Bring a file in
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From your computer
Drag the file into the composer, or choose Upload file from the + menu. You can also drop it onto the side pane.
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From a connected system
Use Sources in the + menu, or type
/, and pick a file or folder from SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox or Box.3
From a project
In a chat tagged to a project, open Brain and choose Open in Hebno from a file’s menu.
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From Hebno
Deliverables from a research run appear in the chat’s files as soon as they exist.
See what the chat is working with
Select the folder icon in the chat header to open the side pane on Chat files. Before you add anything it shows Nothing open yet: drop a document, deck or spreadsheet here, or attach one to a message. Files remain in the chat until you save them to a project. Each row has a label showing what you can do with it.
Select a row to open it. Word files open as working copies you can edit. Presentations and spreadsheets open for review: you can ask about them, select an area of a slide and keep notes, and download them. Save a change to a deck Hebno made by accepting it in the pane.
Long files
Hebno indexes a long file the first time it uses it, such as a 100-page PDF. It then searches the index by keyword and reads the relevant pages rather than the whole file, and the file remains available for later questions in the same chat. Ask by page number or by topic: “what does the indemnity clause on page 42 say”.Edit a Word file
Opening a.docx file turns it into an editable document in the side pane. Headings, lists, tables, and bold and italic text are preserved. Edit it like any document Hebno writes, or ask Hebno in chat to change a section.
Bring files from connected systems
Connect your own account under Settings → Connections, or select Connect the first time you use a system in chat. Hebno then searches and reads files with your permissions.- Pick a file to attach that file to the message.
- Pick a folder to attach the folder itself, not a copy. For the rest of the conversation Hebno can list, search and read files in it and its subfolders, using the connection of whoever is asking.
- Use project linked sources. In a chat tagged to a project, Hebno looks at the top two folder levels of the project’s linked sources before it answers, so you can say “the PR folder” or “the crisis playbook” without pasting a link. When you say “SharePoint” or “the existing files”, it starts there. See Project brain.