# Chat

> Ask Italic about anything you've recorded, and ask it to draft emails, events and reminders for you to approve.

Chat is one conversation with Italic about everything you've recorded. Ask a
question and Italic searches your Clips and Memos, answers, and links the
recordings it used. Ask it to do something and it drafts the email, event or
reminder for you to approve.

Chat is in the web app (**Chat** in the sidebar), in Italic for Mac and in the
Italic app on iPhone. It's the same conversation, with the same messages,
everywhere you're signed in.

<Screenshot src="/images/chat/chat" width={1600} height={1000} alt="Chat in the web app, with Chat and Tasks at the top, suggested questions such as What did I decide last week?, a bar saying 3 drafts waiting for you with Review, and the Ask anything box." caption="Chat on the web. The bar above the message box says what's waiting in Tasks." />

## Ask about your recordings [#ask-about-your-recordings]

Ask the way you'd ask a person:

- "What did I say about pricing last week?"
- "Recap my notes from Tuesday's call."
- "When did I last mention the Lisbon trip?"

To ask about one Clip or Memo, choose **Send to Chat** from its **⋯** menu in
the list (on iPhone, press and hold it). Chat opens with that recording
attached, ready for your question.

A reply appears as Italic writes it. Choose **Stop** to end it where it is: what
it has written so far stays in the conversation.

Above each reply, Italic shows what it looked at, such as "Searched “pricing”
· 2 matches". Every recording Italic cites is a link: choose it to open the
recording.

If you've connected apps in [Connectors](/connectors), Italic can look there
too, for example your calendar or your email. Each line shows the logo of the
app it checked. When a reply looked at more than one thing, the lines fold
into one row, such as "Checked Gmail, Google Calendar and 2 more". Choose the
row to see each line.

On the web, Chat opens at the newest message. Choose **Show earlier messages**
to load older ones without losing your place.

## Ask with your voice [#ask-with-your-voice]

On the web and in Italic for Mac, the bar at the bottom of Home, Chat, Tasks
and every Clip or Memo page is the same bar, in the same place. At rest it's
one line: **Add** for a photo, **Ask Italic**, and the mic on the right. Press
the field and the bar opens to two rows: what you type on top, from two lines
up to about five, then **Add**, the chat model, the mic and the round **Send**.
Left empty, it goes back to one line. Scrolling the page or pressing outside
the bar lets go of the field.

Tap the mic, speak, and tap the stop square. Italic transcribes what you said, in your language and with your
Vocabulary, and puts the words in the field, so you can read and change them
before you send. Nothing is saved as a Clip or Memo. It listens for up to 5
minutes: choose **✕** or press **Esc** to throw away what you said. The first
time, your browser or Mac asks to use the microphone. Speaking counts toward
your daily limit like a recording.

While a reply is coming in, **Send** is **Stop**.

On Home and Tasks, a question opens Chat and asks it there. **Add** takes the
photo to Chat, where it waits in the message box with what you typed.

On iPhone, your iPhone transcribes what you said with the same speech model as
the Record tab, and **✕** takes **Add**'s place to cancel. The mic doesn't
listen while you're recording, and only one bar listens at a time. From App 332
to App 341, the iPhone's mic is the round button at the bar's right end, which
becomes **Send** when you type or press the field. App 342 and later have the
two-row bar, with the mic beside **Send**.

## Ask about one recording [#ask-about-one-recording]

Every Clip and Memo page has the chat bar at the bottom, in the web app, in
Italic for Mac and on iPhone. On the web and Mac it's the same bar as on Home,
with **Add**: a photo you add goes to Chat with the question. Ask there, and "this" means that recording:
open a Memo and ask "Turn this into a to-do list", and the answer is about
that Memo. Sending takes you to Chat, where Italic answers and you can go
on.

In Chat, the question shows under a line naming the recording, such as
"Memo · Weekly planning", which opens it. The recording's page shows it too,
with Italic's answer: choose **Show in chat** to go back to it in Chat.

When a [workflow](/workflows) ran on a Clip or Memo, the run is the first
thing on its page, and its drafts and questions work there as they do in
Chat.

## A chat that is never wiped [#a-chat-that-is-never-wiped]

Chat has no clear button, so you can always scroll back to what Italic said
and did.

Italic answers the message you just sent. An earlier question that didn't get
an answer stays in the chat, and Italic goes back to it only when you ask
again.

## Memories [#memories]

Italic keeps **Memories**: short facts and preferences about you, which every
chat reads.

- Say "remember that my sister is Anna" or "remember I like short answers",
  and Italic saves it.
- With **Learn from chats** on, Italic also saves lasting things you tell it
  in a chat, such as who someone is, your projects or how you like things
  done. Greetings and passing details aren't saved, and neither are
  passwords, codes or card numbers.
- See, edit and delete them in **Personalization → Memories**, on the web and
  the Mac, and in Profile → Personalization → Memories on iPhone. **Delete all
  memories** clears the list, and turning off Learn from chats stops the
  automatic ones. What you ask it to remember is saved either way.
- Italic keeps up to 500 memories.

Chat also reads your whole conversation, not just the last few messages:
as much as the model can take word for word, and a summary of what's older.

## Ask Italic to act [#ask-italic-to-act]

Ask for an email, an event or a reminder, and Italic drafts it:

- "Email Sam that I'm running late."
- "Add lunch with Dana on Friday at noon."
- "Remind me to call the bank at 9 tomorrow."

Italic doesn't send it yet. It creates a task, a draft for you to approve:

<Example caption="An example. The same task waits in Tasks on every device; once you choose Send, it becomes one line.">
  <You>Email Sam that I'm running late.</You>
  <Reply>Here's a draft for you to approve.</Reply>
  <Draft kind="Email" from="you@work.com" to="sam@example.com" subject="Running late">
    Hi Sam, I'm running about 15 minutes late. See you soon.
  </Draft>
  <Done>Sent “Running late” to sam@example.com</Done>
</Example>

Emails and events go through an account you've connected, such as
[Google](/connectors/google) or [Outlook](/connectors/outlook). Reminders go to
[Apple Reminders](/connectors/apple-reminders) on your iPhone.

The draft appears as a card in the conversation that looks like what it will
make: an email shows the account it goes from, who it's to, the subject and
the body. Choose **Send**, **Edit** or **Discard**. Once sent, the card
becomes one line, such as "Sent “Running late” to sam@example.com". See
[Tasks](/tasks) for everything a draft can do.

You can keep chatting while a draft waits. To change it, just ask: "Send it to
Jeff instead" updates the waiting draft, and you still choose Send.

Italic can also read for you: "What's on my calendar tomorrow?" checks your
calendar and answers.

### Draft a workflow [#draft-a-workflow]

Describe a [workflow](/workflows) and Italic drafts it as a card too: "Every
time I say “remind me”, add a reminder." The card shows the workflow's name,
when it runs and its steps. Choose **Create** to save it, **Edit** to open it
in the builder with everything filled in, or **Discard**. Nothing is saved
until you do, and a workflow you create runs on the recordings you make after
that. See [Build a workflow](/workflows/build).

### What needs your approval [#what-needs-your-approval]

Looking things up never needs approval. Anything that sends or creates
something waits as a draft until you approve it, unless you've chosen
**Allow without asking** for that app in [Connectors](/connectors). An app set
to **Off** isn't used at all.

Some drafts always wait for you, whatever the setting:

- An email with no recipient yet.
- Moving an email to the Trash.
- A workflow Italic drafts.

Apple Reminders run on your iPhone. In iPhone Chat, an approved reminder is
added right away. When you approve one in the web app or on the Mac, Italic
wakes your iPhone, which adds it without Italic being opened; a locked iPhone
adds it once you unlock it. With App 321 or earlier, the iPhone adds it the next
time Italic opens.

If Italic can't take actions for a while, it still answers and says so in the
reply, so you know it didn't choose not to act.

## Act with Apple Intelligence on iPhone [#act-with-apple-intelligence-on-iphone]

On an iPhone with Apple Intelligence, Chat can run on the phone. Choose
**Apple Intelligence** from the menu beside Send. Then:

- "Remind me to call the bank at 9 tomorrow" drafts a reminder. Approve it and
  it's added to Reminders.
- "Add lunch with Sam on Friday at noon" opens Apple's event editor, where you
  save it.
- An email asks you first before its one request goes to Italic's servers.

Nothing about these drafts leaves your iPhone unless you send an email.

The on-device model can't see or change drafts that are waiting. To change one
by asking, choose **Auto** or a model.

## Choose the model [#choose-the-model]

The menu beside Send names who answers, such as **Auto**. Choose it to pick
another.

In the web app and Italic for Mac, the menu lists **Auto** and the models
you've turned on, such as Claude Haiku 5.5, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, GLM 5.3
Flash and GPT-6 Luna. Auto picks the model for you: usually GPT-6 Luna, with
another model answering if it's down. To change which models the menu lists,
open **Personalization → Chat models**. At least one stays on.

On iPhone, the menu lists:

- **Auto**: Italic picks the model, as in the web app.
- **Apple Intelligence**: only this iPhone.
- Each model you've turned on, answered by Italic's servers.

Auto and each model are saved to your account, so a model you pick on the web
shows on the Mac and iPhone too. **Apple Intelligence** is the one choice that
stays on the iPhone. Workflows have their own model, on the
[Workflows](/workflows) page. Titles and summaries aren't affected by either
choice.

<Cards>
  <Card title="Tasks" href="/tasks">Review, edit and approve what Italic drafts.</Card>
  <Card title="Connectors" href="/connectors">Connect the apps Italic can read and act in.</Card>
  <Card title="Workflows" href="/workflows">Let a recording act for you without asking in Chat.</Card>
</Cards>