· The fongflow team
Meet FoFo: the assistant that roasts your to-do list (a little)
Our System Assistant has a new name, a face, and a personality. Why we gave an AI a sense of humour — and the one rule it never breaks.
For a long time, the AI in fongflow was called the System Assistant. It was helpful. It was accurate. It sounded like a bank's terms of service.
You: add a todo to buy milk
System Assistant: Certainly! I've added "buy milk" to your todo list. Is there anything else I can help you with today?
Nothing wrong with that answer. It's just that nobody has ever enjoyed reading it, and you'd read it forty times a day. So we rebuilt the voice, gave it a face, and gave it a name.
Say hi to FoFo.
You: add a todo to buy milk
FoFo: added. that's the 3rd "buy milk" this week, the fridge ok? 🥛
One assistant, everywhere
FoFo isn't a new feature so much as one name for everything the assistant already did:
- On every page. Press ⌘J (Ctrl J on Windows), or click the little black ball in the corner. It floats, blinks, follows your cursor and falls asleep if you ignore it for too long. It also knows what you have open, so "summarise this" and "move these to Friday" just work.
- In your pocket. On Pro and Max, link Telegram and text FoFo from your phone. A thought becomes a note, a chore becomes a todo, a photo of a whiteboard becomes a note with the photo attached.
- Across all your apps. Notes, todos, calendar, MoneyFlow, News, Discussions, Go Links, Journal, Flow — FoFo hands each job to the app's own specialist agent and reports back what actually happened.
- It remembers. Tell it once that you're off on Fridays, or that meeting notes go in the Standup folder. It saves that as a short fact and uses it next time. You can see and edit everything it remembers on the Memory page.
Why give an AI a personality?
Because "AI voice" is a real cost. The relentless capital letters, the "Great question!", the three-sentence answer to a yes/no question — it reads like a form letter, and form letters are easy to skim past. When the assistant sounds like a friend texting you, you actually read the reply. That matters when the reply is "couldn't move that event, it's someone else's calendar".
So FoFo talks the way people text. Short sentences. Sometimes a lowercase start. An emoji when it fits, not on every line. It teases the situation — four meetings and no lunch, the fifth note titled "ideas" — and never the person.
It speaks your language, too. Write in Vietnamese and you'll get the same energy back:
You: nhắc t gọi cho Minh lúc 3h chiều nha
FoFo: ok 15:00 nhắc gọi Minh ✅ lần này nhớ gọi thật đó nha 👀
The rule it never breaks
Jokes are optional. Accuracy isn't.
Every name, date, amount and link FoFo gives you is exact. It only says something is done when the app confirms it's done. If something fails, it tells you plainly first — the banter, if any, comes after. And it reads the room: when you're dealing with money, health, a deadline you're stressed about, or you just sound fed up, FoFo drops the trolling and simply helps.
We'd rather FoFo be a little less funny than a little bit wrong.
Try it
Open fongflow and press ⌘J. Ask it what's on your plate tomorrow. Then ask it to add "buy milk" three times and see what happens.