Last updated: May 30, 2026
Ask Focal Point is the built-in AI assistant. Instead of tapping through screens, you can just ask — "what's due this week?", "summarize my open tasks", "add a task to call mom tomorrow" — and it reads from (and, with your okay, acts on) your own tasks, notes, projects, and trips. It's a Premium feature.
Premium required. Ask Focal Point is part of Premium. On the free tier the assistant is hidden and the upgrade prompt appears in its place; if your Premium lapses, your past conversations are kept and you can still manage them (see Settings & privacy below).
Tap the ✦ Ask Focal Point entry (the sparkle icon) from the main app to open the assistant.
The first time you open a fresh chat you'll see a few starter suggestions — "What's due today?", "Summarize my open tasks", "What's on my schedule this week?", "Show my overdue tasks" — tap one to try it, or just type your own question in the box at the bottom.
Ask about your tasks, notes,
trips, and schedule
Ask Focal Point is scoped to your Focal Point data and schedule. Within that, it can both look things up and make changes:
If you ask for something outside that scope (general trivia, writing an essay, anything unrelated to your data), it will politely say it can only help with your Focal Point tasks, notes, trips, and schedule. That boundary is deliberate — it keeps the assistant focused and your data private.
Answers stream in as they're generated, so you see the reply build word by word rather than waiting for a wall of text. While it works, you'll see what it's doing — small status chips like "Checking your tasks…" or "Adding a task…" — and once it finishes, those become a row of checkmarked steps showing exactly which actions ran.
When the reply mentions a specific task, note, project, or trip, that item shows up as a tappable link — tap it to jump straight to the thing it's talking about.
The assistant can change your data, so a couple of guardrails keep you in control:
Ask Focal Point only sees what you can see. It reads your personal items and any shared project you're a member of — and it respects each project's permission tiers, so it can't read or change anything in a project you don't have access to. It never reaches into other people's private data.
Manage the assistant under Settings → AI Assistant:
Inside a chat, the toolbar has a history button (re-open a past conversation) and a new chat button (start fresh). Conversations are saved to your account and sync across your devices like the rest of your data.
How your data is handled. When you use the assistant, your messages and a snapshot of the relevant data (for example, the titles of the tasks it needs to read) are sent to Google's Gemini API for processing on a paid service tier. Under that tier Google does not use this content to train its models and retains it only briefly to detect abuse. Your conversation history lives on Focal Point's servers and is deleted automatically after the retention period above. See our Privacy Policy for the full disclosure.
The assistant runs on the managed AI quota that's included with Premium — there's no separate AI bill and no API key to bring. If you're curious where your usage goes, the assistant's activity shows up in Settings → AI Cost alongside the app's other AI features. See Premium → AI features and your cost ledger.
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