Chat & AI
Sending follow-ups while a reply is being written
You do not have to wait for a reply to finish. Queue up to two messages, or send one straight away.
Step 1
Queue a message
While Secretary is writing, the black square Stop button sits beside Send and the hint under the box changes to "Press Enter to queue". Type your next message and press Enter, or press Send. Your message waits its turn and goes out automatically when the reply finishes. Up to two messages can wait.
Press Enter to queue, Cmd/Ctrl+Enter to send now
Step 2
A waiting message
A queued message shows faded under the last message with a Queued, next pill. A second one reads Queued. Hover the pill for what will happen to it.
Step 3
Edit or remove it
Edit takes the message out of the queue and puts its text back in the box; Remove drops it. Edit is not offered when the message carries files, so remove and re-attach instead.
Step 4
Send now instead
Press Send now on a waiting message, or Cmd or Ctrl+Enter in the composer, to stop the current reply and send immediately. The interrupted reply is kept with a note that it was cut short, and the part written before you stopped counts toward your usage.
Step 5
Stop or an error holds the queue
Pressing Stop ends the current reply and holds any waiting messages. If a reply fails, for example because the AI service has a problem, the waiting messages are held in the same way. Their pill changes to Held and Send now becomes Send. Nothing goes out on its own after a Stop or an error; press Send on a message when you are ready, and the rest of the queue carries on after it.
Step 6
The queue is full
With two messages waiting the hint reads "2 waiting", and a third press tells you the queue is full. Waiting messages are saved with the chat, so they are still there after a reload or in another tab. If you have the same chat open in several tabs, the reply shows live in each of them.
Press Enter to queue (2 waiting), Cmd/Ctrl+Enter to send now
Step 7
Committee rounds are the exception
During a committee round the composer stays locked until you pick a response, so there is nothing to queue.
Press Enter to send, Shift+Enter for new line
Try 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.