Over the past two years, everyone has probably used quite a few AI tools.
When I used other AI assistants for work in the past, I often had to repeatedly explain: who I am, what I am doing, and what result I need this time.
When pushing forward several projects at once, materials are scattered across chats, documents, emails, and calendars. Every time before asking AI for help, I first have to act as a materials organizer myself.
Recently I was recommended a very special AI assistant called Today。
From the day it was installed, Today really took every one of my matters to heart。
When facing a specific task, I do not even need to explain extra background. For example, when I ask it to help me unsubscribe from promotional emails, with just a casual sentence, it handles it neatly:
Even more outrageous is that, even if I say nothing at all, it will proactively push relevant industry news based on what it knows about me:
Isn't this kind of user experience very special?
Today's core capability is to continuously understand us based on the information provided, proactively think one step further for us, and help execute. Just like a personal assistant。
A few days ago, the domestic version of Today was also officially launched. New users can directly receive 100 million tokens plus 1 month of Pro benefits.
Without further ado, let's experience it immersively together.
01. The Personal AI That Understands Me
With previous Agent tools, no matter how smart they were, the premise was still that we first had to think clearly about what to do, and then instruct them to do it.
But after we authorize Today to connect to the local environment and applications, it has my work context, knows what we are doing, and will proactively help share the load.
In settings, turn on connected apps. We can authorize email, Feishu, TickTick, local folders, calendars, and more with one click。
No complex configuration is needed. It truly achieves being usable upon authorization。
After I opened the relevant local materials, Today used theseauthorized contentsto organize an initial memory.
Many times I have not yet figured out what to do first today, and Today has already figured it out for me in advance.
On the first day back to work after the Mid-Autumn Festival short holiday, as soon as I opened my computer, Today proactively pushed a customized morning briefing:
In the files I had authorized, Today gained insight that I usually do AI comic dramas and video creation, so it proactively grabbed two updates strongly related to my recent projects.
Combined with the time background of the end of the long holiday, it listed the to-dos most worth paying attention to that day. More importantly, Today directly generated a button below the update card, and by clicking the button we can let Today continue to move things forward along the context.
Email Management
When work gets busy, many minor details simply cannot be attended to. Now, with just a casual instruction from me, Today will proactively follow up over the long term.
For example, when facing tool renewals that are easy to forget:
Help me check the AI tool subscription, renewal, and trial expiration emails received in Gmail over the past 30 days, and find the matters that need to be handled in the next 7 days.
Sort by urgency, and list the tool name, expiration or renewal time, amount, whether it auto-renews, and the handling entry provided in the email.
For each item, note the email subject, sender, and time received; if supported, attach the original email link. For information not clearly stated in the email, please mark it as "to be confirmed." Organize first, and do not cancel subscriptions or modify the account for me.
Today quickly screened my Gmail messages and precisely extracted all the key information, rigorously distinguishing urgent to-dos, follow-ups, and reference information.
Even more effortless, Today willautomatically sync these items into the briefing to generate to-dos, reminding me to handle them now or to remind me again in the morning.
Faced with the daily mountain of advertising emails, just say offhand:
Help me unsubscribe from promotional emails.
Today will precisely filter out subscription-type marketing emails, and after we authorize again, help us complete the unsubscription and sync the progress.
Add follow
Even more surprising,the more we use it, the more in tune Today is with us。
In daily interactions, a casual sentence we say can immediately become a memory. For example, I type:
Follow OPC updates.
From that day on, Today will automatically track and continuously update the latest information about OPC in subsequent briefings.
Personalized learning
No matter how powerful general-purpose models on the market are, they are made for the masses, and we still have to spend a lot of effort aligning granularity with them; whereas Today, through long-term collaboration, continuously adapts and learns our preferences and habits, updating its understanding of us.
I want to learn English so I can learn first-hand overseas technical tutorials and videos without barriers, but studying on my own lacks a clear plan, and it is easy to work in fits and starts.
You can let Today remember our learning goals and progress, and proactively guide our learning on time every day.
First let Today understand our goals and test our English level.
Let Today create a study plan and help us plan the daily learning content.
When the time comes, Today will push the content to be learned each day.
I do not need to deliberately remind it each time where I have learned up to; Today will continuously update my learning progress and sync it to memory.
Apple Calendar management
We can authorize Today to connect to the local Apple Calendar. Time management can be arranged with one sentence:
Something came up tomorrow afternoon, I need to go out to visit a client, push all afternoon work content later.
No need for us to manually open the calendar to modify; Today will reorganize the schedule according to our requirements.
Invoke Skill
Usually when letting AI make a proposal, the most painful part is the upfront input. You first have to feed the AI business background, personal profile, and style requirements, otherwise what it spits out is all empty bureaucratic nonsense.
Today can, through our authorization, learn our commonly used work habits and processes from work-related files, and so on.
When I need to plan a new project, I directly throw out one sentence:
Help me analyze the current traffic logic of Hongguo Short Dramas, and how my anime drama should choose topics.
After clicking send, Today will run the task silently in the background, and during this time we can go do other things without delaying the work at hand at all.
Let us look together at the complete report generated by Today:
The content is very detailed. Today generated topic recommendations based on the industry status and my user profile, and throughout the whole process I did not need to manually supplement background information. Who else knows this feeling?
We can also continue to turn this research report into a PPT.
Install this Skill [SKill address], and organize the just-now report "Hongguo Short Drama Traffic Logic and AI Anime Drama Topic Strategy" into a Chinese PPT aimed at AI content creators.
In just a few minutes, Today generated a clearly structured, professionally formatted, ready-to-download PPT.
Today currently supports Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, Android, browser extensionsand more. No matter which device you switch to or how many conversations you start, Today can continue to use the memories already saved in subsequent conversations, so we no longer need to reintroduce ourselves every time we start a project.
02. Some sharing
After testing it for the past few days, Today is indeed quite different from the various AI tools we usually use.
Traditional AI always makes us explain the context clearly first and then waits for us to assign tasks. Today, however, is more like an exclusive assistant who knows what needs to be done. We do not need to repeatedly explain the background; with just a casual word, it can move things forward with an unspoken understanding, giving a reassuring sense that it gets smoother the more you use it.
Today represents a key leap in the form of tools from a chat box for single-turn Q&A to a proactive Personal AI.
Beyond competing on underlying model capabilities, how well it understands personal context and more proactively integrates into specific workflows will also become key to creating a differentiated experience.
AI has begun to proactively understand our work rhythm and take trivial matters off our hands, and the collaborative relationship between people and tools has quietly ushered in a very interesting shift.
Friends who are interested might as well try Today China Edition directly. New users can now directly get 1 month of Pro benefits and 100 million tokens, and personally experience the ease of being understood by AI。