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Your first request

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Open a page and put the cursor where you want something written.

  1. Ask. Press Mod+. (⌘. on a Mac, Ctrl+. elsewhere). With nothing selected, this asks the agent to write something at the cursor. With text selected, it opens a box where you say what to do with it (“make it shorter”). With an image selected, you say what to change in the picture.

    Request box
    The request box under selected text, with the instruction typed inThe request box under selected text, with the instruction typed in

  2. Wait. A small pill in the margin shows how the request is doing: a clock while it’s queued, the agent’s icon while an agent is working on it. You can keep writing. The agent works in the background and waits until you stop typing before it reads the page.

    Agent working
    Selected words underlined, with a turning ring beside them: an agent is working on the requestSelected words underlined, with a turning ring beside them: an agent is working on the request

  3. Decide. The result shows up in the page as a coloured diff. Hover over it to see its card:

    Suggested replacement
    The old words struck through in red, the suggested words in green after themThe old words struck through in red, the suggested words in green after them
    Suggestion card
    The suggestion card: the agent's note, with Accept, Reject, Ask again and ChatThe suggestion card: the agent's note, with Accept, Reject, Ask again and Chat
    • Accept (Mod+Alt+Y) puts it in the page.
    • Reject (Mod+Alt+N) leaves the page as it was.
    • Ask again sends it back, with your reason if you give one.
    • Chat (Mod+Alt+C) lets you talk it over with the agent that made it.

Mod+Alt+] and Mod+Alt+[ jump between the suggestions waiting for you. The status bar shows how many there are; click the count to accept or reject them all.

Status bar: suggestions waiting
The status bar's count of suggestions waitingThe status bar's count of suggestions waiting

When you’re happy with the page, Sync to file writes your changes to the original file. See Suggestions for everything a card can do.

For Solipsist 0.1