Better instant chat
I love the instant chat in v2—it really makes the app stand out! It’d be great if it worked faster, and had more intuitive UX.
Reflect handles this well: you can edit prompts from the library right in the same menu, and it cuts down on clicks by letting you scroll through your presaved promts upon opening the quick chat, without having to go into a separate menu. Most of the time, I just want to use a saved prompt, so getting to them quicker would be a big help.
I think most Bolt users already use Raycast AI like me, so bolt fills the niche of being able to scroll through my presaved prompts:)
Reflect also lets you instantly copy or replace selected text with AI output, or rerun a command with an edited prompt. It’s way more efficient.
I know Bolt can do this with workflows, but that feels like too much hassle. Attaching a video from reflect :)
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Daniel Nguyen
Jan 6
Hmm I don’t follow your feedback. Most of that can be done by using the AI Workflow. Are you suggesting bring Workflow features to the Instant Chat bar?
I honestly don’t think that’s a good idea
Wren
Jan 6
Yes something like that! Mapping each workflow to a separate keyboard shortcut is just so much hassle, and hard to remember so I never use them - being added to the instant chat panel, or perhaps having a separate popup window that lets me scroll through my workflows and pick one, letting me choose whether to copy or replace my selection with the output would make the workflows feature much more useful!
Wren
Jan 6
Right now workflows are just so buried in the settings, but it’s honestly a feature I could really use more if it was better accessible.
Daniel Nguyen
Jan 6
Yeah, then this is another issue, I think (discoverability). I don’t want to add more feature to the Instant Chat bar when there is a dedicated feature to solve the problem.
It makes the instant chat feature more bloated and unnecessary.
But other than discoverability, is there other reason why you don’t want to use the Workflow feature? It’s as easy as the instant chat bar feature
Wren
Jan 6
I think the main reason is the overlap with the prompt library, and having to manually set up each workflow one by one:)
Daniel Nguyen
Jan 6
Good point. I can make it easier to create a workflow from a prompt. Generally prompt = pure content and can be used in multiple places. Workflow has more configuration, and can control the AI inference + target output.
Wren
Jan 6
would be super appreciated 🙏
Daniel Nguyen
Jan 6
Hmm but you can already do that. Set a custom keyboard shortcut for the Workflow Palette (see screenshot)
It’s basically Instant Chat Bar but with much more advanced feature.
You can also type your prompt directly in the “Search workflows…” text field and have it perform an action with your highlighted text
Wren
Jan 6
Oh shoot I had no idea this existed! Am I able to view my prompts from there? or a way to unify the prompts library/workflows library? they would mostly be a duplicate of one another for me anyway, so I would just need to repopulate this with the same content again.
So cool that this exists though, definitely closer to what I was looking for!
If there was the ability to (sorry to keep bringing up reflect) select a workflow/prompt/ edit the prompt then and there, and choose what happens to the output from the workflow palette itself - sometimes I want a different output for some prompts than the preset one.
Daniel Nguyen
Jan 6
Unfortunately there is no option to do that yet. Most users want the ability to quickly run the workflow. You can type your prompt directly into the Search workflow bar to run it though.
In future release I think I can add support for “mention”, using
@to mention a prompt and use it.Wren
Jan 6
That would definitely fix my issue! Thank you so much for your work!