Ask Glob

Ask Glob is the conversation surface for questions, ideas and interpretation. You can ask about your current notes or ask what happened in your recorded history. The app chooses a different path for a general question, a contextual question and a question about your past.

Open the list panel's conversation/tools view and choose Glob. Enter your question in Ask Glob anything…, then press Return or the send arrow. The send button is disabled for an empty message and while a request is running.

Ask about a clear subject#

A short general question can be answered without attaching your notes. Do not assume that every answer read the graph.

For a project question, make the context explicit: “Based on this project, what evidence supports the garden layout?” Select a useful note and check that the intended project is active before sending.

For a history question, name the activity and time: “What did I record about the garden last week?” Glob can search recorded historical evidence for that kind of request. It cannot recover activity that was never captured.

What contextual chat can use#

Glob builds context when you send a contextual request. It can include the selected note, connected notes, parent and child summaries, the project summary, recent captures and tasks, relevant imported chunks, DataJar material and a summary of the conversation.

This is a selection, not your entire collection. Long bodies can be shortened and relevant items can be absent. If an answer misses a source, identify it more clearly or use Ask This Document for a selected import.

A confident sentence in an answer is not proof that a particular source was included. Compare important claims with the notes or excerpts themselves.

Deep#

The Deep button changes the AI route used for contextual conversation. It is remembered on this Mac. It does not make the context unlimited, reread every imported document or change every question into a deep synthesis.

General chat and historical-recall questions keep their own routes. Changing Deep can therefore leave those answers' behaviour unchanged.

Answers about your history#

A successful history answer shows a Confidence label, a source count and the time window considered. It can include evidence chips with a source title and date. These chips identify cited material; they are not guaranteed navigation buttons.

Glob may hold back an answer rather than show it without verified evidence. Messages include:

• “No evidence in your history matched this question.” Try a different description or a question about activity you know you captured.
• “Glob's answer didn't cite any evidence. Held back so you're not getting a guess.” No supported answer was displayed; rephrase rather than treating the blank result as confirmation.
• “Glob cited evidence we couldn't verify. Held back to avoid invented sources.” Compare with your sources and try a narrower question.
• “Glob's answer didn't parse. Try asking again.” The returned answer could not be read in the required form.

History answers can also be blocked by reflection settings, a paused reflection system, a daily AI budget or a provider error. These states do not mean your notes have been deleted.

Conversations#

The conversation menu lists saved conversations. Choose New Chat, or use New conversation, the plus button, to start another. Selecting a previous title returns to that conversation.

Clear conversation, the trash button, clears the current messages and its conversation summary immediately. It does not erase notes, tasks or captures you already made from an answer.

Longer conversations can gain a compact summary to carry context between turns. The Conversation summary active indicator tells you that such a summary exists. It is not a statement that every earlier message is attached verbatim to the next request.

Conversation history is saved on the Mac on a best-effort basis. It is separate from project notes. Save material you need into an appropriate Glob item rather than using chat history as your only copy.

Save useful text#

Assistant answers offer actions to make a canvas node, task or snippet. With no text selected, the action uses the answer; with supported text selection, the floating actions use the selected passage.

The shipping-box menu offers Propose DataJar entry when jars exist. Choose the destination, then review the proposal in DataJars. A proposal is not a saved entry until you apply it there.

Other answer-to-item actions create items directly. Check the title and text afterwards, particularly when converting an interpretation into a task.

Partial answers and unavailable AI#

The Stream summaries as they generate setting also controls progressive display in this chat. If a stream fails after some text arrived, Glob keeps the partial answer and shows an error. A partial answer is not a completed response; review it before saving or quoting it.

Hosted AI requires an available account session and allowance. If the tools view says Sign in to Glob to connect hosted AI, check Settings → Glob Account. You do not need personal provider keys for the normal account-based route.

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