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How AI Extraction Works

Last updated: July 2025

Nabbo uses advanced AI to turn unstructured messages into clear, actionable items for your family. Here’s how it works.

What Nabbo Extracts

When you share a message, email, or voice note, Nabbo’s AI identifies:

• Events — activities with a date, time, and often a location (school trips, football practice, birthday parties)
• Tasks — things that need doing (sign a form, pack a lunch, buy supplies)
• Deadlines — dates by which something must happen (payment due, RSVP by, registration closes)

For each item, Nabbo extracts:

• Who — which family member is involved
• What — the activity or action
• When — date and time (or deadline)
• Where — location if mentioned
• Notes — extra details like what to bring, costs, links, or contact info

Confidence Levels

Nabbo assigns a confidence level to each extraction:

• High confidence — the information was clearly stated (explicit date, named person)
• Medium confidence — the AI inferred details from context (e.g. “next Friday” resolved to a specific date)
• Low confidence — the AI is less certain and flags the item for careful review

Items with high confidence may be auto-approved (if you’ve enabled that in Settings). Lower confidence items always appear in your review queue.

How to Review Items

After extraction, items appear in your Review tab:

1. Approve — tap to confirm the item as-is and add it to your plan
2. Edit — tap to adjust any detail (date, time, person, notes) before approving
3. Dismiss — swipe to remove items that aren’t relevant

Change Detection

If you share a message that updates an existing item (e.g. “Football moved to 5pm” when you already have football at 4pm), Nabbo detects this and shows you what changed rather than creating a duplicate.

Multimodal Input

Nabbo doesn’t just read text. It can also process:

• Images — screenshots of messages, photos of flyers or notices
• PDFs — permission slips, school letters, booking confirmations
• Voice — natural speech converted to structured items

Tips for Best Results

• Forward the full email rather than copying fragments
• Include context when sharing screenshots (Nabbo reads surrounding text too)
• Speak in natural sentences when using voice input
• The more you use Nabbo, the better it learns your household’s patterns