Apple Apps

Agents can work in the apps that come with your Mac: check your schedule, add reminders, look up a phone number, save notes, file mail, and send iMessages. You ask in plain language, and the agent uses the app for you. Each app is a plugin on the Mac Apps tab of Settings → Plugins. Connecting one asks macOS for permission, not for an account. Enconvo reads an app only when an agent needs it, and nothing syncs in the background. What it reads goes to the AI model you chose for that chat.

Connect an app

Open Mac Apps

Open Settings → Plugins and click the Mac Apps tab.

Connect the app

Click the app, then Connect. Read what connecting means, then click Continue.

Allow access

macOS asks whether Enconvo may use the app. Allow it. For some apps, Enconvo opens the app in the background so macOS can ask.

Try it

The app shows Connected on this Mac. Click Try now, or ask an agent something from the examples below.

What agents can do

App	What agents can do	macOS permission
Calendar	Read your calendars and events in any date range, in every account set up in Calendar. Add events, change their time, place, and notes, and delete them.	Calendars
Reminders	Read your lists and the reminders still to do. Add reminders, change their due date and notes, complete them, and delete them.	Reminders
Contacts	Find people by name, phone number, or email address, and read your contacts a page at a time. Agents can’t change your contacts.	Automation, then Contacts
Notes	Search and read notes, with their folders and attachments. Add notes, add to them or rewrite them, move them between folders, and delete them. Locked notes stay locked.	Automation
Mail	Search your mailboxes in every account set up in Mail, and read messages and their attachments. Write drafts, send, reply, forward, and move, flag, or delete messages.	Automation
Messages	Read unread messages and the history of a conversation. Send iMessages now or at a later time.	Automation, plus Full Disk Access to read history
Music	Play songs, albums, artists, and playlists from your library or the Apple Music catalog. Pause, skip, set the volume, shuffle, and repeat, and see what’s playing.	Automation

The Mac Apps tab also has Spotify, which works the same way. It needs the Spotify app on your Mac, signed in to your account.

Agents can change and delete events, reminders, notes, and mail, and send mail, without asking first. Ask for a plan or a draft when you want to review it. Before sending a message in Messages, agents confirm the recipient and the text.

Disconnect an app

Open the app on the Mac Apps tab and click Disconnect. This turns the app off in Enconvo. To remove macOS access as well, turn off Enconvo in System Settings → Privacy & Security, under the permission the table lists for that app.

Examples by app

Mail

Mail works with every account set up in the Mail app, including iCloud, Gmail, Outlook, and Exchange. Agents can also manage mailboxes, turn Mail rules on or off, save attachments, and count unread mail.

"Show me my unread emails"
"Send an email to alice@example.com about the project deadline"
"Archive all emails from notifications@github.com"
"What did Bob say in his last email?"

Reminders

A reminder can have a due date and time, notes, a priority (none, low, medium, or high), a repeat rule, and a location that triggers it when you arrive or leave. A repeat rule is daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly, every one or more periods (such as every 2 weeks), with an optional end date.

"Remind me to call the dentist tomorrow at 2pm"
"Add a reminder for the team standup every weekday at 9am"

"Create a high-priority reminder to submit the report by Friday"

"Set a recurring reminder to review expenses on the first of every month"

"Remind me to buy groceries when I arrive at the store"

Calendar

An event can be all-day, have a location, notes, and a link, carry alarms a set number of minutes before it starts, show you as busy, free, tentative, or unavailable, and repeat daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly, until an end date or for a number of times. When you delete a repeating event, the agent can delete every occurrence. Basic events:

"Schedule a team meeting tomorrow at 3pm for one hour"
"Add a dentist appointment on March 25th from 10am to 11am at 123 Main St"

All-day events:

"Block off next Friday as a personal day"

Recurring events:

"Create a weekly team standup every Monday at 9am"
"Schedule a monthly review on the first of each month"

Alarms:

"Schedule a meeting at 2pm with a 15-minute reminder"
"Add a 1-hour warning alarm to my flight tomorrow"

Several calendars:

"Add this event to my Work calendar"
"Show me events from all calendars for the next week"

Contacts

"What is Alice's phone number?"
"Get Bob's email address"

Messages

Messages sends iMessages to a phone number or email address. The Messages app must be signed in to your Apple Account for iMessage delivery.

"Send a text to Alice saying I'll be 10 minutes late"
"Message Bob 'meeting pushed to 3pm'"

Notes

Agents can also read the note you have selected in Notes, which suits “summarize this” or “translate this” requests.

"Create a note titled 'Trip Checklist' with my packing list"
"Add today's meeting notes to my 'Work' folder"
"Summarize the note I have open"

Maps

Agents open Apple Maps to search for a place, show directions by car, on foot, or by public transit, drop a pin, and create guides. The results appear in Maps, not in the chat. To save a place as a favorite or add it to a guide, the agent opens it and you finish the step in Maps.

"Where is 1 Infinite Loop?"
"Directions from my office to SFO by car"

Shortcuts

Agents don’t run Shortcuts. To run one from Enconvo, add a Run a Shortcut step to a Quick Action in Settings → Quick Actions.

Permissions

Each app uses its own macOS permission, listed in the table above:

Calendar and Reminders use the Calendars and Reminders lists in System Settings → Privacy & Security.
Contacts, Notes, Mail, Messages, and Music use Automation, where macOS asks whether Enconvo may control each app. Contacts also asks for access to your contacts.
Messages keeps your history in a protected file, so reading it needs Full Disk Access for Enconvo.

If you deny a permission prompt, that app won’t work with Enconvo. When macOS blocks a connected app, its row on the Mac Apps tab shows Open Settings, which takes you to the right switch. You can change any of these permissions later in System Settings → Privacy & Security.

Troubleshooting

Problem	What to do
Mail doesn’t work	Make sure the Mail app has at least one email account. Check that Enconvo is on for Mail in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Automation.
Calendar access is denied	In System Settings → Privacy & Security → Calendars, make sure Enconvo is listed and turned on. Restart Enconvo after you allow it.
Reminders don’t appear	Check that Enconvo has access in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Reminders, and that the reminders show in the Reminders app.
Messages can’t read your history	Turn on Full Disk Access for Enconvo in System Settings → Privacy & Security.
A connected app shows Open Settings	macOS is blocking Enconvo. Click Open Settings and turn Enconvo on.

Gmail

Search, read, and send Gmail through your Enconvo account.

IM Channels

Reach an Agent from Telegram or Discord.

Agents

Agents that use your Mac’s apps.

Workflows

Automate tasks in your Mac’s apps.

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What agents can do

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Examples by app

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Reminders

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Contacts

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Notes

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Shortcuts

Permissions

Troubleshooting

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IM Channels

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What agents can do

Disconnect an app

Examples by app

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Reminders

Calendar

Contacts

Messages

Notes

Maps

Shortcuts

Permissions

Troubleshooting

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