Your first 24 hours

Welcome to Littlebird! This guide will help you transform Littlebird from a blank slate into a powerful, personal assistant that understands your work in your first 24 hours.

Step 1: Let Littlebird get to know you (the first hour)

This is the easiest step: just work as you normally would.

Read articles, catch up on emails, respond to Slack messages, draft a document—whatever is part of your typical workflow. You'll see the Littlebird icon in your Mac menu bar (located at the top right of the screen), which indicates that context collection is active.

What's happening in the background?

As you work, Littlebird is quietly and securely building its initial understanding of your focus and habits. It's not recording your screen or logging keystrokes. Instead, it reads the text and elements of your active windows to build a short-term memory of your activity.

Step 2: Your first conversation

After about an hour, Littlebird will have enough context to show you what it can do.

Open the Littlebird app and try one of these prompts in Chat. The results will be based entirely on the context it has gathered.

Try asking:

What do you know about me so far?
What it does: This prompt is a great way to see how Littlebird has understood your high-level activities and topics of focus. It will give you a summary of the themes it has identified from your work.
Based on my recent activity, create a to-do list for me.
What it does: Littlebird can identify potential action items from your emails and documents, helping you organize your next steps automatically.

Now, to really see Littlebird in action as an assistant, try using this prompt:

Summarize 3 different projects I’m working on. Outline the next steps I should take along with any relevant links or info I should reference to complete them. Then show me an example of what the completed step could look like.
What it does: Littlebird acts as a true project partner, helping you organize the scope of your work by synthesizing project summaries and brainstorming next steps.

Step 3: Three things to try before day one ends

Before you wrap up, try these three simple actions to get a feel for Littlebird's core features.

Create your first Routine: Routines are prompts that execute on a scheduled frequency of your choosing. If you find yourself writing the same prompts into Chat over and over, you don’t have to. Simply create a new Routine, write a prompt, set a schedule, and let Littlebird deliver the responses to you automatically.
- Use this to create automated morning briefings or end-of-day reports about your desired topics, or run web searches around a topic like Job Openings to be delivered every day
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Explore your journal: After 24 hours, click the Daily Journal tab in the left-hand menu. You'll see an automatically generated timeline of your day's activities, applications you used, and documents or links you viewed. It's a powerful way to review your focus without any manual tracking.

Beyond 24 hours: What's next?

You've now experienced the fundamentals of Littlebird. You've seen how it gathers context, how you can interact with that context through Chat, and how it automatically journals your day.

The real power of Littlebird unfolds as you begin to use it more intentionally. To continue your journey, we recommend exploring these topics next:

If you have any questions or feedback, email us at support@littlebird.ai.