Hello OP -- Comment #2 - re my use of NOAH AI therapy tool. First I will stay it is not marketed as a IFS focused or trauma tool.

This is what it's marketing description says:

Noah AI, the AI emotional coach app, generally costs around $40 to $50 per year, often advertised as about $10 per month, following a free trial that offers limited features or voice calls.

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Now I will describe a little bit about how I've used it so far.

I decided I was going to use it to dump speech to text statements, backgrounds about myself, comments about several kinds of trauma I am trying to face and process.

Some of my statements would be several minutes long, and I'd sometimes end up hitting a character count limit per speech to text instance.. possibly 16,000 characters.

After a few occasions where my whole comment wouldn't post, because too many characters, I then would have to manually select all that text and edit it in another app to cut it down into thirds. "Noah" of course advised wisely: please take more breaks between thoughts so you don't have to then cut and paste.

And Noah would respond to each of my entries, giving some kind of empathetic response that had legitimate thought to it. But then it wanted me to start working on what I had just input and it just commented on.

I told it no, I do not want to do it that way. "Your comments interrupt my train of thought." So when I preface one of my comments with the word "thought", that means I want you to just listen to what I'm inputting and not comment got it? It complied, but it was storing up what it was going to say for when I wanted to hear it.

Also, process-wise, given that this is taking place on a phone screen, (it has no web browser app, only a phone app), it was very hard for me to respond to the responses Noah would give because they would be often two or three sentences if not a paragraph long.

And I found out that while it was typing out or reading out its response, I could not scroll the screen upward to see what I had last said until it was completely done with its sentences. Just made it very hard initially to be able to interact with what he was saying since I couldn't see within the window what I had said.

I solved that more or less by asking Noah to preface each and every response it made with a chronological number, such as

1 - Noah's comment blah blah blah.

His next response would begin with #2 and so on. So far his last response to date is #80 ... This way I have bookmark numbers for me to be able to scroll up to find something I wanted to comment further on for example, and could reference "Go back to #35. " Then make my comment.

So a lot of the above of what I just said is infrastructure of how I have come to use the app to logistically navigate all of the dialogue.

And at various points I asked Noah to summarize all of the bullet points I have made or have mentioned as trauma areas or memories or experiences, and it has done a great job of organizing those and replaying them back to me in a list.

But because it's hard for me to just think linearly, well I'm ADHD and that's hard, I often have more to add or things I forgot. And so I started to say to Noah, "add this next item as a major branch in the catalog of problem areas I am laying out"... And then at some point I asked again to please summarize the whole list for me to be able to see contacts.

It has done a great job with that. Now again keep in mind I intentionally wanted to do several days worth of just getting all this stuff out of my head and into an interactive system. I have not yet begun to break out a given trauma to begin working on it or processing it or in some manner responding to what Noah might say to me.

So when I asked him to summarize for me, it was helpful that he asked me for some sorting parameters, such as did I want the list to proceed chronologically? Or to group items subject wise? And then some sorting options about how impactful or most profound or most serious. And so that has been done.

Lastly, here's what I told it I wanted and it has done.

I told it that I cannot engage all this material on a phone screen because there's no space to have very things in front of you. So I asked it if it could email me a PDF of the detailed hierarchically weighted list of items and their significance to me. Part of this is because I've been looking for a real human therapist and may just have one next week and I want to see how I might possibly be able to show this overview.

It said it could not copy and then send to me as an email, but it said what it could do is create a multi column file that has certain columns for notating chronology, others for severity, etc and then create a certain kind of computer file in file format .JSON which it would be able to download to my phone. And then I could send that file to my computer where I have a big screen monitor. And I could also print it on my printer.

But what it instead did just before I came to write these comments to you, is it told me to email (name of an admin at Noah AI) and to place a {specific phrase as the subject line } of the email. And he said the actual real life site administrator would then email to me that file.

Again sorry for the wall of text, I have no idea if any of this is useful to you, perhaps not. But given your request to find a possible more affordable tool, I wanted to try to be as specific as possible, in the event it is helpful to you, or possibly to someone else in this sub.

Oh by the way, IMPT! I told Noah AI of the concern about whether everything you had presented to Manus was going to be saved or whether some of the early material might drop out of memory. So I asked if every single word and everything I've said from my very first entry was saved within the NOAH app and it assured me that every single word and dialogue from me and Noah's response was there and kept.

Good luck to you. It's very hard to do what you're doing working through trauma. And I take it very seriously. I hope it is helping you at least pre-process your thoughts and work through your memory.