Ask with ⌘J and ghost text

These need Use AI on in Settings → AI. See Providers and keys. Nothing reaches your note until you accept it, and one ⌘Z undoes it.

Change text with ⌘J

1. Select some text, or put the caret in a paragraph.
2. Press ⌘J (Ask AI…).
3. Pick an action, or type your own instruction:
   • Rewrite
   • Shorter
   • Fix grammar and spelling
   • Translate (to Arabic or to English)
   • Formal or Plain tone
   • Continue writing
4. The reply streams in. Press ⏎ to accept, Retry to ask again, or Esc to discard.

Each action is also in ⌘K, the Edit menu and the selection toolbar.

Draft with /ai

On an empty line, type /ai and write what you want, such as “an intro about tide pools”. Press ⏎ to draft it. Write with AI… in ⌘K does the same on a line that has text.

Ghost text

Ghost text is a grey continuation of what you are writing. Press Tab to take it, Esc to drop it.

There are two kinds:

• Local ghost text finishes a word from the words in your note and folder. It uses no network and is off by default. Turn it on in Settings → Writing → Ghost text, or in ⌘K.
• AI ghost text continues your sentence with the provider you picked. Choose when it asks in Settings → AI → AI ghost text: As you pause, When you press ⌥Tab, or Off. With Ollama the default is As you pause. With a cloud key it is When you press ⌥Tab, so a paid key isn’t spent while you pause.

In shared notes

A note someone shared with you blocks AI until its owner turns on Allow AI helpers on this note in Share.