Web Chat quickstart
Talk to alfred_ inside the app with full context awareness — alfred_ knows what email, event, or task you're looking at.
Web Chat is the in-app chat panel — same assistant as SMS, with richer UI affordances and full context awareness of whatever you’re viewing.
Screenshot — Web Chat panel open on the right side of the app, showing an active conversation about an email thread with a compose card preview
Opening the chat
- Keyboard shortcut —
Cmd+J(Mac) /Ctrl+J(Windows) - Sidebar icon — chat panel toggle on the left rail
- From any thread / event / task — chat opens scoped to that item
What “context awareness” means
When you open Web Chat from a specific email, event, or task, alfred_ knows what you’re looking at. You can say:
- “reply to this saying I’ll get back to them Monday” — alfred_ knows which thread “this” is
- “move this meeting to 4pm” — alfred_ knows which event
- “convert this to a task” — alfred_ knows which email
- “add a follow-up note” — alfred_ saves a note linked to the current item
No need to specify what “this” or “the meeting” refers to.
What you can do that SMS can’t
- Compose previews — see the full draft before sending, edit inline
- Attachments — drag/drop files into the chat
- Card-style results — kanban cards, calendar previews, task lists render as interactive UI
- Long-form answers — alfred_ doesn’t truncate the way SMS does
Common starting prompts
- “What’s the most important thing I should focus on right now?”
- “Summarize this thread”
- “What do you know about [person]?”
- “When was the last time I spoke with [person]?”
- “Pull tasks out of this email”
- “Find me 30 min for a call with John this week”
Switching between Web Chat and SMS
Both surfaces share active context for ~10 minutes — start a flow on SMS, finish on Web Chat (or vice versa).