Follow-Up

Spotted a sentence in an AI reply worth digging into? Select it and start a follow-up in one click. Follow-ups live in their own threads, with layer-by-layer drilling and dashed anchors back to the original text — while the main conversation stays untouched.

⚡ TL;DR

Follow-up lets you select any sentence in an AI reply and drill into it in a separate thread, so deep dives never clutter your main conversation.

Overview

Traditionally, asking a follow-up means typing it into the main chat — the context gets diluted, and the details become hard to find later. Drill-down follow-up turns each question into an independent thread:

  • Anchored to your selection — every thread remembers the exact text you selected, so you can always jump back to its context
  • Multi-layer drilling — answers inside a follow-up can themselves be followed up, layer after layer; the panel shows the current depth ("Layer N")
  • Never disturbs the main chat — the main message flow stays as it is; threads are stored and managed separately
  • Streaming answers — follow-up replies stream in word by word, and can be stopped or regenerated anytime
📚 How it differs from branching

Branching is about re-answering the same question along different paths, producing switchable conversation branches. Follow-Up is about exploring a specific detail inside an answer, expanding layer by layer from your text selection. The two work great together.

Starting a Follow-Up

  1. Select any piece of text in an AI reply — a floating toolbar appears above the selection
  2. Click "Follow up" to create a new thread quoting the selected text, or click "Explain this" to have the AI explain the selection directly (the prompt prefix for explanations is customizable in settings)
  3. The follow-up panel opens with a quote card showing your selected text; type your question and send

Next to the chat input there is also a follow-up entry button showing the number of threads in the current conversation — click it to open the thread list.

The Follow-Up Panel

The panel has three parts:

  • Quote card — shows the text you selected when starting the thread; "Back to original" jumps to its location, and you can delete the whole thread here
  • Message list — the Q&A streams in; every answer supports copy, delete, stop generating and regenerate
  • Input box — keep asking in the current thread

The panel header shows a layer indicator (e.g. "Layer 2") and breadcrumb navigation. When several threads were created from the same text, a dropdown lets you switch between sibling threads. The panel can be expanded, collapsed or closed.

Multi-Layer Drilling

The real power is going deeper: inside the follow-up panel, you can select text in the AI's answers too — starting another follow-up enters the next layer (the layer indicator increments). Each drill leaves a dashed annotation on the answer text marking where the question was asked; clicking the annotation jumps to the corresponding thread.

With the breadcrumb and "Back to threads", you can move freely between any layers — untangling a complex question like an exploration tree.

Thread Management

  • Thread list — all follow-up threads of the current conversation in one place, each showing the selected text, message count and last activity
  • Delete thread — requires confirmation; deleting permanently removes every message in the thread
  • Export — copy the whole thread's Q&A to the clipboard in one click, ready to paste into a document or share
  • More sharing options — copy as image, save as file, add to folder

Model & Parameters

Follow-up answers inherit the model and parameters of the current chat tab: whichever model you picked for the conversation answers the follow-ups — nothing to configure. Switch chat tabs and new follow-ups follow the new tab's model setting.

  • AI Chat — the conversation system follow-ups build on
  • Branching — multi-path exploration of the same question
  • Prompt Templates — customize the "Explain this" prompt prefix
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