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Attachments

Drop an image, file or folder into the message box, or paste an image. Check its card before sending. When pasted text becomes an attachment, its card identifies it as pasted text rather than an image or file.

The card identifies what you are adding. Images have a preview; file and folder cards show their real names. A folder reference does not mean that every file inside it has already been read.

Read the card's state

• A spinner on the card (before 0.2.18, Attaching…): Crew is still preparing the item. Wait before sending.
• Couldn't attach: preparation failed; the item is not ready to go with your message. Choose Retry on the card to try again.
• A ready card represents the item that will accompany your message. Remove an unwanted card with × before sending.

Crew won't send until every card has finished attaching. Send again when it's ready. A failed attachment is not evidence of a successful send; retry it or remove it before sending.

Control-click a card for Open, Show in Finder, Copy Path, Retry (when it failed) and Remove.

Long text becomes one card

Long text goes in as one pasted-text card, marked PASTED and showing its first lines, instead of filling the message box, so typing stays fast. This happens when:

• you paste more than 800 characters or more than 3 lines;
• you drop long text on the message box, or insert it from a menu or a Service;
• you bring back a very long earlier message with ↑.

↑ and ↓ in an empty message box bring back what you sent earlier in this conversation. A recalled message's attachments come back with it, so ↑ then Return sends it again as it was. The full text of a Pasted text card is sent with your message.

See an attachment large

The viewer below is new in 0.2.18.

Click an attachment that's ready, in the message box or on a sent message, and it opens large over the conversation, with nothing else on screen but a small ×. A folder doesn't open here; right-click it for Show in Finder. A PDF shows its first page, a movie plays, and pasted text opens as a page you can read.

• ← and → move between the attachments of that message.
• Right-click for Open, Show in Finder and Copy Path.
• Esc, Space or × closes it; so does a click outside a page or a movie.

The viewer doesn’t open while you're Presenting, and it closes if Presenting starts.

Commands with / and files with @

Type / at the start of a message to see the conversation's commands; mid-message, type / and a letter. When your Crew offers them, each command shows a one-line description.

Type @ and part of a file name to pick a file from the project. Picking one writes @ and its path into your message, so your agent knows which file you mean. An older Crew that doesn't offer file suggestions shows none.

Send with your message

Your message includes the attached items as well as the text you typed. The conversation shows images as cards above your message and files as file cards, so you can tell what went with that message.

The round send button is dim until there is something to send (Send · Return). While a reply is running, it queues your message instead (Queue · Return), with Stop (⌘.) beside it. With nothing typed, the button is Stop.

The mic beside the message box is Dictate: it types what you say at the cursor, using your Mac's dictation. In a conversation where you can talk to your Chief by voice, it becomes the talk button instead; see Talk by voice.

Control–Return means Send now: while a turn is running, it interrupts that turn to send the waiting messages and your current draft. It also refuses to send while a card is unfinished; send again when it is ready. See Keyboard shortcuts.