Ask your library
Ask synthesises an answer from your own documents — not the internet. Every claim in the answer is tied back to the specific passage it came from, so you can check the source immediately.
How to ask
Ask is accessed from the knowledge graph page via the Lens:
- Type your question into the Lens input.
- Once semantic results appear (three or more characters, with hits), a button labelled Ask your library: "your question" appears at the top of the results panel.
- Click it. The system retrieves the most relevant passages from your documents, passes them to a language model, and streams the answer back.
The answer appears in place of the search results panel. A "Reading your library…" indicator pulses while the model is generating.
Citations
The answer is followed by a row of citation buttons — one per source passage used. Each button shows the document title. Clicking it opens the inline document reader for that document, so you can read the full context the answer was drawn from.
Note
Ask only draws on the documents in your own library. It does not search the web or use external knowledge beyond what was in the language model's training data.
Returning to results
Below the answer, a back to results link returns the panel to the list of semantic search hits, so you can browse the individual passages if you want more detail than the synthesised answer provides.
Limitations
- Ask works best when the answer is contained within your documents. For questions your library does not cover, the model may decline to answer or note that the information was not found.
- Very long answers may be cut off by the model's output limit.
- Ask requires at least one semantic search hit to be available — it does not appear for title-only matches or when the Lens has fewer than three characters.