Starting Conversations

The Chat tab is your main way to interact with NoteTalker. Type a message, press Enter, and NoteTalker responds — using your notes, memory, and tools to give you answers that are actually relevant to your life.

Sending Your First Message

Open the Chat tab and type anything in the message box at the bottom. Press Enter to send (or Shift + Enter for a new line).

NoteTalker will:

1. Search your vault for notes related to what you asked
2. Build a response using those notes as background context
3. Use tools if needed — reading files, creating notes, looking things up
4. Stream the reply back to you as it’s generated

You don’t need to phrase things in any special way. Talk to NoteTalker the same way you’d talk to a knowledgeable assistant who knows your notes and preferences.

Note

The local AI model unloads after about 10 minutes of inactivity to free up memory. The first response after a quiet stretch may take a few extra seconds while the model loads back in — after that, replies are quick again.

What NoteTalker Can Do During a Conversation

NoteTalker has 42 built-in tools it can use without you asking explicitly — the 14 most-used stay in the model’s context by default, and the rest load on demand. During a conversation you might see NoteTalker:

• Read a file — pulling up the contents of a note to answer your question
• Create or update a note — writing something down so you don’t have to
• Add a task — dropping a to-do into your daily note
• Search your vault — finding relevant information from across your notes
• Remember a fact — saving something to long-term memory for future conversations
• Check your calendar — looking up upcoming events
• Get the weather — if you’ve set your location in Settings

When NoteTalker uses a tool, you’ll see a small tool-call indicator appear in the chat as it works. The final response arrives once all the tool calls are complete.

Tip

Ask NoteTalker to search your vault, create notes, manage tasks, remember facts, or check your calendar — all from the chat. You don’t need to navigate to separate tabs for most of these things.

The Context Indicator

At the top of the chat panel, you’ll see a small context indicator showing how full the AI’s context window is:

Color	Meaning
Green	Plenty of room — NoteTalker has full context available
Yellow	Getting full — older messages may be summarized soon
Red	Near the limit — NoteTalker will start compacting history

When the context window fills up, NoteTalker automatically summarizes older parts of the conversation so the chat can continue. Before doing that, it saves any important facts to your long-term memory so nothing is lost.

You don’t need to manage this yourself — it’s automatic. But if you see yellow or red, it’s a good sign the conversation has been going for a while and starting a new chat might give you a cleaner experience.

Tips for Great Conversations

• Be specific — the more context you give, the better the response. “Summarize my notes on the Henderson project” beats “what do I know about that project?”
• Ask follow-up questions — NoteTalker remembers the full conversation, so you can build on what was just said
• Let NoteTalker use tools — if you ask NoteTalker to create something, it’ll do it directly rather than just telling you how
• Start a new chat when switching topics — this keeps context clean and responses focused