Your own buttons, and one that answers
The popup is not only for translating. Next to the languages you can put buttons that rewrite the selected text — and one that answers a request you make in your own words.
Switch them on
- Open Settings → Text Capture.
- In The row, tap a chip to switch it on or off. Drag them into the order you want — the languages move too.
- Press Edit… to change what an instruction says, or to write your own.
They appear in the popup beside the languages, and in the bubble after a translation, so you can shorten the result you just got.
What the ready-made ones are for
- Fix — the message you wrote in a second language, checked before you send it. Spelling, grammar, punctuation; nothing else touched.
- Short — the paragraph that grew while you were thinking. Same facts, half the words.
- Formal — the quick note to a colleague, turned into something you can send a client.
- Simple — plain words, short sentences, no jargon. For a wider audience, or for a language nobody in the thread is native in.
Write your own
An instruction is one sentence, and it becomes a button. Some that people keep:
- “Rewrite as bullet points.”
- “Make it friendlier without making it longer.”
- “Turn this into a commit message.”
- “Rewrite as a Jira ticket: summary, steps, expected result.”
Ask: the button that answers
Every other button transforms the text you selected. Ask does what the text tells it to. Select what you wrote — “write a reply saying I can’t make Thursday” — press Ask, and the answer lands where the words were.
- Reply to a message without leaving the window. Select the message you received, press Ask, and it drafts an answer about it.
- Explain a paragraph. Select a dense sentence from a spec and ask what it means.
- Draft from nothing. Dictate “Jarq, write two sentences declining politely” and the answer appears at the cursor — no selection needed. Ask by voice works whether or not the button is on.
One rule holds everywhere: the text you select is treated as material, never as an instruction. A paragraph copied from a web page saying “ignore the above” gets rewritten, not obeyed.