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Ideas, Hints and Context

Gift Idea — something you may give. It can grow into a fully planned Gift with a source, price, photo, Occasion, status and fulfilment information.

What is the difference?

Gift Idea — something you may give. It can grow into a fully planned Gift with a source, price, photo, Occasion, status and fulfilment information.

Hint — something the Person said, implied or revealed that may be useful later. A Hint is valuable even before you know what gift it suggests.

Context — durable information about the Person: interests, dislikes, preferences, life changes, style or other useful relationship memory.

Quick capture an Idea or Hint

  1. Open the + Create menu.
  2. Choose Quick capture.
  3. Under For, choose the Person.
  4. Choose Gift idea or Hint.
  5. Type or dictate the main thought.
  6. Optionally dictate/add a note.
  7. Optionally add a photo.
  8. Optionally add a date.
  9. Tap Save.

Add or edit an Idea in detail

  1. Open the Person and select the Idea, or open it from Journal.
  2. Open the actions menu.
  3. Choose Edit gift idea.
  4. Add or change the title.
  5. In Link & source, add the product/store URL and source where useful.
  6. Add estimated price and currency where available.
  7. Review recipients and dates/Occasion assignment.
  8. Add notes, tags and a photo if useful.
  9. Save.

Add a photo to an Idea

  1. Edit the Idea.
  2. Find Photo.
  3. Choose Add photo or Change photo.
  4. Take a photo or choose one from the Photo Library.
  5. Save.

Photos are managed journal assets so they can participate in supported sync, backup, app-to-app Gift sharing and Portable Journal Export.

  1. Open the Gift Idea.
  2. Use Visit store when a valid link is present.
  3. The destination opens through the normal Apple browser/web flow.

Use provenance when the Idea came from something the Person previously said.

  1. Open the Gift Idea.
  2. Choose Link a hint.
  3. Select the relevant Hint.
  4. Save the relationship.

The journal can then preserve why the Idea exists rather than reducing it to an unexplained shopping entry.

Turn a Hint into a Gift Idea

  1. Open the Person’s Hints section or find the Hint in Journal.
  2. Open its actions.
  3. Choose Turn into gift idea.
  4. Review/edit the new Idea.
  5. Save.

The provenance between the original Hint and the resulting Idea is preserved unless you deliberately unlink it.

Edit or delete a Hint

  1. Open the Hint.
  2. Choose Edit hint to change its text, link, tags or photo.
  3. Choose Delete only when you intend to remove it.

If a Hint is protected, authentication is required before its private content can be viewed or acted on.