User Guide · The Canvas & Apps

The canvas, and the apps that live on it.

Some answers are better shown than said — a comparison, a live tracker, a running list. When that happens, your agent opens a small app next to the conversation instead of describing it in words. (Some settings screens still call them widgets — same thing.)

Where they come from

Most of the time you don't ask for an app by name — you just ask for the thing, and it decides an app is the right way to answer. Ask "what's on my plate today" and your agenda opens; ask for hotels in Seville and the options open as a results sheet; ask for a trailer and the video player opens; ask for a ten-minute timer and the timer opens. You can also ask directly — "open the app for X" works the same way.

Controlling one by voice

Every app on screen understands the same handful of voice moves — no need to touch anything:

action	say	what happens
Show it	“Open the timer” / “show me my messages”	Opens by name — or an alias you've given it.
Close it	“Close that” / “close the agenda and the messages”	Closing just hides it — nothing is lost.
Make room	“Full screen” / “tidy up the apps”	Fills the screen with one app, or arranges them all in a grid.
Change what's in it	“Mark that task done” / “add the dentist on Friday at five”	Talks to the app directly, no need to touch the screen.
Rename it	“Call this one my trading board”	Teaches it a nickname — use that from now on instead of its default name.
Delete it	“Delete the countdown app”	Always asks to confirm first. A built-in app can be brought back; one you created is gone for good.
Put it back	“Put the music app back to the original”	Drops your own version of a built-in app, or brings back a built-in one you deleted — after a yes.

If you've renamed an app, its old name still quietly works too — you're never punished for forgetting your own alias.

Closing a card doesn't stop your reminders

Your agenda keeps working when its card is closed: when a reminder is due, it shows up on screen and your agent says it out loud. Closing an app just tidies the screen.

Ask for one that doesn't exist yet Beta

If nothing on the canvas already does what you want, just describe it — "build me an app that tracks how many days until my trip" — and your agent writes and installs a small app for exactly that, on the spot. It's a real, working piece of software from that point on, not a mockup. Custom apps and the Apps tab, where they all live, are in beta: built and usable, still being proven.

Your agent always asks first. Building a new card, or rewriting one you already have, is the one thing it will never start on its own — it reads back what it understood ("you're asking me to build you a new card…") and waits for a yes. Say no, or say nothing, and nothing is written. That's deliberate: it's the difference between an assistant that helps and one that quietly fills your canvas with things you half-said.

Once you've said yes: building a new app takes real thinking, so it happens a little slower than a normal reply (roughly a minute) — you'll be told it's being built, and it'll open automatically the moment it's ready.

Change one, or share it Beta

Ask for a change to a built-in app — "make the agenda show the whole week" — and you get your own version of it, after a yes like any other build. The original stays underneath and keeps getting updates, so going back is one sentence away. An app is a plain folder, so you can share it: on a self-hosted install, drop someone's app folder into your apps folder and your agent picks it up and drives it by voice. Your data stays behind — sharing an app never shares what you stored in it. More in Technology → Apps.

Nothing risky happens by accident

Reading an app's data, updating it, opening or closing it — no confirmation needed. Deleting one is the exception: you'll always be asked to confirm, by voice or with a button, before it's gone.