Hello vs Posato

MYNAH is a personal knowledge instrument — a second brain that has read everything you've read and remembers how you think about it. Save an article, a YouTube video, a podcast, a PDF, a newsletter, or a quick voice memo — or follow a feed and let new posts arrive on their own. MYNAH reads the full text of all of it, even transcribing videos and audio, then files it, tags it, and makes it recallable. Then just ask. Instead of searching, you have a conversation: MYNAH answers in your own accumulated context and shows you exactly which of your saved sources it drew from. No hallucinated "general knowledge" dressed up as insight — grounded answers, cited. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Save anything you read, watch, or hear — articles, YouTube videos, podcasts, PDFs, and newsletters, captured with a tap. Video and audio are transcribed, so you can chat with them like any article. • Follow feeds — subscribe to the writers and publications you love, and new posts arrive automatically. • Text a link to save — send anything to your MYNAH number; no app needed. • Record voice memos — your own takes, transcribed and searchable, attachable to what prompted them. • Ask across everything — "What have I saved about money, and what should I do differently?" — and get a synthesized answer with sources. • Browse your Library — auto-organized by category, filterable by type and topic. • Recall past conversations — your thinking, kept. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT Most read-it-later apps are where articles go to die. MYNAH is built to be used: the more you save, the sharper it gets, because every answer is grounded in your own reading — and it tells you which sources it used, so you can trust and follow up. Named after the birds in Aldous Huxley's Island that called out "Attention! Here and now!" — MYNAH's purpose is the same: to bring your own reading and thinking into focus. Private by design. Your library is yours.

Choose the websites and apps you want to step away from, keep them in pause sets, then start a pause on your iPhone or plan pauses ahead with a schedule. Give yourself time to read, work, or be somewhere else. PAUSE ON YOUR TERMS Pick a pause set and a duration: a quick choice from 25 minutes to 8 hours, Until end of day, or your own length on the timer. Posato uses Apple's Screen Time controls to pause that set for the session. You can deliberately end it early or remove Posato at any time. The pause gives you a moment to reconsider before opening something out of habit. PAUSE SETS Keep a set for each kind of pause, such as one for work and one for evenings. Each set has its own websites and apps, and one is the default. When pauses overlap, Posato pauses everything in their sets, within each device's limits, until the last one that includes an item ends. SCHEDULES Plan recurring pauses by weekday and time, each with its own pause set, such as weekday mornings or every evening. A schedule starts and ends on its own, even when Posato is closed. Skip the next one or end one early when plans change. Posato can tell you when a pause ends or when one starts on another device. BREAKS AND BRIEF VISITS During a scheduled pause, take one break of 5, 10, or 15 minutes; restrictions return on their own. For a website you want to check now and then, such as the news, let it open briefly during a pause: every 30 minutes, hour, or 2 hours, for 5, 10, or 15 minutes. Session shows when it opens next. OPTIONAL ICLOUD SYNC Link your iPhone and Mac through your Apple Account to sync pause sets with their websites, sessions, and schedules. App choices stay on each device. Changes are encrypted on your device before they reach your private iCloud database. FOLDER SYNC AND OTHER DEVICES Instead of iCloud, you can keep your workspace in a folder that iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or another service keeps in sync. Posato writes only encrypted files there and syncs the folder when you open the app. Folder sync also links Posato on Windows and Linux computers; posato.app has the downloads. Add a device by choosing the same folder and scanning a QR code. Sync can be delayed or fail to arrive, and Posato cannot wake a sleeping device. The Mac app is a separate download for Apple silicon and Intel Macs. After a one-time setup there, pauses and schedules start without asking for your password each time. EXPORT AND IMPORT Save your pause sets, their websites, and your schedules to a file, optionally protected by a code, and import it on another device, such as a Mac on another Apple Account. App choices stay on each device. NO POSATO ACCOUNT No analytics, usage scores, streaks, or Posato-operated server. Posato follows your iPhone's language in English, Polish, German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Your choices stay on your devices unless you turn on sync. Posato is open source under the Apache License 2.0. BEFORE YOU START Screen Time permission is required on iPhone. The system may keep restrictions in place after a pause ends. For sessions shorter than 15 minutes, keep Posato open at the end or open it again to clear them. If you use Posato on more than one device, update all of them: devices on an earlier version stop syncing until they update.