Support

Getting in touch

Email bk2022@gmail.com. It reaches me directly — there is no support desk and no ticket number. I usually reply within a few days.

Useful to include: which iPhone and iOS version you’re on, and the title of the card you were looking at if it’s about a specific one.

How it works

Why do I see the same idea all day?

That’s deliberate. The card of the day is chosen by the date, so it stays put however often you open the app, and the morning notification always matches what you’ll find inside. Tomorrow brings a different one. If you want another right now, tap Shuffle.

Where do the ideas come from?

A personal library — books actually read and actually owned, not a bestseller list. Each card is one idea from one book, in about forty words, with the author credited underneath.

They aren’t summaries, and they aren’t meant to stand in for reading anything. A book gives up four or five cards at most, which is nowhere near a book. The point is to remind you why a book was worth reading, or to make you want one you haven’t.

Can I see the other ideas from the same book?

Yes — tap the book’s name under any card. Every card that book produced appears together, along with a link to find the book itself.

What does “Find this book” do?

Opens that book on Amazon, in your browser or the Amazon app. It goes to your own regional Amazon where we can tell which one that is. We earn no commission — the link is there because a card that makes you want a book should tell you where to get it.

Saving cards

Tap the bookmark at the top right to keep a card. Tap Saved to read what you’ve kept, newest first, and swipe left or right to move through them. Tap Today to come back to the day’s idea.

The daily reminder

Turning it on or off

The app asks permission the first time you open it. To change your mind later, go to Settings → Notifications → Antilibrary on your iPhone and turn Allow Notifications on or off.

Can I change the time?

Yes, from version 1.1. Tap the bell at the top of the screen and pick a time; it saves as you set it, and the reminders reschedule on the spot. It arrives at 9:00 am until you change it. On 1.0 the time is fixed at 9:00 — update the app to change it.

It stopped arriving

Three things to check, in order:

• Permission. Settings → Notifications → Antilibrary → Allow Notifications.
• A Focus mode. Sleep or Do Not Disturb will hold the notification silently.
• Open the app. Reminders are scheduled about two months ahead and topped up each time you open it. If the app has gone unopened for a long stretch, opening it once refills the schedule.

Your highlights

How do I connect my Kindle?

Tap the gear at the top of the screen, then Connect Kindle. You sign in on Amazon’s own page, inside the app. When your notebook appears, the app closes the page and fetches your highlights — a minute or two the first time, a moment every time after.

Your password goes to Amazon and only to Amazon. The app never sees it. Your highlights stay on your phone; nothing about them is sent to us. The privacy policy spells this out.

Where do my highlights show up?

On Today, swipe left from the day’s idea. You’ll get one of your own highlights for the day, with the book, the author, and any note you made. Swipe left again for another — none repeats until you’ve seen them all. Swipe right to come back. Tap the book’s name to see everything you highlighted in it. Bookmark and share work the same as for any card.

Which highlights does it get?

Everything in your Amazon notebook — highlights made on a Kindle device or in the Kindle app, for books bought from Amazon. Highlights in personal documents you sideloaded don’t reach Amazon’s notebook, so they don’t reach the app either.

Some of a book’s highlights are missing

Publishers set a limit on how much of some books can be exported, and Amazon applies it to the notebook. Past the limit, highlights exist on your Kindle but aren’t handed over. Nothing in the app can change that.

It says Amazon signed me out

Amazon sessions expire now and then, or end when you change your password. Your highlights are still in the app; tap the gear, then Sign in again to keep them current.

Adding a highlight from a paper book

Tap the + at the end of the bottom bar, then Scan a page. Photograph the page, tap the lines you marked, check the words, and say where it’s from — a book from your shelf or your Kindle, something you type, or skip it. Paste does the same for a passage you’ve copied from the Kindle app or anywhere else. A highlight with no source shows Add where it’s from on its card, so you can file it later.

Removing it

Tap the gear, then Disconnect. That removes your highlights and the Amazon session from your phone. Deleting the app does the same.

Content and updates

Do I need to update the app to get new books?

No. The library refreshes itself when you open the app, so books added since you installed it turn up on their own. App updates are only for changes to the app itself.

Does it work offline?

Yes, completely. The app carries a full copy of the library and only reaches the network to see whether there’s a newer one. On a plane or with no signal it behaves exactly as usual.

Something in a card is wrong

It happens — a misattributed idea, a wrong year, an author’s name mangled. Email me the card’s title and what’s wrong with it and I’ll fix it at the source. Corrections reach everyone without an app update.

Your data

Your bookmarks and your Kindle highlights stay on your phone and are never sent anywhere. There’s no account, so nothing to close — deleting the app removes everything it kept. The privacy policy has the full account, including the one request the app does make.

Requirements

Antilibrary needs iOS 17 or later. It has no in-app purchases and no subscription.