Overview
Notebooks are High IQ’s AI-powered consumption analysis — a complete evolution of what used to be called “Reports.” The idea is simple: every time you buy cannabis, that purchase shouldn’t just sit in a list. It should become something you can learn from, plan with, and revisit. When you generate a notebook, the AI takes your purchase data — the strains, terpenes, quantities, prices, and your personal history — and transforms it into a rich, multi-layered analysis. You get a detailed tabbed breakdown, an immersive full-screen story you can swipe through, and optional media like video summaries, an audio briefing narrated by Professor High, an interactive mindmap, and a shareable order card. It’s your cannabis experience, documented and understood.Why “Notebooks”?
We originally called this feature “Reports” — but reports felt static and one-directional. You’d generate one, read it, and move on. The reality of what the feature became was much richer: a living document with multiple ways to consume it, media attachments, stories you can swipe through, and daily recaps that build over time. Notebooks better captures what this feature actually is — a personal record of your cannabis journey that grows with you. Each notebook is a snapshot of a moment (a purchase, a week, a month) analyzed through multiple lenses: which strains you chose, what terpenes dominated, how to plan your sessions, and what patterns emerge over time.The Journey: From Purchase to Notebook
Here’s how it works in practice:You Buy Cannabis
You visit a dispensary and make a purchase. You add the order to High IQ — by scanning a receipt, importing from email, or entering it manually.
Your Order Sits in Your Stash
The strains from your order appear in your stash with full profiles — effects, terpenes, lineage, and more, all pulled from the High IQ database.
You Generate a Notebook
From the Notebooks tab, you tap + and select the strains you want analyzed. The AI gets to work, streaming each section in real time so you can watch it build.
Your Notebook Comes to Life
What was just a list of strains becomes a 5-tab deep analysis — an overview with key metrics, strain-by-strain breakdowns, terpene profiles and synergies, a personalized consumption plan, and insights comparing this purchase to your history.
You Experience It as a Story
The same analysis is also available as a full-screen Story — a swipeable, visual narrative in 6 acts that walks you through your purchase like a guided experience. Think Instagram Stories, but for your cannabis.
Key Features
Notebooks Home
The Notebooks tab leads with today’s Daily Story and your latest notebook, followed by your full notebook history grouped by month — tap any row to open the full notebook.
5-Tab Detail View
Each notebook has 5 analysis tabs: Overview, Strains, Terpenes, Plan, and Insights — navigated using a native iOS segmented control for seamless platform-native tab switching.
Multiple Notebook Types
Generate notebooks from a specific order, your current stash, weekly or monthly activity, or a custom selection of strains.
Stash Selection
Choose exactly which stash items to include when generating a notebook, so you can focus the analysis on what matters to you.
Real-Time Progress
Watch the generation pipeline in real time with a progress sheet showing each stage: Analyzing, Generating, Finalizing, and Completed.
Pro Feature
AI Notebooks are part of the Pro tier ($12.99/month). Generating a notebook requires an active Pro subscription.
Notebook Types
| Type | Source Data | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Order Notebook | A single dispensary order | Analyzing a specific purchase and its strains |
| Stash Notebook | Selected items from your stash | Deep dive into what you’re currently using |
| Weekly Notebook | Last 7 days of stash activity | Quick check on recent consumption patterns |
| Monthly Notebook | Last 30 days of activity | Comprehensive monthly overview and trends |
| Custom Notebook | Any strains you select | Focused analysis on a specific set of strains |
How to Generate a Notebook
Open Notebooks
Tap the Notebooks tab (sparkles icon) in the bottom navigation bar. You’ll see today’s Daily Story, your latest notebook, and your notebook history grouped by month.
Tap the + Button
Tap the + button in the header. A stash selection modal opens where you can choose which items to include in the analysis.
Select Your Strains
Pick the stash items you want analyzed. You can select individual strains or choose all items from a specific order or time period.
Watch It Generate
A progress sheet appears showing real-time status. The pipeline moves through four stages:
Changed your mind? Tap Cancel on the progress sheet. A confirmation appears so you don’t stop a generation by accident — canceled notebooks stay in your list and can be retried later.
| Stage | What Happens |
|---|---|
| Analyzing | Gathering your stash data, strain profiles, and terpene information |
| Generating | AI is writing each section with streaming text |
| Finalizing | Assembling the final notebook and computing insights |
| Completed | Notebook is ready — the app auto-navigates to the detail view |
Notebook generation typically takes 30 seconds to 2 minutes depending on the number of strains analyzed and current server load.
Notebook Detail View
Each notebook has 5 tabs providing different perspectives on your data:Overview Tab
A high-level summary with an order metadata grid, executive summary narrative, and key metrics — total strains analyzed, grams, amount spent, and average THC percentage.Strains Tab
Detailed analysis of each strain in the notebook with research notes, effect profiles, and expandable cards showing lineage, grow information, and similar strain suggestions.Terpenes Tab
Your combined terpene profile across all strains in the notebook — which terpenes dominate, how they interact (synergy combinations), and what that means for your experience. The top three terpenes each get a dedicated card showing percentage, flavor profile, effects bullets, and prevalence indicator. Tap See all terpenes to expand the full list with horizontal percentage bars for every terpene detected.Plan Tab
AI-generated consumption planning with 3-session or 4-session schedules. Each session recommendation includes suggested strains, optimal timing (morning, afternoon, evening), and expected effects.Insights Tab
Comparative analysis showing how this notebook stacks up against your previous ones. Includes an effects spectrum visualization, cost optimization suggestions, and seasonal pattern analysis. A collapsible Data Sources accordion at the bottom lists every source used for the analysis — domain name, number of strains sourced, and a 1–5 reliability rating — so you can see exactly where the AI’s information came from.Notebook Media
Notebooks can lead with a Video Hero at the top of the detail view — a full-screen generated video summary that plays inline. Below it, the Media Strip gives you one-tap access to the media generated for this notebook:| Button | Description |
|---|---|
| Video | Tap to play the video summary full-screen with native iOS controls (AirPlay, picture-in-picture, scrubbing, fullscreen) |
| Listen | An audio briefing of your notebook, narrated by Professor High. Plays in a mini player so you can keep browsing the notebook while you listen |
| Mindmap | Opens an interactive mindmap viewer — a collapsible tree of your notebook’s strains, terpenes, and insights. Tap branches to expand and collapse them |
| Infographic | Shareable visual summary of key metrics and insights |
| Stories | Opens the swipeable full-screen Stories viewer |
Media is generated in the background after the notebook text is ready and can take a while to appear. The exact set of media types varies — we enable and disable individual types remotely as we refine them, so not every notebook will have every card.
Media Status Badges
Each media card shows its current state so you always know what’s happening:- Generating… — The media is still being created in the background.
- Outdated — You regenerated the notebook after this media was created, so it still describes the previous version. Regenerate to refresh it.
- Failed — Generation didn’t finish. If a media item has been generating for more than about 30 minutes, it’s marked as failed instead of spinning forever, so you know to regenerate rather than wait.
Share Card
Every notebook can produce a Share Card — a branded, portrait (4:5) summary card showing your order date, dispensary, strain lineup with THC levels, and a key insight. Open it from the notebook’s header menu (••• → Share Card), then tap Share to send it as an image through the iOS share sheet — perfect for stories and group chats. If image capture isn’t available on your build, sharing falls back to a text summary with a link to the notebook.Viewing Past Notebooks
All notebooks are saved on the Notebooks tab, grouped by month below your Daily Stories and latest notebook. Each row shows the notebook’s title, date, strain count, and status (generating, completed, or error). Tap a row to open the detail view, then use the Stories card in the media strip to view it as a Story. Older notebooks from before the current analysis format appear as archive entries. Tapping one opens an upgrade sheet that previews what regeneration adds — confirm to rebuild it with the full 5-tab analysis.Pro Subscription
AI Notebooks are a Pro feature. Generating a notebook requires an active Pro subscription ($12.99/month) — see What’s in Pro. Non-subscribers can preview the Notebooks screen with sample content, but generating a new notebook prompts an upgrade.If Something Goes Wrong
Generation is resilient — a hiccup in one section doesn’t throw away the rest:- Some sections failed: The notebook still opens with everything that finished. A banner at the top tells you how many sections failed, with a Retry failed sections button. Retrying regenerates the entire notebook, so you’ll be asked to confirm before completed sections are replaced.
- A section fails while you watch: During generation, each section in the progress tracker shows its own status — failed sections get an inline retry button.
- Nothing usable was generated: You’ll see a full-screen error with a retry option. The error message and the stage where it failed are preserved for troubleshooting.
- You canceled it: Canceled notebooks remain in your list and can be regenerated whenever you’re ready.
Tips
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- Video Reports — AI-generated video presentations of your notebook analysis
- Notebook Stories — The immersive full-screen Stories experience
- Daily Stories — Automatic daily consumption stories
- Stats Dashboard — Detailed analytics on your consumption patterns
- Ask AI — Ask the AI assistant questions about your data