# What are AI Docs?

AI Docs is an AI-powered document workspace that enables content generation, summarization, rewriting, and contextual understanding of documents through natural language instructions.

### Two Editing Modes

AI Docs offers two powerful ways to work, depending on your workflow and design needs:

#### Plain Mode

A clean, AI-enabled markdown editor designed for focused writing and structured content creation.

* Minimal, distraction-free interface
* Markdown-based formatting
* Ideal for reports, documentation, research, and structured writing
* AI assistance built directly into your writing flow
* Similar to a Notion-style intelligent editor

Best for clarity, speed, and content-first workflows.

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#### Studio Mode

A visual, HTML canvas-based editor for rich layouts and design flexibility.

* Drag-and-drop style editing
* Advanced layout control
* Rich formatting and visual customization
* Ideal for polished documents, branded materials, and presentation-style content
* Mix design, structure, and AI seamlessly

Best for design-heavy, visually structured documents.

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#### Getting Started with AI Docs

You can create a document in three ways:

* **Blank document** – Start with an empty canvas and build your content manually or with AI
* **Prompt-based creation** – Describe what you want, and AI generates a structured document
* **Templates** – Choose from pre-built templates for common use cases. You can choose from:
  * Job Applications
  * Email
  * Marketing
  * Business & Report
  * Education & Research
  * Legal & Finance
  * Markdown Templates

#### Editing & Writing with AI

AI Docs allows you to improve your documents using:

1. **Edit on Canvas** – Edit or refine specific parts of your document through conversation with AI. Just select the part you want to edit
2. **Fix Grammar** – Automatically rewrites and improve selected sections for grammar, punctuation, and general english improvements.
3. **Shorten** – Summarize selected content into concise, easy-to-digest points.
4. **Extend** – Expand selected points with additional detail and explanation.
5. **Chat Mode** – You can use the **Chat Mode** to plan and research your document without the agent hallucinating! Just select the "**Chat**" option from the prompt box and ask whatever you want!

All AI changes can be reviewed and edited manually at any time.

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#### Manual Editing & Rich Content

In addition to AI editing, you can:

* Manually edit text and formatting
* Insert images, files, and links
* Mix AI-generated and human-written content seamlessly
* Customize layouts and structure freely

AI Docs works like a full document editor with AI assistance built in.

### Files, Images & Attachments

* **Documents**: `.pdf`, `.docx`, `.pptx`, `.xlsx`, `.txt`, `.csv`, `.json`, `.md`, `.html`, `.epub`
* **Images**: `.jpg`, `.jpeg`, `.png`, `.gif`, `.webp`
* **File size**: up to 25 MB per file.
* **Maximum files per document**: Up to 5 files
* **Maximum file size**: 20 MB per file

### AI Tools Available in Docs

AI Docs supports the following AI-powered actions:

* Search documents&#x20;
* Understand images
* Analyze External Links Provided
* **Search the internet** to gather and reference information

These tools help enrich your document with context, research, and external data.

### Exporting Documents

You can manually export your documents in standard formats for PDF and HTML.

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#### Supported Export Formats

* PDF&#x20;
* HTML&#x20;
* Docx - Plain Docs only&#x20;
* Markdown - Plain Docs only&#x20;

Exports preserve structure, formatting, and embedded content.


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