Accounts and connections

Your accounts, in your palace.

Gmail and Calendar, WhatsApp, Telegram and iMessage. Each one is a card under Connections → Your data on your palace: what it is for, one Connect button, and the steps on your phone. This page is the same, written out.

What it reads stays in your palace. Anything it sends is a card you say yes to first. Disconnect any time.

Your data

Gmail and Calendar

What it is for
So your palace can see your mail and your day’s plans.
What it reads
Your mail and your calendar, every night, and when a routine needs them. If you let it, your Google Drive too, read only.
What it may do
Save a draft reply after you say yes on a card. It never sends mail.
How you connect

On your palace: Connections → Your data → Gmail and Calendar → Connect.

  1. 1. Tap Continue with Google.
  2. 2. Pick your Google account.
  3. 3. If Google warns it hasn’t verified this app, tap Continue (or Advanced, then Go to…).
  4. 4. If Google shows boxes to tick, tick them all, then Continue.
  5. 5. You come back, and the card says Connected.

Google asks you to sign in again every 7 days while it finishes checking us. A second Google account and Drive are under the card’s Open.

WhatsApp

What it is for
So your palace can read your chats, and answer only when you say yes.
What it reads
The chats you point it at. Your palace joins your WhatsApp as a linked device.
What it may do
Send only after you say yes on a card, with your passkey. It takes instructions only from Message yourself, your own thread in WhatsApp. The link is unofficial, so there is a small risk WhatsApp blocks the number.
How you connect

On your palace: Connections → Your data → WhatsApp → Connect.

  1. 1. Type your WhatsApp number, with the country code.
  2. 2. Tap Get my code.
  3. 3. Open WhatsApp → Settings → Linked devices → Link a device (on Android, Settings is under ⋮).
  4. 4. Tap Link with phone number instead, and type the code.

Didn't work? Open your palace on a laptop, tap Show a QR instead, and scan it with this phone.

Telegram

What it is for
So your palace can read your Telegram chats, and answer only when you say yes.
What it reads
Your Telegram chats.
What it may do
Send only when you say yes. Write to your palace from your Saved Messages, starting with its name.
How you connect

On your palace: Connections → Your data → Telegram → Connect.

  1. 1. Type your Telegram number, with the country code, and tap Send me a code.
  2. 2. Type the code Telegram sends you. It usually arrives in the Telegram app itself, not as a text.
  3. 3. If your account has a password, type it.

Or, on a laptop, tap Or link a desktop device with a QR code instead, then on your phone open Telegram → Settings → Devices → Link Desktop Device and point it at the code.

iMessage

What it is for
So your palace can read your texts, and answer only when you say yes. This one needs your Mac.
What it reads
Your recent iMessages and texts, with your contacts’ names, passed along by a small helper on your Mac.
What it may do
Send only after you say yes on a card, with your passkey. Your Mac has to be on for messages to sync and send.
How you connect

Do this on your Mac: open your palace there, Connections → Your data → iMessage → Connect.

  1. 1. Tap Get my install line, then Copy.
  2. 2. Open Terminal (press ⌘ Space, type Terminal), paste, press Return.
  3. 3. When your Mac asks, tap Open System Settings and switch on the one called node.
  4. 4. If it asks to control Messages, tap OK.

macOS 13.5 or later.

Your assistants.

Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Muse, and any app with a key. Each one is a card under Connections → Your assistants, with one Connect button and every step. The written walk is on the Connect page.

Connect an assistant →