Read and ask

Once a document is built you can read it in Limn, and you can ask questions about the whole library in plain words. The answers come from your documents only, and each point links to the section it used.

#Read a document

1. Open Docs in the sidebar.
2. In Library, select a document. Its contents tree opens with its top-level chapters. Use the small arrow beside a row to open the sections under it, or Expand all and Collapse all above the tree.
3. Select a section to read it in the middle of the page.

Each section starts with a trail (document › chapter › section) and Previous / Contents / Next links. Links between sections open in Limn. A document from the web or a wiki keeps a link to its source, through Open the source. All documents shows the whole library with a summary of each document.

#Ask a question

1. Type your question in Ask about these docs and press Enter.
2. Read the answer. Select a link to open the section it quotes, with the quoted words highlighted.
3. Ask a follow-up. The chat remembers the earlier questions in the conversation, up to a limit.
4. Press New conversation to start again. Earlier conversations stay in the list until you delete them.

What the answer is built from

• Limn first finds the sections that best match your question and gives them to AI to start from. AI can then open other sections of the library.
• AI is told to answer from the library only, and to say so when the library does not cover the question.
• When two documents disagree, it cites both.
• Limn keeps a link only when it names a real section of a built document in this workspace, and keeps a quote only when the words are really in that section. Anything else is dropped.

#Highlighted quotes

Any link that carries a quote, from the chat, a review, a story check or a docs check, opens the section scrolled to the passage, highlighted, with one line above the page: “The quoted passage is highlighted.” If the document was rebuilt and the words are gone, the line says “The quoted words are no longer in this section.” and you land on the section instead.

#Why it helps

An answer with the passage beside it can be trusted or checked in seconds. Because every quote is checked against the document, the chat cannot invent a rule and put your document’s name on it. To find a word rather than ask a question, use Search the docs.