Magicso

Magicso is an AI note-taking app for iPhone and iPad that organises saved material on the user's behalf. Content such as long articles, links, images, Word documents and PDF files is dropped into the app, and Magicso distils it, assigns tags and files it into a single-tier structure, so that notes form a searchable personal knowledge base. Magicso acts as a 'second brain' for people who collect more information than they can sort by hand.

Classification follows the PARA method (Projects, Areas, Resources and Archives), with the AI choosing where each note belongs instead of the user building folder trees. The AI also reads each note and the intent behind it to generate tags, so a note can be found later by whatever the user remembers about it. Text in a foreign language can be pasted in and comes back as a summary in the user's own language.

Beyond filing, Magicso writes for the user: short fragments jotted during the day are expanded by the AI into complete journal entries, presented as a daily 'Memory Canvas'. A numeric passcode lock keeps notes private. AI usage is metered in tokens; a membership raises the daily token limit. The App Store privacy summary lists purchases, contact info and identifiers as data that may be linked to the user.

Magicso is free to download with in-app purchases: Basic Member at $2.99, Premium Member at $19.99 and Superior Member at $39.99, sold as a monthly subscription, an annual subscription or a permanent one-time purchase. Renewals are charged to the iTunes account 24 hours before expiry. The app requires iOS 15.0 or iPadOS 15.0 or later, is also listed for Apple silicon Macs on macOS 12.0 and for Apple Vision, and is available in English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

Use cases

• Saving articles and links so they are summarised rather than forgotten
• Building a personal knowledge hub from scattered notes
• Daily journaling from quick fragments
• Reading material in foreign languages