Writing

Hand it the writing. It drafts emails, social posts, reports, and summaries, or takes a second pass at something you already started, in your agent's own voice. It never sends or posts anything: every draft comes back to you first.

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Anybody who has promised themselves a weekly post knows the two ways it dies. The first is the blank page on the morning it is due. The second is quieter: three years in, nobody remembers what has already been covered, so the same piece gets written again with a different title and the readers notice before the writer does.

This keeps both from happening. It holds a record of everything you have published, and it reads that record before it writes a word, so a subject that has been covered comes back as “you wrote this in March, here is a different angle” rather than as a repeat.

And it writes from what your business actually did, not from a prompt. What your customers have been asking in your mail, what was said on your recorded calls, what you shipped or fixed or changed, and whatever material you have uploaded. Ask what you should write about and you get a subject with a reason attached.

It fits what it writes to where it is going: a blog post, release notes, a letter to customers, an update to members, each with its own readers, length and sound, kept as a row you can edit.

Nothing it writes is published. No tool here reaches a website or a mailing platform, so it hands you the finished piece and you put it out. Tell it you did and the archive stays true.

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Stuck on how to answer something? Paste it in and say "help me reply". Your agent reads the room, who it's from and how it lands, and hands you a few options in genuinely different tones: warm, brief, firm. It can rework something you've already written too ("make this sound less harsh"). And when you're the one starting: say "thank you note for my neighbor who watched the dog" and it asks the one or two things it needs, then hands you two versions to pick from, both in your voice. It handles the hard ones with real care: condolences kept simple and honest, and toasts written to be said out loud, not read. Either way, it remembers how you like to sound, so everything reads like you typed it.

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This one is Mac only, because it reads the Messages app on the computer Archie runs on. Messages does not have to be open. It reads one account and only one: the Apple ID signed in to Messages on this Mac. If your texts land on a phone signed in to a different Apple ID, none of them reach Archie. Open Messages on this Mac, and what you can see there is exactly what it can see.

Your phone buzzes all day and most of it is not for you. This works out which of them are actually waiting on an answer, and tells you about those.

When one is, you get a card: who texted, what they said, and the reply already written. Send it, tap Change it to fix or rewrite it, or Dismiss it. The reply goes out from your own number, in your own thread, exactly as if you had typed it.

What it does not tell you about: verification codes, delivery notices, the ones that end in "reply STOP", and anything you add to its ignore list. Those are dropped before your AI account is touched, so the running cost follows your real conversations rather than your junk. Group chats are off until you turn them on, because a reply there goes to everyone at once.

It also catches what you owe people. When a text leaves you on the hook, "can you get me the invoice by friday", you get a reminder at a time that is useful, not at the deadline itself. Turn on the second half and it reads what you send too, which is where the promises actually are: "I'll send that tonight" is the one people drop, and it is in your own outgoing messages. That half is off until you ask for it, because it doubles what gets read.

Answer someone yourself on your phone and that conversation's card goes away. It watches your side of the thread too, so it knows when a question has already been dealt with.

On a shared agent it stays yours alone: that Apple ID is the owner's.

Works with

• Messages on a Mac

Setting up Text Replies

1. Give Archie Full Disk Access: System Settings, Privacy & Security, Full Disk Access, then switch Archie on. macOS keeps your messages private until you do, so nothing arrives before this and there is no error to tell you why.
2. The first time you press Send, macOS asks whether Archie may control Messages. Say yes. Reading works without it; sending does not.

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Nobody runs out of things to say. They run out on a Tuesday morning with the app already open, which is not the same thing and is the only moment that counts.

This keeps a queue. Not ideas, which are the part you could have had yourself, but posts written out in full, in your voice, at the length that place takes, each with a note on what picture or clip would go with it. You open the list, copy one, post it.

What goes in the queue comes from what actually happened: a job you finished, something you shipped, a question a customer asked twice, a number worth saying out loud, what was said on a recorded call. General advice about your trade is what every other account in it is already posting, so it stays rare here on purpose.

It cannot see your accounts and it does not pretend to. No likes, no views, no follower counts, because nothing here can reach a platform to read them. Nothing posts itself either. You post, you say “posted that one”, and the queue learns what has already gone out so the next batch is not a repeat.

Tell it how anything did and it keeps that too. That is the only feedback it will ever get, and it reads it back before writing for that account again.

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Posting means opening the app, finding the photo again, typing the caption on a phone keyboard, and doing it at the hour it should go out rather than the hour you thought of it.

Send the photo here instead and say “post this tomorrow at 9, something about the fall colors”. Your agent writes the caption in your voice, shows you the words and which picture, and posts it when you say yes. A time you pick is kept by Zernio, so it goes out even if this computer is off. If you keep a queue in Ready to Post, it can post one of those, word for word, and mark it posted.

It reaches Instagram through Zernio, which holds your Instagram sign-in: link Instagram there once, then paste Zernio’s key here. Instagram only lets a business or creator account post this way. Once a post is live on Instagram it can’t be taken down from Archie, and the card says so before you say yes.

Works with

• Zernio

Setting up Social Posting

1. Make a free Zernio account and link your Instagram on its Accounts page. Instagram only lets a business or creator account post this way, and you can switch to one in Instagram’s own settings.
2. Open API keys and press Create API key. Name it Archie.
3. Zernio shows the key once, so copy it before you leave the page.

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The piece is due Friday, you remember on Friday, and what gets written is whatever you could think of at four in the afternoon. That is how a good blog becomes a thin one.

This looks ahead instead. Each weekday morning it reads what you publish and when each one is next due, and when something is coming up in the next few days it does the work before you would have: reads back over what you have already put out so it does not repeat one, looks at what your customers have been asking, what was said on your recorded calls and what has changed in the business, and writes the piece.

What arrives is a finished draft with two lines above it, one naming the deadline and one saying where the subject came from. If the subject turns out to be one you covered before, it says which piece and when, and gives you the three real choices instead of writing it again.

When there is genuinely nothing worth writing about, it says so and names what it looked at. A quiet week is an answer. And on every day with nothing due, which is most days, it says nothing at all.

Works with

• Writing Desk skill

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A queue of posts only works if it never runs empty, and noticing that it is nearly empty is exactly the kind of thing nobody does until the morning they need one.

This counts, once a week. It reads how often each of your accounts is meant to post and how many posts are waiting for it, and it leaves you alone unless one of them is thin. When one is, it reads back over everything you have already posted so it repeats nothing, looks at what has actually happened in your work since it last looked, and writes enough to fill the gap.

What arrives is finished posts, not ideas, plus a line saying how many are now waiting for each account.

When nothing real has happened, it says so and asks what you have been working on rather than filling the queue with general advice about your trade. That question gets better posts than five pieces of filler would.

Works with

• Ready To Post skill

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Everyone has the same problem with the same message: it is written, it is a third too long, and the parts that are too long are the parts that were hardest to write. The Editor takes it and gives back the sendable version. The revision comes first, plain and ready to copy, and any note about what changed sits underneath in a line or two.

It cuts the throat clearing opener, the hedges, the apology for taking up space, and the sentence that only repeats the subject line. What it does not cut is you. Casual stays casual, warm stays warm, and your sign-off survives, because a message that no longer sounds like you is a failed edit no matter how clean it reads.

Its most useful habit is naming the one place a reader will actually get lost, which is rarely the sentence you were worried about. And it will tell you when a message should be a phone call, or should wait until morning.

The Editor in a conversation

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