Report Writer and the co-author

Report Writer documents hold headings, lists, tables, figures, Mermaid diagrams and citations. They are saved to your account, and earlier versions stay in the version history.

An image you paste or drop from a chat answer is uploaded into the page, so it stays when the chat’s own link expires and every member of a shared page sees it. Interactive figure, in the toolbar or with /interactive, adds one version of an HTML page made in a chat, with its caption and alt text; it runs in the page as it does in the chat. HTML pages

Cite a work by its DOI or PubMed ID. RBAi looks up its record at Crossref or NCBI, adds it to the document’s bibliography and inserts the citation at the cursor. The reference lives in the document, so it syncs and undoes like any other edit.

Open the co-author to work on the document together. Ask in your own words: to write, rewrite or review, or to add a table, a diagram or a citation. Examples type themselves in the empty message box, such as a draft of the section around your cursor, and stop when you start typing. In the page, the / menu has Ask the co-author and Draft this section.

The co-author has the Thinking level beside its message box. A task is charged by the tokens it uses. Its answers stream into the panel as it writes.

Each request ends with a one-line summary of what changed. Open it to see every edit, each with Show in document and Undo this edit, or Accept and Reject for a suggestion.

Pending suggestions and comments are collected at the top of the panel, with Accept all, Reject all and Resolve.

The co-author keeps working if you close the tab. Its edits are in the document when you come back.

A long task, such as a review in ten sections, is not cut at a time limit: before each 15 minutes run out, the co-author continues in a new run, and the panel shows Continuing in between. Stop ends it at any point, and every section it finished stays in the page. When your credits run out, it stops the same way, shows Stopped: credits used up and offers more credits.

Share a page with other RBAi members as an Editor or a Viewer. In Add people, find them by name, institution or email, as in Connect. They get a notification, one email and a Connect message with the page’s link, and the page appears under Shared with me in their Report Writer. An exact email address adds any RBAi account, also one that does not take Connect messages; the dialog then says why no message went.

• Editors type in the same page at the same time. Each sees the others’ text within about a second, with a coloured cursor and their name.
• The page shows Saved, Syncing or Offline. Changes made offline sync when the connection returns, as long as the tab stays open.
• Viewers read the page; they cannot edit it or use the co-author.
• The co-author’s edits on a shared page merge with what the others type.

The clock icon opens the page’s history: who changed which section, when, and how many words were added or removed. Select an entry to see the change, with added words in green and removed words struck through in red.

Restore this version returns the whole page to that point, after asking first; the page as it was before is kept as a snapshot. Viewers can read the history but not restore. You can also ask the co-author, for example What did my co-author change today?

Export a page as Word, PDF, HTML or Markdown. In a Word export every figure is a picture: SVG and WebP figures are converted to PNG at twice their shown width or more. A figure that cannot be read or converted is left out, with the line [Figure left out: … could not be converted for Word. Open the page in RBAi to see it.] in its place, and the export names it. An Interactive figure is exported as its caption.

Publish, in the page toolbar, puts the page on your public page after a preview. Only the page’s owner can publish it; for an Editor or a Viewer the button is dimmed and says why. Website