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Help with Make This Useful

Find answers about recordings, files, saved work, sign-in and billing, with the next step to get things working.

Is Helper a real person?The helper built into this app

No. Helper is a computer program, not a person. So is anyone you make here, and each one says so if you ask. No person types the answers.

About Helper
Find my saved workLetters, cards, lists, pictures and notes

Library holds everything you kept: letters, cards, lists, pictures and notes. Your conversations stay in Chats.

Open Library
Get help with a taskStart with a few words or something to show

Choose an idea or describe what you need on Home, adding a photo or PDF if it helps.

Open Home
Talk or Record?Choose what should happen to your words

Talk puts what you say in the box and speaks with you. Record keeps a longer recording and its words for you to review.

Open Voice
Keep or recover a recordingA longer take you can review later

Open Record to start or recover a take on this device. Pause and resume when needed, then Finish to review its words and original audio. Continue in background lets you use other parts of the app; use the recording bar to return.

Open Record
Change the writing size or lookHow you like it: writing, look, Talk first, detail

Choose your writing size, look, Talk first or Type first, and how much detail in You › How you like it. You can also say “bigger writing”.

Open How you like it
Choose who can see my workChoose who can open what you share

Open your chat or kept thing and choose Share to review who can see it.

Open Library
Homes and businessesOne sign-in, separate places for work

Keep Mom’s things apart from yours in You › Homes and businesses › Add a home. Use the name at the top to switch between them.

Choose a home or business
Check my plan or renewalWhat your plan includes, its price and renewal

You › Plan shows what your plan includes, its price and when it renews. Asking, look-ups, reminders, notes and changes to anything you made are never counted.

Open Plan
Keep an appliance’s detailsSave a photo or what you already know

Save a photo and what you know about an appliance, then add its label or papers later.

Keep an appliance’s details
Put a plan in my phone calendarReview the event, then complete the calendar step

Review the event’s date, time and repetition, then open its calendar file and confirm it in your calendar.

Find the plan in Library
Get past sign-in or an email codeWrong email, expired code or forgotten password

Check the email above the code field and request a new code if yours expired or did not arrive.

Open sign-in
Continue after a connection problemCheck what finished before trying again

Reopen your chat to check whether its answer finished before sending again.

Open Chats
Manage privacy or sign-in securitySee what we keep, get a copy, or delete your account

Open Privacy & data to review what an export or deletion will include before confirming.

Open Privacy & data
What is a board?Pictures in a project

A board is a project that’s mostly pictures, like your verses or party ideas. Open the project’s Pictures to see them together.

Open Library
What is a project?One thing you have going on

A project is something you’ve got going on, like the kitchen or Leo’s party. It keeps its chats, papers, pictures and dates together and remembers what you told it.

Open Library
Chats or Library?Conversations and the things you kept

Chats holds your conversations. Library holds the things you kept, such as letters, cards, lists and pictures.

Open Chats
What is Updates?What came in and what needs you

Updates shows what came in while you were away, your reminders and things that need you.

Open Updates
Where is what Helper remembers?Read, change or delete a detail

What Helper remembers is in You › About me. Tap a detail to change or delete it.

Open About me
How do I use something again?Make another like it

Use again makes another like it with new details. Open it, tap ⋯, then Use again, or say ‘the same card for Joan’.

Open Library
Still need help?

Tell us what you tried and what happened. Support details stay here until you choose to share them.

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