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Logging by chat

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Ask your AI anything in your log, with photos and links as context. Start with a / command when you want something saved a set way.

Your log chat has one box and one send button. Everything you send goes to your AI — your words, and any photos or links you attach. Photos and links are context for what you asked. Nothing is saved on its own.

On desktop, the sidebar marks your open log or chat with stronger text. Its grey background appears only while you hover over the row.

What happens when you send

You sendWhat happens
A question or a requestYour AI answers or does it
Words plus photosYour AI sees the photos while it answers. They are not saved as entries unless you ask
A linkYour AI can open it if your request needs it
/picture + photosYour AI follows your /picture instructions — for example, saves each photo to Pictures

Ask "why does this chart say 7?" with a screenshot attached, and you get an answer. Ask "save these to Pictures", or use a command, and they get saved.

The "/" commands

A command is a short name for an instruction you wrote once. Type / at the very start of the box and a menu of your commands opens. Pick one, add your words or photos, and send.

You start with three:

  • /picture — log each photo as its own entry in Pictures, titled from what is in it
  • /link — save the link to Internet content
  • /text — save your words as a note in Texts

The command's instructions apply to that one message only. The next message is a normal one again.

A / anywhere else is just a slash — 5/10 km, dates and URLs work as normal.

Make your own — AI → Slash commands

Open AI from the sidebar's rail and pick the Slash commands tab at the top of the page. Each command is a row:

  • the name you type after /
  • the instructions — plain words telling the AI what to do, like "Log this as a workout in my Workouts collection. Put the weight in the Weight field."
  • a checkbox to switch it off without deleting it

Press + New command to add one. Delete a command from its ⋯ menu — an Undo button appears if you change your mind. Edits save as you type. There's also an Edit JSON button if you'd rather write them all out at once.

Your chats sit above the box

On web and desktop, choose a conversation from the chat dropdown beside the agent. Unnamed chats start as Chat 1, Chat 2, and so on. Select a chat to reply there; open chats stay available across days.

  • + after the chat picker starts a new chat.
  • × beside the selected chat closes it without deleting messages or stopping work. It moves to All chats in the agent's left sidebar, where you can reopen it.
  • Hide chat at the far right tucks away the transcript, keeping your draft. Show chat restores it.

Tabs scroll sideways when there are many. The icon buttons show tooltips on hover or keyboard focus. A spinning indicator means working, orange means your input is needed, and blue means completed. Theme settings control these colours.

The attachment control stays on the left of the borderless input. On the right, the microphone is replaced by Send when you type or attach a photo. Text grows the input; longer drafts can be expanded further.

It's the same conversation on the agent's page. Open that agent to find Open in log view and All chats in its left sidebar. See Chats and AI agents.

Next

You can switch to another chat while a reply is running and send there. Progress and Stop belong to the selected chat; other chats keep working in the background.

You can also keep typing in the same chat while the AI is still answering. Your message shows up right away, and the AI answers it as soon as it finishes the current one. Stop ends the current reply and skips any messages still waiting.

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