A skill is a set of instructions the assistant follows for one kind of task, such as making cards for vocabulary. Each skill says what it’s for. When your message fits what a skill is for, the assistant uses it on its own, and the list of what it looked at says “Used a skill”.
You find your skills in Settings, on the Skills tab. Open Settings from the account menu or from the search.
Built-in skills
Five skills come with Memorics:
- Vocabulary is for cards on the words of a language, such as from a word list or a lesson.
- Questions is for cards on material such as slides, notes or a chapter.
- Find gaps looks for what your cards leave out.
- Tidy up finds what makes your cards and topics harder to study, such as cards that repeat each other.
- Explain explains something you don’t understand.
Click a skill to read its instructions. You can’t change a built-in skill, but you can switch it off with its switch, and the assistant won’t use it until you switch it on again. Switching off Find gaps, Tidy up or Explain also hides its button among the Quick actions. To change how one works, use Duplicate: it makes a copy of your own that you can change.
Your own skills
New skill adds a skill of your own. Give it a Title, and choose its Kind: Makes cards for a way of writing cards, or Does a task for anything else. You choose the kind once, when you add the skill. A skill that makes cards shows under More when you choose Generate (see Making cards with the assistant). Use when says when the assistant should use it, such as “When I ask for cards on a chapter of my history book”. The assistant reads this with every message, so keep it short. The Instructions say what to do, in your own words, up to 8,000 characters. Add skill saves it.
Open a skill of yours to change it, then Save changes. Its menu (the … button) has Duplicate, and Delete, which deletes it for good after you confirm. On Free you can have 2 skills of your own, and on Plus 20. Built-in skills don’t count, also when you switch them off. Once you have as many as your plan allows, New skill tells you so instead of opening a new skill (see Free and Plus).
Picking a skill
To use a skill for a message yourself, type / at the start of the message or after a space. A list above the box shows the skills you have switched on. Type to narrow it down, and use the arrow keys and Enter, or click one, to pick it. It goes into your message, marked in color, such as “/Vocabulary”, and the assistant follows it for that message.
Trying a skill
Try it on a skill’s page opens the assistant on a new chat, with the skill already picked in the message. Finish the message with what to use it on, and send it. Try it works once the skill is switched on and your changes are saved.