Enable users to keep temporary chats on without having to manually click it on for every use.
This option should be available on the website and all the apps on the various platforms. It should especially remember one’s preference when using the keybinded mini-gpt window that one pops up (option + space by default) on MacOS, as I would intuit this would be the most likely scenario in which one would not want to clog their history with “throwaway chats.”
Maybe this would be feature bloat but perhaps consider separate state for that mini-window and the main window, but this is just a bonus or idea.
Thank you.
On the desktop app, when one hovers over the “Open in Companion Chat” button (see image below) in the top right of the chat interface, perhaps for improved UX it should display your bound keybind after a short hover. Other buttons already do this in the companion chat itself once you have content in it e.g. Open in Main Window (⌘O) and New Chat (⌘N).
Hovering over this for some short while would reveal a small text window that says “⌥Space” by default, otherwise whatever one changed it to in settings.
The bug or problem
Once a user inputs at least one prompt into the companion chat and content appears, two buttons are visible in the top right corner of the chat-box: the Open in Main Window (⌘O) and New Chat (⌘N) buttons (see image below). The bolded are also what each button says respectively when hovering over them for a short while. However, if the companion chat is not in main focus (i.e. it is visible to the user but not “clicked in” or “focused” on MacOS’ window manager), there is still visible feedback on hover to each, but the respective text (that I have bolded) never shows up.
Notes as a user
As a user, it appears my first intuition to hover over one of these buttons to learn the keybind or extra information was squashed because nothing ever showed up – reflecting back after the fact, it’s likely then the companion app wasn’t in focus for me. It’s pretty common to not have the companion app in focus, especially since it has unique precedence on the screen despite focusing other windows. It was only until recently when writing a suggestion on the forums to make these buttons show information such as keybinds when hovering over them for a short while did I realize that they actually do – just only when the window is in focus. Since I already get hover feedback without having the companion window in focus (i.e. the buttons instantly receive a grey background on hover regardless of focus-state), I was further mislead into thinking there was no hover information. This was frustrating because I often forgot the Open In Main Window keybind, and sometimes I tried hovering anyways out of common expectation/muscle memory, but it seems something about my manner of use causes me to do this with the window constantly out of focus.
Thank you.