so far shows your own words in story order. Tap "See the question" under any piece to see what you were answering.
After five moments, Read it as a book appears. It puts your words into chapters with titles. Where two pieces need a bridge, EchoMuse may add one short linking line. Each one is marked as written by EchoMuse, and you can remove it. Your own words are not changed.
From there you can download the book as a text file.
Nothing you journal goes into a book unless you choose it.

On iPhone

EchoMuse works like an app once it's on your Home Screen: its own icon, full screen, and it opens even without signal (anything that needs EchoMuse to reply waits until you're back online).

Tap the Share buttonin Safari (at the bottom, or beside the address bar).
Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen. On newer iPhones it may sit under More.
Tap Add. EchoMuse now opens from its own icon, full screen, like any app.

The Home Screen app keeps its own journal, separate from Safari. If you wrote notes in Safari first, sign in there and then in the app, and they come with you.

Your words

Your notes stay on this device unless you sign in, which saves them to your account so they follow you between devices.
Read your words, and where they go for the details.