A tour of the window

The window

The app is one small window that stays on top, with no taskbar or dock entry. On Windows and macOS it is excluded from your own screen shares and recordings, so your notes stay yours. On macOS a sharing or recording app can override this when it captures the whole display without window filtering (in Zoom's settings, under Share Screen, then Advanced, then Screen capture modeShare Screen›Advanced›Screen capture mode, the mode "Advanced capture without window filtering"); the default modes respect it. On Linux the window is visible like any other window. It never hides the assistant from the other participants. Drag the header to move it and any edge or corner to resize it; it reopens at the size you left it. A warning triangle in the header means the window may show in your screen shares now.

In screenshots and screen sharing

On Windows and macOS, the app keeps its window out of your own screenshots, screen shares and recordings by default; on macOS a sharing app that captures the whole display without window filtering can still show it, as described above. On Linux, no app can keep its window out of them, so the window always shows there and the choice below is not offered.

To take a picture of the window, for example for a bug report, pick in Settings, then Advanced, then Screen captureSettings›Advanced›Screen capture how it stands in In screenshots and screen sharing. The default keeps it out. Visible for this session only shows it until the app quits. Visible, with a warning shows it with the warning sign in the header, and Visible, no warning shows it with no sign. The choice applies at once; pick the default again before a real call. If the window says "This system cannot keep the window out of screenshots and screen sharing", your system refused, and a share shows the window.

The other Screen capture settings

The rest of that section is in the pictures below, as Linux shows it, without the choice above. Screenshot picks what Help and Capture photograph: the main monitor (the default), one monitor, listed by its name and size, or all monitors; the app's own window is never in the picture. Hide the Linux screen-capture notice is off by default and turns the Linux notice off, as Don't show again on the notice does. Where the desktop asks which screens to share, a Screen sharing row with Choose screens again asks again. Review permissions opens the Review app permissions card again.

The header

The header starts with the app's figure, then the mood gauge, which stays at every window width. The status box comes next. Its first light is a set of sound bars, followed by Listening… or Paused: short and shimmering while the app listens, moving with the voice while one is heard, blue while speech is transcribed, a flat amber line when no sound comes at all, and pause bars while paused. Hover it to see where speech goes. After a thin line, the connection light is a green cloud while answers come from our hosted service, a grey plug while your own AI answers, and a blinking red crossed cloud when our server cannot be reached or you are signed out. A grey cloud means the app is still checking your account, and a grey crossed cloud means Own Key Lifetime is offline and your own AI answers. Hover it for the state in words. While our server cannot be reached, the box shows the connection light alone. With two or more prompts, the prompt picker next to Settings, a note with an arrow , switches the prompt in use; its tooltip names the active one. See the picture under Click-through.

The action bar

Each button repeats a keyboard shortcut for the mouse; its tooltip shows the keys, and on a narrow window Help () and Capture () show only their icons. See Settings and shortcuts for the full list.

The input bar

The bar along the bottom of the window is where you type a question. at its start adds documents or images, the box takes the question, and at its end sends it; Enter does the same. A notice, when the app has one for you, stands above the bar. See Ask by typing and Documents and images.

Click-through

Ctrl+Alt+X lets your clicks and keys pass through the window to the app underneath, while the hints stay visible. The window dims and shows in the header. While it is on, the window takes no input, so turn it off with the same shortcut (on Linux, also from the tray icon). It is off every time the app starts.

Hide and quit

Ctrl+Alt+H hides the window and brings it back. Quit with , Ctrl+Q while it is focused, or Ctrl+Alt+Q from anywhere. Only one copy of the app runs at a time.