A one-line post on r/MetaAI this weekend said the new Muse agent had helped the author's executive function so much that it takes some of the mental load off, and asked whether anyone else used it that way. The answer, scattered across other threads, is yes, and the descriptions are consistent enough to be worth collecting.
A notepad that follows through
A user with ADD called Muse a game changer for staying organised and on top of things. Their explanation of why is the best line in the thread: they can describe their whole schedule in plain language and it handles the times and the reminders, so they use it like a notepad, except the notepad actually follows through.
That is the difference from a to-do app. The capture is the same. What changes is that the thing you captured turns into calendar entries, reminders and, for some jobs, the task itself getting done.
A manager for the creative stuff
Another user said Muse acts like a little manager that keeps them on track with a book they are writing, and that they are already four chapters in. They said it motivates them in a way no other tool or person had for their creative work. Someone in a different thread has it proofread each chapter as it lands.
The memory is the point
One reply compared it to Gemini: Muse is aware of everything across all of your chats, while other assistants isolate conversations and forget the start of long ones. They also noted it could tell them exactly when they had sent a particular message. For anyone whose problem is holding context, an assistant that keeps it for you is doing the heavy part.
The trade-off is privacy, and people in the same threads were uneasy about it. Our note on connecting Gmail covers what one user found and how others limit what the agent can see.
One bug to know about
Muse can watch your phone's notifications and act on them, which one Android user called top notch. They also found a trade: with the persistent notification enabled so Muse can monitor, its own push notifications stopped arriving on their phone. Turning the monitoring off fixed the pushes. They filed a bug report and were asking whether others see the same.
Try it yourself
Start small. Give Muse your week in the words you would use with a friend, ask it to put it on the calendar with reminders, and see whether it holds up for seven days. The productivity workflows below are written for exactly that kind of first run.