How to use AIOS

These are the real procedures AIOS ships with — the same words its own documentation uses, published in full and free to read. Nothing here is a brochure summary of a manual that exists somewhere else. If you want to see how a system like this is documented before you buy one, this is the whole thing.

🔓 What your plan includes

AIOS comes in two halves and it is worth knowing which one you are on before you read the rest of this library.

The free plan is the whole note-first product. Your daily note, capture, completion, carry-forward, the Recommended Plan, the Daily Brief, the calendar and repeating routines, projects, search, private notes, images, the weather panel, the news reader and your phone. None of it is a trial and none of it expires. If you never pay for anything, AIOS is a journal, a planner and a project manager that works.

The paid plan adds the assistant. Asking AIOS a question, choosing which notes a model may read, choosing which model answers, generating SOPs and articles, and the prompt tools. Those are the parts that call a model, and they are the parts that cost money to run.

The prompt box itself is free and always was. Only questions need a paid plan. Typing Dentist tomorrow at 2:15pm, finished the report, move the plumber to Friday or add X to next steps is read by a parser, written to your note and done — no model, no plan needed. What a free account cannot do is ask AIOS something and get an answer back.

What the assistant costs. The note-first product — notes, the plan, the brief, the calendar, routines, projects, search and the phone app — is free and is not a trial. The part that calls an AI model is the paid plan: $15 a month, or $144 a year, and it includes AIOS Receipts, Memories Journal and AIOS Skills. Nothing switches to paid behind your back; you are asked, in words, and you can say no and keep everything you already have.

Feedback still decides what gets built. Press SUBMIT FEEDBACK in the system bar menu when something breaks, surprises you, or is missing. Almost every release for months has come straight out of somebody using AIOS and saying what was wrong.

Some guides below describe things your plan may not include. Where that is the case it is said at the top of the guide rather than left for you to discover by pressing a button that is not there. Your current plan is shown under YOUR PLAN in the system bar.

✅ How to verify you are set up

1. Sign in and open your notebook. It should be empty apart from today's note, the quick-start note and your settings note — AIOS does not file anything of its own in there.
2. Open today's Daily Note. It has a checklist that walks you through the basics.
3. Type Dentist tomorrow at 2:15pm into the prompt box and press GO. A commitment should appear in tomorrow's Schedule and on the calendar. That one sentence proves capture, the calendar and the note are all talking to each other.

⚠️ If something looks wrong

Read AIOS Basics first — most surprises are the one rule doing exactly what it says. If something is genuinely broken, press SUBMIT FEEDBACK in the system bar menu; it goes straight to a person.

The guides

• AIOS Basics — The Daily Note

  What AIOS is, the one rule everything follows, and how a line you type turns into a real task or event.

• Talking to AIOS

  The prompt box: capturing, finishing, asking, choosing which model answers, moving things around, and what to do when AIOS does not understand you.

• Scheduling and the Calendar

  Adding, editing, completing and deleting events; where a future commitment lives; repeating routines.

• The Plan and the Daily Brief

  How AIOS decides what you should do next, and how to clear something overdue.

• Notes, the Notebook and Search

  Categories, projects, private notes, search, images, and the cover note.

• What AIOS Can See

  The Context panel, the USER/AI view, and the private-note firewall.

• Writing SOPs and Articles

  Turning a note into a procedure of your own, or into an article.

• Your Phone, Your Settings

  The mobile app, installing it, personalizing AIOS, picking your own accent color, where this device keeps your notes, what works with no connection, and what happens when two devices disagree.

• Your Plan and Your AI Allowance

  What the free allowance covers, what still works when it runs out, and what AIOS does and does not know about your payment details.

• AIOS Receipts — scanning receipts into an expense log

  Photographing a receipt into an expense row, checking the figures it was not sure about, fixing anything it read wrong, and exporting the ledger to Excel, CSV or Zoho Expense. Free to try, then bought once and owned — no subscription.

• Your Photo Album and Timeline

  The private feed AIOS writes out of your daily notes, every photograph you have ever uploaded, the album templates, and sharing a post out. Free on every plan.

• Memories Journal

  A separate diary app on the same account. Write a line about your day, drop in a photo, and read it back as a timeline of your own words. What you write is an ordinary note in this vault, so AIOS can see it and nothing has to be imported. No AI in it at all. Free to try, then bought once and owned — no subscription.

• AIOS Skills

  A separate skill-tracker app on the same account. Level up real-life skills like a game: learning paths, fifty levels a skill with a new title at each, goals, achievements and a profile of your top five skills. AIOS can write a learning path for you on a plan. Free to try, then bought once and owned — no subscription.