Your notes can work with AI assistants

Soot doesn’t write for you. But if you use an AI assistant, your notes can give it useful context: things you’ve looked into, decisions you’ve made and details you’d otherwise have to explain again.

Your notes are ordinary files. An AI assistant you choose can read and work with those files, if you give it access.

Your notes, in the conversation

Your notes give an AI assistant context it wouldn’t otherwise have. It could pull together the next steps from your meeting notes, help plan meals from recipes you’ve saved, or find the filter size for your air purifier.

They can also preserve the reasoning behind a decision. You might have ruled out a laptop because it couldn’t run an app you need. Months later, the assistant can find that reason and check whether the limitation still applies.

As you work together, it can update notes when something changes or save what you’ve worked out for next time.

It reads and writes the same files you open in Soot. There’s no separate export to keep up to date, and you can read and edit the results yourself.

Teaching it how your library works

Soot can give an AI assistant instructions for working with your library on the Mac. These instructions are called a skill.

They explain how to search your notes before answering questions about them, how titles and filenames work, and how to move a note to Recently Deleted rather than delete it outright. They also cover links and attachments.

The skill also walks you through giving an assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT access to your notes on the Mac.

You decide how it writes

You can add your own instructions about how you want your notes written and which folders they belong in.

You might ask for short paragraphs, recipes in Food, or decisions recorded without the whole conversation that led to them.

The skill tells the assistant to write notes as you. If a note says “I”, it means you, rather than an assistant writing about “the user”. These are instructions for the assistant to follow, so you should still check what it writes.

Asking Siri

You can ask Siri AI questions about your notes: “Why did I rule out that laptop?” or “What size filter does the air purifier take?” It can find the reasoning behind a decision or a detail you saved so you wouldn’t have to remember it. You can also ask it to summarise the note you’re reading.

If you have Siri AI on your iPhone, iPad or Mac, this is free and needs no setup in Soot.

Who sees your notes

Soot doesn’t send your notes directly to an AI service.

For Siri, Soot adds your notes to Spotlight’s index on your device, as Apple Notes does, so Siri can find them. Siri may send the contents it uses to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute to answer your question.

Other AI assistants read your library when you give them access. A hosted assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT sends what it reads to its provider to process your request.

Which assistant you use is your choice. What leaves your device, and how it’s handled, depends on that assistant and its provider’s privacy rules.

Soot still works without an assistant

Nothing in Soot rewrites what you type or offers to. You can write, browse and search your notes without setting up an AI assistant.

The skill is available on the Mac. Siri AI can answer questions about your notes on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Neither requires Soot Pro.