Working with AI
Ask Glob
Ask questions about your notes, review proposed changes, and save an answer on the canvas.
Ask Glob is a conversation panel for questions about your notes. You can ask what a group of notes establishes, find an unanswered question, or ask for new notes and connections. You choose whether to save an answer or apply a proposed change.
Sending questions requires a signed-in account with hosted AI access enabled. Requests also depend on the account's available allowance and the service being available. Signing in by itself does not guarantee AI access; see your Colli account if a request is refused.
Start a conversation
- Choose Ask Glob on the toolbar.
- Type in Ask about this canvas….
- Press Enter or choose Send.
Use Shift+Enter for a new line. While a request runs, the panel shows Thinking…, followed by the answer as it arrives. Another question cannot be sent until that request finishes.
For example, after collecting notes about a workshop, ask “Which decisions still need an owner?” To develop the material, ask “Add three notes about possible workshop formats and connect them to the planning note.”
Close the panel with Close Ask Glob, Escape, or a click outside it. Closing ends the current request and clears the conversation. Save an answer you want to keep before closing; reopening starts a new conversation.
What the question reads
The scope depends on where you open Ask Glob:
| Where you are | Notes used for the question |
|---|---|
| A shared canvas | Placed notes from that shared canvas. |
| Inside a node's canvas | Notes placed inside that node. |
| The top level of your private workspace | Active private notes. This collection can include notes outside the selected project. |
Selecting a node gives it priority in the supplied context. A large collection is shortened, and individual note text can be shortened too. The note count in the opening message describes the available collection; it does not guarantee that every word reaches the answer. Only recent conversation messages accompany follow-up questions.
Ask Glob does not browse a timeline of past activity. For questions about existing material, it is instructed to use the supplied notes and say when they do not cover the question. When you explicitly ask it to create or expand notes, it can use general knowledge as well as the supplied notes.
The Include lookups and summaries setting controls whether earlier AI results join the note text. It starts off. See contextual tools.
Review proposed changes
When you ask to add, reorganise, or connect material, an answer can include Proposed changes. This is a checklist of new nodes, tasks, and links.
- Untick anything you do not want.
- Use Show all to read a longer proposed body before creating it; Show less folds it again.
- Removing a proposed node also excludes links that depend on that node.
- Choose Create … selected to apply the selected changes.
The button changes to Creating…, then Created …. The same proposal cannot be applied twice from that card. A single proposal can contain up to 50 new nodes and 100 links; a request for more may produce a smaller selection.
Creating a proposal requires an editable canvas. On a shared canvas, you need the owner or editor role. If you switch away, return to the canvas the question used before applying its changes.
Proposed changes cannot currently be created from inside a private node's canvas. If you see “That cannot be made inside a node yet — leave the node first.”, return to the outer canvas and ask for the changes there.
Save a finished answer
A finished text answer has three actions:
| Action | What happens |
|---|---|
| Add to root node | Saves the answer as the root's summary and opens that node's editor. Inside a node, that entered node is the root. At the top level, the selected node identifies its tree's root. |
| Add to parent root | Available inside a node. Saves the answer as that node's summary, returns one canvas level, and opens its summary in the editor. |
| Add node | Creates a note with the question as its title and the answer as its body. If a node was selected when you asked, the new note links to it. |
With no selected node, Add to root node can use the only tree or the only explicitly marked root. If there is no single root to choose, select a node and ask again. Add to parent root shows Not inside a node at the top level.
Saving to a root replaces its current summary. It leaves the note body in place. Add node uses a shortened question when the title would be longer than 60 characters.
Each answer can be saved through one of these actions once. Its chosen button becomes Added and the row is disabled. If saving fails, “Could not add that summary. Try again.” leaves the actions available for another attempt.
If a request fails
Ask Glob shows the error in the conversation panel. A shared canvas must finish Loading shared canvas… before you can send a question. If loading fails, close the panel, reopen the shared canvas, and try again.
If an answer stops partway through, text that arrived may remain visible. The save actions appear only after a request finishes. Read a partial answer as incomplete before keeping it. For account access and AI allowances, see your Colli account. Data handling is described in the Privacy Policy.