Working with Cue

Cue is not there to replace your thinking. It is there to enrich it. When you capture Sparks over days and weeks, Cue reads across that history and starts adding what a normal notes app never can: connective tissue. It notices when three separate Sparks are really the same theme, when one unresolved tension keeps showing up in different language, or when a half-formed idea is ready to become an action.

That enrichment powers two parts of MorningKeep. First, it helps Cue answer a focused, typed question using the context you choose. You can ask which themes are recurring or what changed across a set of Sparks. Second, it shapes your Morning Brief. Cue is the layer that turns a pile of Sparks into a brief with perspective, not just a summary.

The important mental model is simple: Cue gets better when it has recurring, honest input. It learns from the texture of your thinking, not just from polished conclusions.

Give Cue raw material with signal. Capture consistently, even when the Spark feels unfinished. A short Spark that says, "I keep circling this launch because I do not trust the positioning yet" is far more valuable than a generic line like "Need to think about launch." Detail gives Cue something to connect; vagueness gives it nothing to work with.

Ask Cue questions that benefit from memory. Good prompts are comparative, reflective, or pattern-based: What themes showed up this week? Which idea keeps returning? What changed between the way I described this problem in January and how I describe it now? Those are the questions where Cue earns its place, because it can look across time instead of reacting to whatever is on your screen in the moment.

Follow up when something resonates. If Cue names a pattern that feels right, keep going. Ask what evidence it sees. Ask what action might break the loop. The value is rarely in the first answer alone. It is in the clarity that becomes possible because the context is already there.

Voice capture lets you create a Spark without stopping to type. Ask Cue is currently a focused, typed experience; it is not marketed as a live, two-way voice conversation.

Morning Brief audio uses Apple's built-in speech capabilities where available. Enhanced conversational voice remains behind certification and is not part of the public launch promise.

Cue only knows what you capture and what you allow MorningKeep to process. That sounds obvious, but it matters. If a Spark should stay entirely local, keep it as a personal record and do not send it through Cue features. If you change your mind later, you can edit or remove the Spark so it no longer contributes to future context.

MorningKeep also gives you consent control over AI use. When those controls are off, Cue does not keep building context from new captures. You can still use MorningKeep as a place to store and review your own thinking; you are simply choosing a more private, more local mode of use.

The right approach is not to hide from Cue. It is to be deliberate. Give it the parts of your thinking where pattern recognition helps, keep clear ownership of the rest, and use the product in a way that matches your own comfort line.