Read Along

Read Along is a reading pane with an agent beside you. Open a note or a document, read as usual, and highlight anything you want explained. The agent answers from the text on the page, not from what it half-remembers, so the answer fits the passage in front of you.

Find it under More → Build & automate → Read along.

Open something to read

• A note. The left column lists notes in your shared brain, newest first, with a search box. Click one to read it.
• A file. Choose Open a file for a PDF, Word document, slide deck, spreadsheet, e-book, or plain text file. It is converted to text on your computer and not stored anywhere new. Close the page and it is gone.

Very large files are trimmed to a readable length, and the page tells you when that happens.

Ask about a passage

Highlight a sentence or paragraph. A small bar offers two choices:

• Ask about this opens a chat with the passage attached and a question you can edit.
• Explain it asks for a plain-language explanation and why the passage matters.

The passage, title, and source go along with your first message, so the agent sees exactly what you saw. The chat shows only what you typed.

Summarize the whole thing

Summarize in chat starts a chat with the whole document attached and a summary request ready to send. Edit the request first if you want something narrower, such as the argument of one chapter or every number mentioned.

Good to know

• Reading happens on your computer. What you send to chat goes to the agent and model you chose there, like any other message.
• It helps most with old, dense, or unfamiliar material. Read a little, ask a little, keep going.
• Each chat answer notes whether it rested on the text you sent or on the model’s memory. See Agents and chat.