Chat
Chat is where you and Mesh talk. Hand it exactly what you are talking about, watch the answer arrive, and see Mesh create and change real things in your Workspace.
The panel
Open Mesh from the right rail: the conversation above, the message box below. The tab on the left edge opens your list of chats, and one Workspace can keep several chats going. Along the bottom of the message box sit the chat's Model & reasoning choice and the Commands (/) button for your saved Commands.
Write the request
Type your message and choose Send message. Along with your words, one message can carry Focus items, one quote, one picture, and one saved Command.
Point with Focus
Focus hands Mesh the exact thing you mean. Type @ in the message box, or choose Add to chat (@), and the Add to chat search opens over the box. Choose an item to add it to this message as a Reference. Point at as many things as the request needs.
Add to message
Two jobs sit side by side here. Focus says what this message is about; your Active Topic says where you are working. The chip in the panel's chrome names the Active Topic, and the message box wears a green edge while one is set.
Pin the thing you keep talking about
Pinning is pointing that keeps pointing. Point Mesh at something once and it comes along with every message you send in this chat, so a run of follow-up questions all land on the same thing without you adding it again each time. A pin lasts until you take it off.
Try it. Tap the tab on the message box.
The tab tucks the drawer away or keeps it out. The × on a pill takes that item off.
- Open Add to chat (@) and choose the pin beside an item. A filled pin means it is already pinned; choose it again to Unpin from chat. Something already sitting in your message can also be pinned from its own card with Pin to chat.
- Pinned items ride in a drawer behind the message box. The small pin tab on the box's top edge peeks the drawer open, and switches it between Keep context open and Let context tuck away.
- Take one off with Unpin from chat — on the pill itself, or on that item's card. Everything else stays pinned.
Quote one earlier message
When this, that, or it should point back to something said earlier, quote that message. The quote rides along as a card that shows the original and can Go to message. Mesh reads it as the words you're both looking at.
Attach a picture
When the visual details matter, add one picture to your message. Choosing another replaces the first; it's one per message.
- Board view sends exactly what the Board is showing on your screen right now. Type /board to reach it.
- Board snip sends one area you drag a box around. Type /snip to reach it.
- Paste an image straight into the message box, up to 10 MB.
The picture belongs to that one message. It is saved to your Images and shown with the message, so you can see exactly what Mesh saw.
Sent messages don't change
Every sent message keeps a fixed copy of what came with it: the Active Topic, Focus, quote, picture, and Command from that moment. Unpin something or switch Active Topic later and future messages change; the ones you already sent stay exactly as they were.
Read the transcript
The transcript is the conversation itself: your messages on the soft gray, Mesh's on white paper.
Try it. Tap the pin, a clock, or a quote button.
Going back to A shape is... - make me a short practice set from the reflection section, with each hidden answer directly under its problem.
Done - five problems, easiest first, each followed by a named collapsible answer block.
- Two small buttons sit in the corner of every message: one shows the time it was sent, the other is Quote message.
- A message that went out with pinned items opens with a small pin in the opposite corner. Choose it to see exactly what came along.
- Mesh's replies close with the row naming what it created or edited. History & outcomes covers what those rows mean.
- A long chat opens on its recent stretch. Show earlier messages brings back what came before.
- Go to message jumps to an older quoted message and highlights it, pulling in earlier messages on the way.