Quick Assistant

Quick Assistant is a convenient tool provided by Cherry Studio that allows you to quickly access AI features in any application, enabling instant actions such as asking questions, translating, summarizing, and explaining.

Enable Quick Assistant

1. Open settings: Navigate to Settings → Quick Assistant(in the left menu).
2. Enable the switch: Open Enable Quick Assistant. After enabling it, the page will expand to show more options.

Quick Assistant vs. Text Selection Assistant: The two are different features.

• Quick Assistant: Invoke a mini window with a shortcut key to proactively ask questions, without relying 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 respectively in Settings → Quick Assistant and Settings → Text Selection Assistant.

Quick Assistant settings after enabling (real screenshot)

Switches visible after enabling:

• Enable Quick Assistant: Main switch
• Launch by clicking the tray icon: Left-clicking the Cherry Studio icon in the system tray directly opens Quick Assistant (enabled by default)
• Read clipboard on startup: Automatically use the clipboard content as input every time Quick Assistant is opened
• Quick Assistant model:Use assistant Follow the model selected for the current conversation assistant;Default model Use Global default fast model

1. Set shortcut keys (on another page):

   • Shortcut keys are not configured on this page; you need to go to Settings → Shortcut Keys to adjust them.
   • Windows default Ctrl + E, macOS default ⌘ + E.
   • You can customize shortcut keys to avoid conflicts or better suit your personal habits.

Use Quick Assistant

1. Open: 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 do the following:

   • Quick question: Ask the AI any question.
   • Text translation: Enter the text you want translated.
   • Content summary: Enter long text for summarization.
   • Explanation: Enter the concept or term you want explained.

     

     Quick Assistant interface diagram
3. Close: Press ESC or click anywhere outside the Quick Assistant window to close it.

When Quick Assistant model Select Default model use Global default fast model; select Use assistant After that, you can choose an existing assistant as the model for the response.

Tips and tricks

• Shortcut key conflicts: If the default shortcut key 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 that you keep exploring while using it.
• Feedback and improvements: If you encounter any problems during use or have any suggestions for improvement, please promptly to the Cherry Studio team provide feedback.

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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 the official channels provided there.