Built-in toolkits
A quick tour of the toolkits most customers end up using. This isn’t every toolkit in the library; it’s the ones that pay back for most people.
Each section is “what it is, what it’s good for, what one use of it looks like”.
A thinking surface for ideas that aren’t ready to be projects. Already covered in detail in Ideas.
What it adds: an Ideas sidebar view, a set of “lens” playbooks that produce structured analyses (comparison chart, risk analysis, pros/cons, argument-against), and a graduation flow that turns an idea into a project.
One use: Capture an idea on Telegram while driving. Open it on the web later, run the comparison lens, decide whether to graduate or drop.
Content production at scale. For anyone who creates regularly: newsletter, podcast, blog, YouTube, social posts.
What it adds: A Forge sidebar view, content type definitions (what’s a “post”, what’s an “episode”), production playbooks (research, draft, edit, format), and goals that keep a content pipeline flowing on schedule.
One use: Define “weekly newsletter” as a content type. Set a goal “produce one newsletter per week on Thursdays, draft by Tuesday.” Forge runs research jobs on relevant topics, drafts a candidate, holds it for your edits, formats for your distribution channel.
The shared primitive, already covered in Lists.
What it adds: A Lists sidebar view (which is also accessible inside any project), category-based grouping, bulk operations, attachment to other entities.
One use: Maintain a standing shopping list. Ask Jarvis on Telegram while you’re cooking: “add eggs and butter to the shopping list.” Next time you’re at the store, check items off as you go.
Finance
Section titled “Finance”Personal or small-business financial primitives.
What it adds: A Finance sidebar view, accounts (bank, credit card, brokerage), transactions, categories, budgets, reports. Optional connector to your bank for automatic transaction sync.
One use: Connect a bank. Set a goal “every Sunday, summarize last week’s spending by category and flag anything unusual.” Every Sunday you get a snapshot with anomalies called out.
Customer / contact relationship management.
What it adds: A CRM sidebar view, contacts with rich records (interactions, deals, notes), pipelines (leads, opportunities, customers), and playbooks for common moves (follow-ups, status reports, renewal reminders).
One use: Track which prospects have replied to your initial outreach. Set a follow-up: “If a prospect hasn’t replied in 5 days, draft a polite nudge for me to approve.”
Game Arcade
Section titled “Game Arcade”Yes, this is a toolkit. Casual games (chess, solitaire variants, word games) that you can play with your AI as the opponent or partner.
What it adds: A Game Arcade sidebar view with playable games.
One use: Need a 5-minute break. Play a quick game of chess against your AI. Get back to work.
There’s no productivity claim here. It’s a small thing that’s pleasant to have.
Brainstorm
Section titled “Brainstorm”A structured ideation toolkit, separate from Ideas. Ideas is for capturing and growing a specific thought. Brainstorm is for generating many in one session.
What it adds: A Brainstorm view with session-based workflows (define a problem, generate many candidates, cluster, prioritize, pick).
One use: Need to come up with names for the new product. Run a brainstorm session: “Generate 50 candidate names, cluster by tone, narrow to the top 10, run a quick check on domain availability.”
Recipes
Section titled “Recipes”For households that cook. Recipes, meal plans, shopping list integration.
What it adds: A Recipes view, structured recipe records, meal planning, automatic shopping list generation from a week’s plan.
One use: Plan the week. “Cook five dinners this week using ingredients we already have plus one shop. Suggest a menu and produce the shopping list.”
Travel
Section titled “Travel”Travel planning, itinerary tracking, bookings management.
What it adds: A Travel view, itinerary records, booking imports (from forwarded confirmations), packing lists, and goals that handle pre-trip prep (check-in reminders, weather forecasts, currency conversion).
One use: Forward a flight confirmation. Travel parses it, creates the trip record, adds calendar events, asks if you want a packing list generated for the destination and weather.
Habits
Section titled “Habits”Daily and weekly habit tracking with light-touch nudging.
What it adds: A Habits view, defined habits with cadences, daily check-ins, streak tracking, and goals that nudge you on schedule.
One use: Track three habits (run, read, meditate). Each evening, your AI asks if you did them. Each Sunday you get a weekly summary.
Decisions
Section titled “Decisions”A toolkit for high-stakes decisions where you want a structured trail.
What it adds: A Decisions view, decision records with framing/options/criteria/outcome, retrospectives.
One use: You’re deciding between two contractors. Open a decision record, list criteria (cost, quality, timeline, references), score each contractor, log your choice with reasoning. Six months later, retrospect: “Did this go the way I thought?”
Inventory
Section titled “Inventory”Tracking physical things you own. Useful for households with hobbies (woodworking, photography, kitchen equipment) or small businesses.
What it adds: An Inventory view, structured items with location, condition, value, and history. Playbooks for “where is X” and “what do I have of Y type”.
One use: Track power tools across your garage and workshop. Ask “where’s the impact driver?” and your AI tells you.
Reading
Section titled “Reading”A reading queue with notes, highlights, and progress.
What it adds: A Reading view, a queue of articles and books, notes per item, finished/ongoing/dropped states.
One use: Forward a long article you don’t have time to read now. Reading queues it. Later, ask Jarvis to summarize the top three unread items so you can decide which is worth reading in full.
What’s NOT a toolkit
Section titled “What’s NOT a toolkit”It’s worth saying which capabilities are core (not toolkits, so always present):
- Chat, conversation, knowledge graph, memory.
- Projects, programs, tasks.
- Channels (web, Telegram, email, Slack).
- AI provider configuration.
- Users, permissions, billing.
Toolkits are the modular layer on top of that. The core works without any toolkit installed.
Picking what to install first
Section titled “Picking what to install first”If you’re a heavy email/calendar user: nothing more is needed initially. The defaults are plenty.
If you produce content: Forge.
If you sell or manage relationships: CRM.
If you want to think through ideas before committing: Ideas (already installed for most).
If you manage personal money: Finance.
If you cook for a household: Recipes.
If you read a lot: Reading.
If you’re not sure: install nothing extra. Use Jootle bare for a couple of weeks, notice where you wish it had a sharper tool, then install that.