A suggestion is the next sentence or two, written in grey after your cursor. It is not in your chapter until you accept it.
Ask for one
- Press Ctrl+/ (⌘+/ on a Mac) or the Suggest button.
- Or turn on Suggest without my asking in Settings: a suggestion then appears about a second after you stop typing.
- Shift+→ lets you say first what the next sentence should do.
Keep it, or part of it
- Tab or →, or Accept: keep the whole suggestion.
- Alt+→ or One word: keep one word at a time.
- Esc or Dismiss: throw it away.
The buttons are on the bar under the text, so all of this works on a phone too.
Refine it
Refine asks again with a change: Shorter, More formal, Stay closer to my topic, Complete this paragraph, A contrasting finding, or Your own instruction…. Each refined suggestion uses one of your Assist suggestions.
After a refine, ‹ and › on the bar step back to the earlier suggestions at the same place, so a better first try is not lost.
Rate it
The thumbs up and down mark a suggestion as useful or not. Rating it does not keep or dismiss it, and it uses nothing from your allowance.
Why it only cites your library
A suggestion sees your chapter around the cursor, your outline and glossary, and passages from the papers in your library — or only from the sources you pinned in the Sources tab, if you pinned some. It may only cite a passage it was given. If it names anything else, that citation is removed before you see it. This is how every citation in your thesis stays traceable to something you can open and read.
When a suggestion cites a paper, Evidence on the bar opens the passage it stands on. Read it before you keep the sentence: a citation is a pointer to a passage, not proof.
What counts
A suggestion counts against your month when it is generated, whether you keep it or dismiss it. Nothing you type counts. Every accepted suggestion stays marked as AI-written in your document.