> ## Documentation Index
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# Bartleby

> A keyboard-first inbox for iMessage on macOS.

iMessage is where plans get made and where the people you care about reach you. It arrives as one
endless list with no way to finish it.

Bartleby reads the Messages history already on your Mac and gives that list inbox tools: archive,
pin, snooze, undo, and a keyboard that reaches all of them. Messages stays the source and the
delivery mechanism. Bartleby owns the organization, and everything it stores stays on your Mac.

## Who it's for

People who treat messaging as a queue to process rather than a stream to watch. If you have used
Superhuman and wanted the same hands-on-keys triage for text messages, that is what this is.

## What it does today

* Keyboard triage. `E` archives, `H` snoozes, `P` pins, `Z` undoes, `C` composes, all unmodified.
  `?` shows the full list.
* Send, reply to a specific message, attach photos and files, and start new conversations.
* Your whole history on first launch, search included, because Bartleby reads the Messages database
  directly.
* Snooze that wakes a conversation at the time you set, not the next time something happens.
* Lists with your own icons, themes, drafts that autosave, and a command palette on `⌘K`.

## Requirements

macOS 14 or newer on Apple silicon, signed into iMessage in Messages.app.

<Card title="Install Bartleby" icon="download" href="/install">
  Open the DMG, grant Full Disk Access, send your first message. Three steps, no Terminal.
</Card>
