Chat & AI
Editing a message or regenerating a reply
Fix what you asked, or get a fresh answer, with another model if you like. Earlier answers stay as variants, and an interrupted reply can be sent again.
Step 1
Edit something you sent
Hover one of your messages and press the pencil that appears under it, Edit message.
Step 2
Change the text in place
The text becomes editable inside the bubble. Enter saves, Shift+Enter adds a line, Escape cancels; there are Cancel and Save buttons too.
Step 3
A new reply streams in
Saving sends the edited message again. The new answer appears in place of the old one, and the old one is kept as a variant.
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Retry a reply
Under any finished reply, press the circular arrow, Retry.
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Same model, or another one
The menu offers Retry with the same model, or Try with, which lists every model you can use, grouped by provider with the current one ticked. Pick another to see how it handles the same question without changing the chat's model.
Try with…
Anthropic
OpenAI
GoogleStep 6
Nothing is thrown away
Each edit or retry adds a variant. Arrows with a count such as 2 / 3 appear under the reply; page through them any time, and the model icon follows the variant you are looking at. The chat continues from whichever variant is showing.
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When Edit and Retry are hidden
They disappear while a reply is streaming and while you have follow-up messages waiting in the queue, so a re-run cannot cross with a queued send. Send or remove the waiting message and they come back.
Step 8
If a retry fails
A Retry Failed window names the cause. When the model was rate limited or the conversation is too long for it, the window offers Switch Model, which opens the model picker and sends the message again with the model you pick.
Retry Failed
Rate limit reached
Step 9
If a reply never arrived
If the connection drops or the server restarts while Secretary is answering, your message is left without a reply. A note under it says "This reply was interrupted." with a Retry button. Press Retry and Secretary removes the unanswered message and sends it again with the same attachments. The note shows only when nothing is generating, and in a shared chat only to the person who sent that message.
This reply was interrupted.
RetryTry it in Secretary, or create an account to get started.
Related guides
Starting a new chat
The start screen, starter prompts, temporary chats, and what New chat does once you are already in a conversation.
Attaching files to a chat message
Add a file from your computer so the AI can read it: press the paperclip, drag it in, or paste it.
Scoping a chat to specific documents or folders
Point the AI at exactly the files in your library it should answer from, and choose how deeply it reads them.