Using the Chat

Describe what you want in plain language and let Normain's chat build and adjust it for you.

The chat is the most flexible way to work in Normain, and one of the most powerful. Rather than clicking through every setting by hand, you describe what you want in plain language and the chat does it, from building a project from scratch to reshaping one you have already run. In practice there is very little it cannot set up for you. Examples include:

• Build a project from a description. Give it your documents and describe what you need to find, and it sets up the type of project that best fits your work, whether it’s a Simple, Repeat or Spreadsheet Extraction, or a multi-step Notebook.
• Edit anything already built. Reshape an Extraction (add a column, rewrite an insight, adjust the global prompt, set a run condition) or a Notebook (add, reorder, or rework steps and tabs), just by describing the change.
• Turn a document into questions. Send it a checklist, questionnaire, or framework and it pulls out every question as insight cards. Not sure what to ask? Describe the goal and it suggests the questions.
• Apply one instruction across many insights. Have it write the same prompt across every card or column at once, instead of repeating yourself.
• Work with your results. Ask about what came back and have it refine the analysis or re-run it, or in a Notebook, reply to a step’s result to improve it.

You can step in and edit anything the chat produces, and you can use it at any point, not only when you start. If you can describe it, the chat can usually build it, which makes it one of the fastest ways to get real work set up in Normain.