Quick actions are buttons for the tasks you ask the assistant for most, so you don’t have to write the message yourself. They show when you have a topic or a source open: as large buttons in a new chat, and as a row of buttons above the box where you write in a chat that has started, while the assistant isn’t answering.
On a topic
- Generate cards opens the panel for making cards for the topic, the same as Generate on its Cards tab. See Making cards with the assistant.
- Find gaps asks the assistant right away what the topic’s cards leave out.
- Tidy up asks the assistant right away to look through the topic’s cards for what makes them harder to study, such as cards that repeat each other or are unclear. It says what it suggests, and changes nothing until you agree (see What it can change).
- Explain puts “/Explain” at the start of your message. Write what you’d like explained, and send it.
Each of the last three uses the built-in skill of the same name (see Skills). If you switch that skill off, its button goes away. Generate cards and Tidy up show only on your own topics, as they change them. On topics of others, you see Find gaps and Explain.
On a source
Next to a source, on the AI tab (see Read a source):
- Cards from this page makes cards for the source’s topic from the page you’re on. It shows on sources with pages, such as a PDF.
- Cards from this source makes cards for the source’s topic from all of it.
- Explain this page explains the page you’re on, with the Explain skill. It shows on sources with pages, while that skill is on.
Each one asks the assistant right away, with the page or the source attached. The cards are made with the choices you last used for Generate on that topic on this device (see Making cards with the assistant).
On a selection
When you select cards or topics, the bar at the bottom of the screen has Ask AI. It opens the assistant on a new chat, and what you selected goes with your message:
- Ask about these cards… or Ask about these topics… lets you write what you’d like to know.
- Improve asks the assistant right away to make the cards clear and easy to remember.
- Move to… starts a message for you to finish with where they should go.
- Split into subtopic asks the assistant right away to put the cards into a new subtopic.
Improve and Split into subtopic are for cards only. The assistant asks you before some changes, as you chose in your settings, and Undo puts back what it changed (see What it can change).
A quick action goes with what’s on your screen and what you attached, like any message you send.