Chat with your documents
Reader's new chat feature allows you to chat with documents as you're reading. This is currently a preview version that's only available in the web and desktop versions, but we plan to reciprocate the feature to mobile as we continue to develop it.
To access the chat, open up any document and click Chat in the right sidebar (or hit the backtick ` twice to cycle between the panels).
The language model has access to the underlying document, its metadata, and your reading position, so it's more effective than other Ghostreader prompts at extracting detailed information, clarifying random questions that come up while reading, and applying the writer's concepts to domain-specific situations. The LLM also has access to the chat history, so you can more naturally ask follow up questions.
Since this is a preview version of the Chat feature, you might encounter use cases that need improvement. If you do, we'd love your feedback! Send us an email at hello@readwise.io.
Save chat responses
If you get a particularly useful or evocative response while chatting, you can save it to the document's note field. Not only will this separate the note out from the chat interface, it will also allow it to be synced to Readwise with the rest of the document's notes and highlights.
To save a response to the document note, click the notebook icon below the response.
Additionally, you can use the Copy icon to save the response to your clipboard for use elsewhere.
Change the GPT model
By default, it uses OpenAI's 4o model for quick replies, but you can optionally use the more powerful o3 reasoning model if you'd prefer to trade speed for intelligence.
To change the model, click into the dropdown menu at the bottom of the chat field.
Clear the chat history
If at any point you'd like to start fresh with a new chat, you can click Clear chat at the bottom of the Chat panel. This will erase all of the current responses, so make sure you've copied or saved anything you might want to keep before you click this!
