Chat and scope

The chat panel sits beside your notes. ⌘⌥B / Ctrl+Alt+B shows and hides it.

It is not a separate product with a copy of your vault. The assistant runs on your machine, in your vault, and can read and write the files you are looking at.

Scope

Every question carries a scope — how much of the vault it may look at.

Scope	What it sees
Note	The note you have open
Folder	That folder and what is under it
Vault	Everything

Scope is a cost and a precision control at once. A question about one meeting does not need to read four thousand files, and an answer drawn from the whole vault is slower and vaguer than one drawn from the right folder.

Where the answer goes

An answer can land in three places:

• In the chat — you read it and move on.
• In the note — written into the file you are looking at.
• As a file — Word, Excel, PDF or Markdown, saved into the vault.

Interrupting

Send another message while an answer is being written and the assistant stops and takes the new one. It does not queue behind an answer that is already going the wrong way. Esc stops the current turn outright.

What it costs

Whatever your subscription costs. Mindex adds nothing and holds no key of its own — see Connect an assistant.