“Check my emails and tell me what's come in.”
Sorted into what needs you, what's for information and what can wait, with a draft reply when you want one.
EmailChat
What you can hand to SYLVIE.
Ideas to start from, the few concepts behind how it works, and guides for setting things up. Every idea below uses something SYLVIE already does.
Ideas
Start with one of these.
Everyday
“What's the weather tomorrow? If it'll rain, add an umbrella to my list.”
Looks it up, decides, and edits your to-do file only if it should.
Web searchWorkspace
“Remember I prefer short answers.”
Saved as a fact and used in every conversation after, until you edit or delete it.
Memory
On a schedule
“Every weekday at 7, write my morning brief.”
Today's date, your open tasks and one thing to focus on, saved to the workspace and sent to your phone.
JobsWorkspacePhone
“Every evening, sort my inbox and propose a clean-up.”
A proposal you approve, not deletions it makes on its own.
JobsEmail
“Every Saturday, total the week's spending by category.”
Read from your spreadsheet export, compared with the week before, charted if you ask.
JobsCharts
Watching for you
Garage door left open
A feed from your door sensor; SYLVIE tells you only when it's been open too long and nobody's home.
FeedsPhone
A new order comes in
Logged to your orders file and summarised in one line, the moment it arrives.
FeedsWorkspace
“Check the home server every six hours.”
Silent while all is well; a heads-up when a disk fills or a service stops answering.
JobsTerminal
Building
“Make me a one-page site for a local bakery.”
Page, styles, script and logo written into a folder, previewed beside the code.
WorkspacePreview
“The tests are failing. Find the bug and fix it.”
Reads the code, makes the change, runs the tests, and shows you the diff to keep or revert.
WorkspaceTerminalGit
“Draw how this project fits together.”
A diagram drawn in the chat from the code itself, ready to copy or download.
Diagrams
How it works
Five ideas behind SYLVIE.
Off, Ask, Allow
Every action has a switch. Off: it can't. Ask: it stops and shows you an approval card. Allow: it goes ahead. Anything that changes things starts at Ask.
Two kinds of memory
Fast memory holds short facts about you and travels with each message. Long-term memory is the record of every chat, job and event, searched only when needed.
Jobs, heartbeat and feeds
Jobs run at a time you set. The heartbeat wakes it at an interval to check on things. Feeds wake it the moment something happens.
A workspace you can undo
It works in one folder you choose. Every file it changes shows in Changes, to review, keep or revert, with git for your projects.
Your model, your computer
SYLVIE is the harness; the model is your choice, local or cloud. Everything it knows is stored on the host computer, never with us.
Guides
Step by step.
Short walkthroughs for setting things up. The first are on the way.
01
Install and choose a modelWindows, macOS or Linux, then a cloud key or Ollama.
Soon02
Your first jobTurn a standing instruction into a schedule.
Soon03
Connect email, GitHub and web searchApp passwords and keys, and what each allows.
Soon04
Add a feedListen to a sensor, a price or a log, written in Python.
Soon05
Use it from your phoneRemote access through Tailscale, and notifications.
Soon06
Add an MCP serverPlug in a tool server and set what it may do.
Soon