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Usage

Sessions & history

Five chats (1–5), each with its own history, draft, model, pins and YOLO setting. Tabs auto-title from your first message. Histories survive restarts. The ⋯ menu archives a session, opens history (reload any past chat), exports a chat to a note, or regenerates the last reply with a chosen model.

Context — what the model sees

  • Ref note — feeds the currently open note into the conversation.
  • Pin — keeps chosen notes in context for the whole session (📌 chips).
  • @ note / Selection / Attach — add one-off context. You can also drag-drop text files in.
  • The bottom bar shows ctx ~Xk: the estimated tokens in your next message (system + memory + ref + pins + history). Click it for a breakdown. If it's heavy, trim the memory file, untick Ref note, unpin notes, or clear/archive the session.

Searching the vault

Two ways, both ranked (title, heading and tag matches count for more than body text; notes matching all your words and exact phrases rank highest):

  • Search box — the 🔍 button in the chat toolbar, or the Search vault (ranked) command (give it a hotkey for an Omnisearch-style popup). Instant results, no model call, no token cost. Arrow keys to move, Enter or click to open.
  • In chat — just ask ("find my notes about X", or /search). Slower and uses a few tokens, but the model can run several synonym searches and reason over the results — better for conceptual questions.

Slash commands

Type / at the start of a line for a quick menu (/summarise, /search, /rewrite, …). You can also build a saved prompt library and insert prompts from it.

Replies

Clickable wikilinks, Copy / Insert / New note / Retry, code blocks with Copy buttons, long replies collapse. Any note/file the assistant creates or changes is listed with a clickable link under the reply. Replies that ask you to confirm or decide get a highlighted left border. Per-reply and lifetime cost are shown, and a ⏱ timer shows think time.

Inline edit (no chat round-trip)

Select text in any note, run Edit selection with Real Chat (command palette / hotkey), say how to change it, and it rewrites in place.

YOLO mode

The header badge toggles YOLO for the current session (overrides the global default in Settings). When ON, all file changes apply with no confirmation — Obsidian's file history/trash is still your safety net. "Safe" shows when it's off.

Keys & voice

Enter sends, Shift+Enter newline, Esc stops. For voice, click the input and press Win+H (Windows dictation).

Jump to latest

In a long chat, a round button appears at the bottom-right when you scroll up — tap it to jump back to the newest message (works on mobile). While you're scrolled up reading, streaming replies no longer yank you to the bottom.

Reasoning models

With a reasoning model (DeepSeek reasoner, or an OpenRouter thinking model), the chain-of-thought streams into a collapsible "Thinking" block above the answer, then collapses once the reply lands. It's display-only and is not sent back to the model on later turns.

Long tasks

There's a 50-step tool-loop cap per turn. If a task hits it, the reply pauses with a Continue button — press it to let the model carry on from where it stopped, rather than starting over.

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