FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
ZELICA is an ideation tool designed to help you store, organize, and develop your ideas. It combines four powerful tools - Pad, Board, Chat, and Library - with AI-driven insights to help you turn your concepts into reality.
Our AI assists you in two distinct ways:
- Reactive: Through the Chat function, you can ask the AI assistant about anything related to your project or content. You ask questions, and the AI responds with helpful information or guidance based on your input.
- Proactive: The AI generates automated suggestions by analyzing your project. It suggests new ideas, strategies, or external information to help you move forward, even when you don’t ask for help directly.
- Your Pad: Your Goal provides focus, while the Progress section helps the AI understand where you are in the process.
- Notes and conversations: Only notes from your Board and conversations from your Chats that you’ve marked are retrieved and considered by the AI when generating suggestions. This ensures that only the most relevant content is used to guide the suggestions.
- Web pages and files: Saved web pages and files in your Library marked are also analyzed.
- Past suggestions: The AI learns from previous suggestions, using your feedback. If you marked suggestions as (helpful) or (not helpful), it refines future suggestions accordingly.
- Relevant external information: The AI pulls in new, up-to-date information from sources such as white papers and news articles that align with your project to provide additional insights.
Interaction-based frequency: You can choose how often you’d like new suggestions in your Account, but suggestions are also based on your activity. Regular updates and engagement signal that you’re actively working on your project, prompting new suggestions. If you aren’t interacting with your project, suggestions may pause until you re-engage. The more you interact, the more personalized the suggestions become over time.
You’ll see the icon at the top of your screen, and your new suggestions will appear in the Suggestions tab on your Pad. You’ll also receive an email notification when they’re ready.
It’s a good place to get started. The Pad helps you organize your thoughts into a structured format. Your Goal defines what you’re trying to achieve, and Progress tracks your current status - what you’ve done so far and what you plan to do. It’s also where your AI-driven suggestions will appear.
A concise Goal helps the AI focus on the core of your project, leading to more accurate and relevant suggestions.
The Board is where you can ‘pin’ and organize your thoughts.
Think of it like a detective’s board. Just as detectives pin evidence and suspects on a wall and use string to connect clues, you can use the Board to link ideas and uncover connections in your project.
Why connect notes together?
Connecting notes helps our AI better understand your thought process. You can also mark notes for AI consideration to ensure only relevant ideas are used in generating suggestions.
Add any files and web pages that are relevant to your project. You can query anything in your Library using our chat assistant. You can also mark particular files and web pages so our AI knows to consider them when generating suggestions.
On desktop, click and hold on a note, then drag it to your desired location.
On mobile or tablet, use the icon to drag and move notes.
Connecting notes helps our AI - and hopefully you - understand how different ideas can come together into a cohesive whole.
Also, as your board gets busier, clicking on an emoji to display all notes in this connection (while hiding all other notes) is a very useful tool for managing complex ideas.
To connect two or more notes, turn on Connection Mode using the button at the top of your Board and then:
- Click on the notes you want to connect.
- Once you’ve selected the notes, click the green “Confirm connection” button that will appear at the top of the screen.
- To exit connection mode without saving, click the red “Cancel” button.
Once you’ve created a connection:
- An emoji will be displayed on each note in the connection. The emoji itself is chosen randomly.
- Click on the emoji if you wish to edit or delete the connection.
Emojis are used to show connections - notes that share a connection have the same emoji. The emoji used for each connection is chosen randomly.
To mark a note for AI consideration, click the in the bottom right-hand corner of a note - it will turn purple when active. This tells the app to include the note in its analysis when generating suggestions. For the best suggestions, it’s important to be selective about which notes you mark to keep the AI’s focus on the most relevant information.
To mark a conversation for AI consideration, click the next to a conversation title in the list of conversations on the left-hand side of your Chat page - it will turn purple when active. This tells the app to include the conversation in its analysis when generating suggestions. For the best suggestions, it’s important to be selective about which conversations you mark to keep the AI’s focus on the most relevant information.
To mark a page or file for AI consideration, click the next to a title in your list of saved pages or files - it will turn purple when active. This tells the app to include the page or file in its analysis when generating suggestions. For the best suggestions, it’s important to be selective about which pages and files you mark to keep the AI’s focus on the most relevant information.
Minimizing the number of marked items helps the AI focus on the most pertinent information, leading to more accurate and relevant suggestions.
A new chat conversation begins each time you visit the Chat page. Old conversations appear on the left so you can jump back in at any time.
Sometimes you just need a breather. If you stop using it for a while, ZELICA will reduce the frequency of AI suggestions to avoid overwhelming you. The AI waits for changes or new information before generating further suggestions. This approach ensures that the advice you receive is always timely and relevant.
Not yet. We’ll add this feature later.
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