Chat

Chatting with Steve

Chat is a great way to find specific information on long web pages or to get quick answers on general topics. You can chat with an AI directly or one or more tabs.

• Press the lightning bolt tab to open the sidepanel and access Chat.
• Use the selector at the bottom of the sidepanel to choose what you want to chat with. Your choices are:

• Chat with this Tab: Steve will use the current tab to try to answer your questions
• Chat with this Tab Group: Steve will use all the tabs in the current tab group to try to answer your questions. This is really useful if you're trying to do research or comparisons across a number of different web pages, PDFs, YouTube videos, etc.
• Chat with All Tabs in Window: Steve will use all the tabs in the current window to try to answer your questions. This is really useful if you're trying to do research or comparisons across a number of different web pages, PDFs, YouTube videos, etc.
• Chat with Steve (No Tabs): Steve will ignore the current page so it will be just like asking your question in ChatGPT or Gemini. This is really useful when you want an answer unrelated to the current page.

• Whenever the Chat selector is changed, it will be saved and the Chat history will be cleared.
• To clear the Chat history, press the trash can icon in the upper right. This can be helpful if Steve seems confused.
• To copy a response, mouse over it and then press the copy icon.
• To have a response read out loud, mouse over it and press the speaker icon.
• To save one of your chat requests as a new Agent, mouse over it and press the save icon. This will immediately create a new Agent and corresponding button, which you can then edit.

Agents in Chat

• To use an Agent on the current page, press the lightning bolt icon in the chat field. You can then use the dropdown to pick an Agent or start typing in the name of one and then select it.
• If there is selected text on the current page, your Agent will use that. Otherwise it will use the whole page.
• Agents can run on multiple tabs using the selector at the bottom of the sidepanel. Its important to note that the Agent isn't run once on each tab, instead one big "virtual tab" is created from all the tabs in either the group or the window, and the Agent is run once on that.
• System Variables that have data about a specific tab (_html, _imageUrls, _links, _title, _url) will only have the data for the current tab.
• To get back to normal chat press the ESCAPE key or just hit BACKSPACE several times.
• NOTE: A shortcut to open the Agent selector is to type either a SPACE or @ in the chat input.

What can you Chat with?

• You can Chat with a Google Sheet - either the whole sheet or a selection.
• You can Chat with a Microsoft Excel Sheet - either the whole sheet or a selection.
• You can Chat with a Google Doc - either the whole document or a selection. video
• You can Chat with a Google Slide deck - either the whole deck or a selection. video
• You can Chat with a PDF - either the whole document or a selection. video
• You can Chat with a selection in Microsoft Word Online, but not a whole document
• You can Chat with a selection in Microsoft PowerPoint Online, but not a whole document
• You can Chat with a downloaded file, see File Chat

Pro-Tips

• You can type clear or /clear to clear the chat history
• You can type help or /help to get a quick help message
• You can use the up and down arrows in the message field to cycle between the last 10 messages that you have typed into Chat
• If Ask Steve has been updated, any pages that were loaded before the update will be invisible to Steve. To make them visible, just reload the page.