Open the chat
PressMod+I in the reader. The chat opens beside the article, already
holding it. Or click Ask Remy, or select a passage and choose Ask AI —
that carries the quote into the question so you do not have to describe what
you mean.
what is the actual evidence for the claim in the third section?Three more shortcuts once it is open:
Mod+Shift+N starts a fresh chat,
Mod+Shift+C copies the last answer, Escape closes the panel. There is a
full-page chat too, if you would rather have the conversation than the article.
What the chat can see
The article text goes across with your highlights attached. The first 12,000 characters sit directly in front of the model; past that, it has to go looking — and it can. It can outline the article, search inside it, and read further into it, so a question about the closing argument of a long piece still lands. It simply costs an extra step, which is why a long article sometimes takes a beat longer to answer. It reaches past the article, too: your library, your saved items, your feeds, and the open web. It works through at most ten steps per turn, then has to answer with what it has. You can attach up to four files to a message — PDFs, images (png, jpeg,
gif, webp), csv, markdown, or plain text.
Article text is treated as source material, never as instructions. A page that
contains “ignore your instructions and…” is quoted, not obeyed, and private
library text is never put into a public search query.
Is this conversation kept?
Yes, and the shape matters. Each article gets its own chat. Come back to a piece a month later and the conversation you had about it is still there, attached to that article rather than dumped into one endless thread. Alongside those sits a general conversation not bound to any article, for everything else. Sign in and your chats sync across your devices, threads and all. If you are signed out, chat still works — but those conversations never leave the device they were typed on. Nothing syncs them, and clearing the browser’s data ends them.Which model answers
By default, auto — smry picks. Signed-out and free accounts get a fast model; paid accounts get a stronger one on the same setting. Naming a specific model yourself is a paid feature; on a free account, auto is the option. Chat itself is not behind the paywall — signed-out visitors get a working chat. Everyone is capped at twelve messages a minute and sixty an hour.The summary you did not ask for
Open an article and a summary appears on its own. No click, no waiting for you to decide. It needs about a sentence of text to bother, and then it writes. If you do not want that, turn it off. Settings has a switch, and it is honoured before the page paints, so the card never flashes up and vanishes. You can still call a summary up deliberately withMod+J, from the reader
menu, or from the command palette.
You control the shape of it:
Each point carries one short bolded phrase so the list scans, and points cite
back into the article. Citations are checked against the real passages — a
citation that does not resolve is dropped rather than faked, so occasionally a
point arrives with no source attached to it.
Very long articles are sampled, not truncated. Above roughly 48,000
characters smry takes thirteen evenly spaced windows across the whole piece, so
the summary reflects the end as well as the beginning. It says so in the
prompt: representative excerpts, not exhaustive coverage.
Summaries are cached for 30 days against you, the article, its exact text, and
your summary settings. Reopen the article and it is instant. Change a setting
and it writes a new one, because the old one answered a different question.
Hover any link inside an article and, after a moment, you get a short preview
of what is on the other end — useful for deciding whether a citation is worth
the trip.
Questions
How many summaries do I get?
How many summaries do I get?
Free accounts get 100 a day and 15 a minute. Patron gets 500 a day. Pro
gets 5,000. Anonymous readers are on the free tier too.
Why did it say the article was too short?
Why did it say the article was too short?
Under about fifty characters of real text, smry declines rather than
inventing a summary of nothing.
Does the chat see the whole article?
Does the chat see the whole article?
It can, but not all at once. The opening 12,000 characters are in front of
it; the rest it fetches on demand. Ask about a specific section by name and
it will go and get it.
Are my chats private?
Are my chats private?
They are yours. Signed-in chats sync to your account; signed-out chats stay
on the device and sync nowhere.
Can my AI agent use this?
Can my AI agent use this?
No. Chat and summaries are app features. An agent connected over the API
reads articles and your library instead, and does its own reasoning.
Next
Highlights and notes
Mark the passage, then ask about it.
Listen instead
The same article, read aloud.
Ask your library
One question across everything you have saved, from your agent.