Writing Assistant

Writing Assistant lets you chat with AI to help create, improve, rewrite your text and ideas. Think of it like your little helper to get things done!

Writing Assistant is only available to Pro License users.

The Basics

• Writing Assistant requires atleast one AI provider or Ollama to be setup before it can be used.
• Cmd/Ctrl + J to open the Writing Assistant Sidebar.
• By default the current note is added as context to the chat, but you can change it via the context selector (or press @ to open the selector)
• You can add a small part of text in the current note as context as well, by selecting it and pressing Cmd/Ctrl + J or pressing the Add to chat button in the Bubble Menu.
• A set of / commands are made available for quick prompts on the selected context.
• Each chat message is stored locally and can be viewed via the History button to revisit any past chats.
• Each message in a chat can have different contexts and models.

Using the Assistant

• Once you’ve received a response on your query, you are presented with 2 options:
  • Copying the response for manual pasting.
  • Inserting the response to where the cursor currently is.
• A third option is made available if you had selected text as context for the query:
  • Accepting the response, replaces the selected text with the response received from the AI.
• Any queries asked in the same chat message, take previous queries and responses into consideration.

Slash Commands

• You can customise Slash commands in Settings → AI Assistant → Slash Commands . These are immediately available when pressing / in writing assistant.
  • These are stored in a .json file under .octarine/ai/slash-commands.json file in your workspace.