Your first chat with a document

You need an answer model: a local model or a provider with your API key. Check Settings ▸ Models ▸ Answer model.

1. Open a document

• Choose File ▸ Open… (⌘O), or
• Choose File ▸ New Chat… (⌘N), pick documents or click Choose Files…, then Start Chat, or
• Drag files onto the chat list or the PDF Pals icon in the Dock.

Dragging files onto Documents adds them without starting a chat. See supported files.

2. Ask a question

A new document is indexed first; you can type while it works. Click a suggested question, or type in Ask a question and press Return.

3. Check the source

Click a numbered citation to open the page with the passage highlighted. Chat ▸ Next Citation (⌥⌘↓) and Previous Citation (⌥⌘↑) step through them. See chats and citations.

Ask about more than one document

• In Documents, select several, right-click and choose Start New Chat with N Documents.
• In a chat, choose Chat ▸ Add Documents….

A chat searches only its own documents.

Shortcuts

• Stop the answer: ⌘.
• Regenerate: ⌘R
• Edit your last question: ⌘E
• Copy the last answer: ⇧⌘C
• Chat settings: ⌘;
• Go to page: ⌥⌘G

See all of them, and change them, in keyboard shortcuts.