Creating and Managing Parts

Your parts are at the heart of AllOfYou. This guide explains how to create them, fill them out thoughtfully, and use the Parts Map to see how they relate to each other.

Creating a Part

Go to Parts in the navigation and click Add Part. A form will ask you for the following fields:

Name — give the part a meaningful name that feels right to you. It might be descriptive ("The Critic"), personal ("Little Sam"), or metaphorical ("The Fortress").
Role — choose from a list of common IFS roles including protector, inner critic, inner child, exile, manager, firefighter, caretaker, pleaser, achiever, and wise self — or leave it unlabelled, or mark it as something else. If you're not sure, pick your best guess — you can always update it later.
Shows up when — the situations, feelings, or circumstances that bring this part forward. This is what the AI uses to recognise the part during sessions.
Triggers — what situations, words, or feelings tend to activate this part? Being specific here helps the AI facilitator recognise when a part is present during sessions.
Needs — what does this part need in order to feel safe or at ease? For example: reassurance, space, acknowledgement, control.
Description — what this part carries: its history, weight, and shape.
Voice — the text-to-speech voice used when the AI speaks as this part during a session. Choose from alloy, echo, fable, nova, onyx, or shimmer — or leave on default and the app uses alloy. Your Self always speaks in nova.

Each part's visual appearance — its watercolour figure and hue — is set automatically from its role, so choosing the right role is what gives the part its look.

Editing Parts

You can return to any part and update its details at any time. Parts often reveal more about themselves through sessions and check-ins — editing them as you learn more deepens the app's ability to support you.

Part Profile

Clicking any part from the Parts list takes you to its Part Profile page (/parts/[id]). This is the full dossier for that part, showing everything you have recorded about it:

Name and role subtitle — e.g. "a protector · of you" or "a manager · of you"
shows up when — the situations in which this part tends to appear
what stirs them — the triggers that activate this part
what they need — what helps this part feel safe or at ease
what they carry — the deeper description of what this part holds
what they say — this part's own words, shown as a quote (its voice)
close to — relationships between this part and others that you have defined. Each relationship is expressed as a sentence rather than a label. See Adding and removing ties below.
last time you sat — when you most recently worked with this part, with a link back to that session

On a phone the Part Profile replaces the cast; on wider screens (from about 900px, such as a tablet or desktop) the cast stays on the left and the dossier opens beside it on the right, so you can keep the rest of your parts in view while you read.

From the Part Profile you can also start a session focused on this part directly, using the sit with [part name] button. This takes you to the sit-down screen; tap begin to open a Free Dialogue session focused on this part.

Adding and removing ties

The close to section on each Part Profile is interactive — you can add and remove ties that describe how two parts relate to each other.

Adding a tie Tap add a tie in the close to section. A small form appears with two fields:

Who the tie is with — choose another part from your cast.
The relationship — choose from five sentences that describe the connection from this part's point of view:
- [this part] protects [other] — drawn as a solid line on the map
- [other] protects [this part] — also a solid line
- [this part] stirs [other] up — drawn as a dashed line
- [other] stirs [this part] up — also a dashed line
- [this part] steadies [other] — drawn as a dotted line

Tap save to create the tie.

Removing a tie Tap the remove button next to any existing tie in the close to section. The tie is deleted immediately.

On the Parts Map Each relationship type draws a distinct stroke between the two parts. Solid lines indicate a protective relationship, dashed lines a triggering one, and dotted lines a steadying one — so the map gives you a quick visual sense of how your parts relate without reading every label.

Filtering Your Cast

Four filter chips sit below the clearing — all, protectors, exiles, and self-like — letting you narrow the view to an IFS role family. A map view chip opens the Parts Map directly from here.

The Parts Map

The Parts Map at /parts/map displays all your parts as a visual relationship map. You can see at a glance how your parts cluster, which ones are connected, and how they interact with each other. It is a useful tool for stepping back and seeing your inner system as a whole.