Be able to push edits directly into the doc (or better yet, Google Docs) so we're not copying and pasting! Also, better format exports coming into and out of Lex
under review
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Craig Zelizer
aGree thus would be great. Also don't see a way to import documents without copy paste.
Fred Rivett
Craig Zelizer: You can import from the docs homepagr with the arrow next to "New document", just shipped import from Google Drive there!
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Charlie W
Wow, dude, thanks for the thoughtful response. I know these things aren't click-of-a-button easy. I'll try to get a screenshot example of my next export, if issues. IIRC, I've dealt with large line spacing but I'll check my style bar too.
Is the Apply Now button already there in comments? Maybe I missed that. Or do you mean that's what you're working on now?
Fred Rivett
Yeah sorry easy to get lost in a long reply like that! The apply button is
in the works
as my top priority, and we've shipped step one below — revamped Action Bar (the menu on the right when you select text) and cmd+k, type "Make this punchier" to auto trigger Ask Lex (works both for a selection and on the whole paragraph with no selection).Nathan just shipped a new onboarding video for it: https://lex-14.wistia.com/reviews/jvh4z9vj4v
Step two is in the works now, then the rest will follow from that, so more coming down the chute pretty soon!
Definitely good to see the issues you're facing, aware there's lots of papercuts still, chipping away (just shipped click below the last paragraph to insert a new one today, step by step).
Cheers Charlie!
Fred Rivett
under review
Totally agree on these Charlie.
1. Google Docs import/export
We're actively working on a Google Docs integration but it's not that trivial to do unfortunately (due to a combo of privacy reasons [good] and a limited API [bad]).
First step will be importing from a Google Doc which hopefully won't be too long before it's live (but isn't one I'm personally working on so I don't want to commit to a timeline).
2. Pushing edits into the doc
Agreed! We've already started work on an "Apply button" feature.
Our first stab is to do this within Ask Lex as a comment (@Lex), as this is a narrower scope than trying to map AI suggestions across a whole document as we already know which part you're wanting to work on.
Step one was making it so you can just press cmd+k (or ctrl+k on windows) and type and it'll use that as an edit request for Ask Lex, that's just gone live (worth a try).
Step two is improving this so we can show the same suggestions output in the comment view as we do in full Ask Lex sidebar.
We also want to pull context tags in here too, and allow you to jump from a comment chat into a full Ask Lex thread if it gets too long.
After that I'll start working on the apply button, so alongside copy you can click apply.
Once that's done then we'll look at improving the UI/UX of suggestions so they can actually show in the doc rather than just in a diff in the chat.
Once that works well for inline Ask Lex as a comment we'll look to implement this in the full Ask Lex chat too (just need to be confident in mapping AI suggestions to the right position, have ideas for this but is a wider scope than dealing with a small section).
3. Better format import/exports
I shipped an improvement to this earlier this week as our export to PDF/Word was limited, it's much better now as it doesn't have an intermediary step of converting to markdown which lost a lot of detail.
If you're seeing anything specifically off on this please let me know (screenshots/screen recordings even better) and I'll see what I can do.