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Mags · Magpies & Co · Updated August 21, 2026
The short version: a few keywords always work, whatever else is going on. Everything else you can just say in your own words — and below, what each part of Mags does and how to use it.
The keywords that always work
- STOP — no more texts, immediately. One confirmation, then silence.
- START — come back. Everything Mags was holding is still held.
- HELP — the essentials by text, any time.
And in the thread itself: “What can you do” gets the tour, any time.
Holding things
Text Mags anything you need off your mind and she holds it. No app, no form, no format — your words are the entry.
Grab batteries next time I’m at the store
Got it. I’ll hold it.
my list
Holding these. Things to do: 1. Grab batteries at the store
- “my list” reads back everything open. Tasks come numbered; events, places and stray sparks are listed alongside.
- She sorts what you send onto shelves — things to do, things coming up, places worth remembering, shiny things you want back later — and you can move anything by saying so: “that’s an event”.
- A big thing can carry steps under it. Finish the big thing and the steps close with it.
Big things break themselves down
The hardest part of a big task is starting it. Hand Mags something daunting — the taxes, a letter to draft, a room to sort out — and she splits it into a few concrete steps on her own, the first one small enough to start in two minutes. Simple errands stay whole; nobody needs “call the pharmacy” in three parts.
I need to file my taxes
File my taxes, broken down: 1. Find last year’s return in the files 2. Make a pile of every tax form 3. Open the filing website and log in Say done with any of them.
- The steps live under the task — one line on your list, folded on the dashboard with a “steps inside” chip — and “done” with any step closes just that step. Finish the big thing and they all close with it.
- You can also ask for it in as many words — “break it down”, “with subtasks” — about anything, big or small.
Reminders and times
Name a time and it is kept exactly. Your times are yours: a reminder you set for 10pm arrives at 10pm, whatever her quiet hours are doing.
Remind me to call the vet tomorrow at 2pm
Scheduled. call the vet, tomorrow at 2pm.
- A bare time (“5pm”) gets a question, not a guess — she asks what the time is for before anything is set.
- If a new time lands on something you already hold, nothing is saved until you decide: she flags it and asks — keep both, or swap it in?
- “Push it to later” and “move it to Friday” both work in plain words, on whatever she just asked about or whatever you name.
Finishing and dropping
Say a thing is done and it closes, named back to you so you can see the right one went. Dropping is an equal answer — never a failure.
Dry cleaning pick up is done
Pick up the dry cleaning, done. Off your plate.
- Your words don’t need to match the list — the words themselves find the item, in any order.
- After she reads your list back, the printed numbers work: “done 2”, “remove 1 2”, “drop 4”.
- She never closes a guess. If it isn’t clear which one you mean, she asks — and “never mind” never deletes anything.
Handing her bigger work
Some things aren’t one line — a trip to pack for, a paper to break down, a plumber to find. Hand it over and the finished piece comes back as a link: a page you can keep, tick through, and reopen any time.
I need a plumber near me for a leaking water heater
On it. Give me a bit and I’ll come back.
Shortlist’s ready: textmags.com/a/…
- Checklists, shortlists with real options, research packets with a plan in order, and study schedules that arrive as sessions — ask in your own words.
- If she needs one thing from you first, she asks one question and waits — the work starts the moment you answer.
- Every piece you’ve handed her is on the dashboard under She’s on it, with where it stands and a button to open the finished page.
- “Any update on the packing list?” always gets a straight answer — asking about work never starts a second copy of it.
Your day, one place
“my day” sends a link to a single page with today on it — what’s held, what’s timed, what’s coming. When a list is too long for texts, she sends what fits and puts the whole thing on the page.
my day
Here’s your day: textmags.com/a/…
- Pages ask a six-digit code the first time a new browser opens one — the link alone is never the key to your day.
Photos of flyers and papers
Text a picture of the flyer, the permission slip, the appointment card. She reads it, holds the thing with its date, and confirms what she read back to you.
📷 (a photo of the school bake sale flyer)
Read that as the bake sale, Friday 3pm. Say if I got it wrong.
- The picture itself is read once and deleted — it is never stored.
- A caption rides along: “remind me about this Friday morning” sets the time; “also grab milk” is held as its own thing.
- If the flyer’s time collides with something you already hold, she flags it and asks before anything is set — same as a typed time.
The morning note
Once she’s holding a few things for you, a short note arrives each morning naming up to three of them and calling that the whole day — everything else keeps. It starts on its own; the first one tells you how to stop them, and one phrase does it, forever.
Shape of today: call the vet and the school form. That’s the day — everything else keeps. Say "no more mornings" any time and these stop.
- It lands when your quiet hours end, and reads what she holds that morning — finish something overnight and it’s not on the note.
- Go quiet on it for a couple of mornings and she offers to stop; stay quiet and she steps back to one a week rather than pressing on daily. “no more mornings” ends them outright, any time.
- It never counts what you’re carrying. Names, not numbers.
Quiet hours
By default she stays quiet overnight. Anything she chooses to send — a nudge, a follow-up — waits for morning. Anything you caused — a reminder you set, work you asked for — comes through when it’s due.
quiet hours 10 to 7
Quiet from 10pm to 7am. Nothing from me in between unless you ask.
- Change them any time in your own words. The line never moves: your schedule outranks her politeness, and her nudges wait for daylight.
When today is too much
Tell her it’s a lot — in whatever words are yours — and she quietly gets lighter: softer replies, fewer touches, nothing lost. Deliberately, she won’t make a thing of it; there is no announcement and no score kept. Everything she was holding is still held, and saying you’re good brings the usual rhythm back.
Everything is too much today
Your account, your data
Billing lives on the dashboard and in the thread, with pause and cancel side by side — leaving is two texts, no tricks. Your data is yours: ask for an export and it arrives; say “delete everything” and, after one confirmation, it all goes.
Cancel my subscription
You’d keep me till September 12. Say ‘yes’ and it’s done.
Reaching a person
The fastest way to reach a person is to text Mags: anything you send lands in front of a real human — this is a small operation, and we read. Billing and account questions are handled from your dashboard at textmags.com/dashboard, and leaving is two texts away (“cancel my subscription”). Message and data rates may apply.
If you are in crisis
Mags is not a medical or crisis service. In the US, call or text 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline — a real person, around the clock.