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# Quick Assistant

Quick Assistant is a convenient tool provided by Cherry Studio, allowing you to quickly access AI features in any application, enabling instant question-asking, translation, summarization, and explanation.

### Enable Quick Assistant

1. **Open Settings:** Go to \[Settings] → \[Quick Assistant] (in the left menu).
2. **Enable the switch:** Turn on \[Enable Quick Assistant]. Once enabled, more options will appear on the page.

{% hint style="info" %}
**Quick Assistant vs Selection Assistant**: They are two different features.

* **Quick Assistant**: Invoke a mini window via a shortcut key to proactively ask questions, without depending on the content currently selected.
* **Text selection assistant**: After selecting text in any app, use the toolbar to translate/explain/rewrite the selected text.
* The configuration entries are \[Settings] → \[Quick Assistant] and \[Settings] → \[Selection Assistant], respectively.
  {% endhint %}

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Switches visible after enabling:

* **Enable Quick Assistant**: Main switch
* **Launch by clicking the tray icon**: Left-click the Cherry Studio icon in the system tray to directly invoke Quick Assistant (enabled by default)
* **Read clipboard on startup**: Automatically use clipboard content as input each time Quick Assistant is invoked
* **Quick Assistant model**:\[Use Assistant] follows the model of the selected assistant; \[Default Model] uses [the global default fast model](/docs/en-us/pre-basic/settings/default-models.md)

3. **Set shortcut keys (on another page):**
   * Shortcut keys are not configured on this page; you need to adjust them under \[Settings] → \[Shortcut Keys].
   * Windows default <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>E</kbd>, macOS default <kbd>⌘</kbd> + <kbd>E</kbd>.
   * You can customize shortcut keys to avoid conflicts or better match personal habits.

### Using Quick Assistant

1. **Invoke:** In any application, press the shortcut key you set (or the default shortcut key) to open Quick Assistant.
2. **Interaction:** In the Quick Assistant window, you can directly perform the following actions:
   * **Quick question:** Ask AI any question.
   * **Text translation:** Enter the text to be translated.
   * **Content summarization:** Enter long text to summarize.
   * **Explanation:** Enter the concept or term that needs explanation.

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3. **Close:** Press <kbd>ESC</kbd> key or click anywhere outside the Quick Assistant window to close it.

{% hint style="info" %}
Used when \[Quick Assistant Model] is set to \[Default Model] [the global default fast model](/docs/en-us/pre-basic/settings/default-models.md); after selecting \[Use Assistant], you can specify an existing assistant as the response model.
{% endhint %}

### Tips and tricks

* **Shortcut conflict:** If the default shortcut conflicts with other applications, please change it.
* **Explore more features:** In addition to the features mentioned in the documentation, Quick Assistant may also support other operations, such as code generation and style conversion. We recommend exploring it as you use it.
* **Feedback and improvement:** If you encounter any problems during use or have any suggestions for improvement, please promptly send feedback to the Cherry Studio team [Feedback](/docs/en-us/question-contact/suggestions.md).

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### Get help and submit feedback

If you encounter any questions, bugs, or have suggestions for feature improvements during configuration or use, please refer to [Feedback and Suggestions](/docs/en-us/question-contact/suggestions.md) for the official channels provided.


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