Welcome to Toby
Toby is a native macOS app that organizes and summarizes work across integrations like Email, Todoist, Slack, Jira, and Apple Calendar. A SwiftUI interface gives you chat, configuration, recordings, schedules, and skills in one place, all backed by a local background service that runs on your Mac.
It combines:
- Integrations — connect services and use them from chat
- Personas — shape how the assistant prioritizes and responds
- Skills — reusable task instructions Toby applies when relevant
- Memories — durable context Toby remembers across sessions
- Projects — Scoped chats, skills, and memories for a specific context
- Recordings — audio recordings with transcriptions and chat integration
- Schedules — recurring prompts or flows that run automatically
- Flows — tool + persona + LLM pipelines (dashboard blurbs plus custom macros you create)
Where to go next
| Topic | Start here |
|---|---|
| What Toby can do | What Does Toby Do? |
| Install Toby and set up AI | Install → Set up AI → AI providers |
| Connect Email, Todoist, and more | Configure & connect → Integrations |
| Chat apps (Slack tools + @mentions) | Chat surfaces · Slack |
| Start chatting | Your first chat |
| Use the native app | Toby.app |
| Personas, skills, memories, schedules, flows | Personas · Skills · Memories · Schedules · Flows |
| Settings not covered elsewhere | Configuration · Web Search · Weather |
| Credentials, encryption, backup | Security |
| Real-world workflows | Examples |
| Build your own integration | Creating a plugin |
| Local APIs (daemon + Toby.app native) | Local APIs · Server API · Native API |