Make something of it

A week in, Alex has forty scribbles in the Inbox. Which is great - nothing got lost. But an Inbox that only fills up is just a nicer graveyard. The magic is the second step: turning the good ones into something you can act on.

The good news is it takes about ten seconds per scribble, and you only do it for the ones worth keeping.

Start Flow

From Inbox or the Daily Brief on Desk, hit Start Flow. You land on a focused page: one scribble at a time, your original on the card, the desk's guess next to it.

That's the ten-minute habit. You do not have to open forty detail pages.

On a keyboard: Enter accepts the suggested path. I idea, T task, D decision, C customer insight, A archive, N skip. On a phone: swipe right to accept the guess, swipe left to archive.

After you convert, the original is archived (still connected, never overwritten). Active Inbox means "not processed yet."

You can still open any scribble from Inbox if you want the full page. Flow is just the fast visit.

The four paths

Most scribbles become one of four things. Pick whichever fits:

• Turn into an idea - for a rough opportunity that isn't ready to build yet. "Per-invoice pricing" becomes an Idea. You can add the problem it solves and who it's for - but only if you know. Blank is fine.
• Turn into a task - for something you actually want to do. "Add Stripe checkout" becomes a task in Work, sorted into Today, Upcoming, or Backlog.
• Turn into a decision - for a choice you've made. "Going with monthly billing, not annual" becomes a Memory - and this is the one place worth adding a sentence: why. Future-you will thank you.
• Turn into a customer insight - for the exact sentence a customer said that should change what you build. "I don't chase invoices, it feels rude." stays in their words, in Memory, so it can come back when the theme returns.

Anything that isn't worth keeping? Archive it. It slips into the archive, out of your way, and you can restore it later if you were wrong. Skip means later - it'll still be in Inbox when you come back.

Let the AI help you think (if you want)

On a scribble or an idea, you'll see gentle AI actions:

• Summarize - tighten a rambling note.
• Expand - flesh out a one-liner.
• Challenge this - poke holes in your own thinking.
• Research - pull threads worth chasing.

On ideas specifically, you can ask it to identify assumptions, identify risks, suggest experiments, or define an MVP.

None of this is required, and none of it happens without you asking. The rule across the whole app is the same:

AI suggests. You decide. Everything is Accept, Edit, or Dismiss.

Once you've got ideas, tasks, insights, and decisions flowing, the real payoff shows up in everyday use. That's the fun part: Stories from the desk.