With Siri AI, Apple Are Falling Further Behind
Field notes from a weekend spent wiring Siri AI into Pilcrow with iOS 27’s App Intents — and why it’s coming back out of the app.
Author: tim
What’s the Weather?
Field notes from Pilcrow: how a small script keeps a snippet current, and how to build your own. Ask ten people how they check the weather and you will get ten different…
Pocket and Pilcrow: Setting Up the Meeting Summary Webhook
Pilcrow can turn a finished Pocket recording straight into a note: the summary, the description, and a link back to the recording, dropped into whichever pile you choose. Here’s how to wire the two together.
Feelin’ blue?
Pilcrow does not make you stare at the same colour scheme forever. Under Settings, on the Display tab, there is a full set of themes to choose between, and it seemed worth…
Any Color You Want, you got it.
(Apologies to all Wilburys, travelling or stationary) Pilcrow comes with a solid set of named colors for tags: reds, greens, blues, and all the other usual suspects. Most of the time, one…
Claude and Pilcrow: Setting Up the MCP Server
Pilcrow has an MCP server of its own, which means Claude can read and write your snippets and piles directly, in whatever conversation you’re already having. No separate app to open, no…
Light-Up Dates: Making a Snippet Impossible to Miss
Some snippets matter more than others, at least for a while. A note you need to act on today, a list you check every Monday, a reminder that only matters on one…
Shared Piles: Working on the Same Notes with Someone Else
Most of what goes into Pilcrow is personal, but not all of it. A packing list for a trip, a shared shopping list, a project you’re running with someone else — some…
Hidden Piles: Tidying Up Without Deleting Anything
Every Pilcrow account ends up with piles you don’t need to see every day. Maybe it’s a trip that already happened, a project that wrapped up, or a pile you made just…
Move to Pile vs Send to Pile: What’s the Difference in Pilcrow?
If you have spent any time organising snippets into piles, you will have noticed that Pilcrow gives you two different options for getting a snippet from one place to another: Send to…