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Wissly understands natural language, but the specificity and scope of the question drive the quality of the answer.

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Be Specific

Specific questions get better answers than vague ones.
Vague ❌Specific ✅
“Show me revenue""Show me Q3 2024 domestic revenue"
"Find the contract""Find the maintenance contract with Samsung Electronics"
"Organize the meeting notes""Organize the November 15 product-team weekly meeting notes”

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Provide Context

Including background helps Wissly interpret your intent more accurately. 
"What's the estimated cost in the Project A proposal?"
→ identifies which proposal

"List the required documents from last year's year-end tax settlement guide"
→ identifies timing and purpose

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Scope the Question with Tags

Use the tag (@) feature to point the question at a specific subfolder or file inside your connected folders. Tagged items are prioritized for that session, which speeds up and sharpens the answer. Two ways to tag:
  • Drag and drop — drag a folder or file from the left navigation into the chat input.
  • @ mention — type @ in the chat input to open a list of taggable items.
"Using @2024_MeetingMinutes, summarize the marketing team's decisions"
"Summarize the termination terms of @CompanyA_Contract_2024.pdf in a table"
Templates, source materials, and evaluation criteria can all be tagged together to compose a compound request. See the grant-proposal example in Writing with the Canvas for a full walkthrough.

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Specify the Output Format

You can ask for the answer in a specific shape.

Brief

  • “Summarize in three lines”
  • “Just the key points”

Detailed

  • “Explain in detail”
  • “Include the background”

Structured

  • “Organize as a table”
  • “Create a comparison table”

Specific Length

  • “In one paragraph”
  • “About two pages”

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A Note on Reference Scope

Wissly prioritizes the documents in your connected folders, and falls back on general knowledge and web search when needed. See Internal Documents vs Web Search for how that works in practice.
Avoid overly broad requests. “Summarize all my documents” yields weak results — narrow the scope. Tagging is the quickest way.

Verifying Sources and Evidence

Learn how to verify the reliability of an answer.