Files and books in a chat

The paperclip in the message box (or dragging a file onto the chat) adds a file to the chat: PDF, Word (.docx), EPUB books, text, Markdown, web pages, subtitles, CSV tables and code files, up to about 60 MB. GlirOS reads it on this device and makes a map of it (chapters, pages, headings, functions with line numbers). With every message the model gets that map and the passages that fit the question, so it can answer about a whole book and say where (a page or chapter). Ask about a part by name, e.g. "chapter 3", "page 45", "line 120" or a function name. Click a file's chip on the message to open it with its map. The file stays with that chat; a scanned PDF without a text layer can't be read yet. Search by meaning (Settings > Files, off by default) also finds passages that say what you ask in other words: it downloads a small model (multilingual-e5-small, about 135 MB) to this device once and prepares each file in the background; nothing is sent anywhere.

This guide is the same text GlirOS itself uses to answer questions about GlirOS.