Setting up your AI profile
The AI works much better when it knows how you actually work. This takes a few minutes and it's worth doing properly.
Written By Chirali Jain
Head to Settings → ByDesign AI.
🧠 AI Memory
This is what ByDesign has learned about you from how you use the app. Things like which hours you're most productive, how long you like tasks to be, and which goals keep slipping.
It's plain text and you can edit it directly. If something's wrong, change it. If there's something the AI should know that it hasn't picked up yet, add it.
You can also update it by voice.
⏰ Your schedule
Work hours and days — when you're available for work tasks
Personal hours and days — when you're free for everything else
This is the single most useful thing you can set. It stops the AI putting a work call at 9pm or a gym session in the middle of your workday.
🎨 Calendar blocks
Blocks are chunks of time you've set aside for a particular kind of work.
Create one, give it a name and a time range, pick the days it applies to, and then tell ByDesign what belongs in it. You can assign tags, a specific page, or a folder — or leave it open and let the AI decide.
A few that people find useful:
Deep work — Mon, Wed, Fri 9 to 11am, tagged Focus
Learning — Tue, Thu 7 to 8am, linked to a goal page
Family time — weekends, nothing scheduled
The AI respects these when it's planning, so your protected time stays protected.
⚙️ Scheduling preferences
Scheduling style — Relaxed spreads things out with breathing room. Balanced mixes focus and flexibility. Packed uses every available slot.
Default duration — how long the AI assumes a task takes when you haven't said.
Buffer between tasks — adds breathing room so you're not going straight from one thing to the next.
🔒 Protection settings
Protect external calendar events — on by default. Events from Google, Apple or Outlook stay where they are and the AI plans around them. Turn it off if you want the AI to be able to move them, though it'll still ask before it does.
Hands free voice — ByDesign listens for a wake word so you can talk to it without tapping the mic.
🎁 Earning credits
Invite a friend and you both get 100 AI credits when they subscribe. Your invite link is on the same page.
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