Comment on results

A comment points at the exact part of a result you mean: a sentence in a report, a chart in a PDF, a button on a web page or an area of a map. CLIO sends each comment with what lies under it, so you do not have to describe where it is.

Version note

Comments on documents, figures and web pages need CLIO v0.9.6.1 or later. If your app looks different, check features and versions.

Comment on a file

1. Open the file from Files or from its card in the conversation, and choose Comment in the viewer’s toolbar.

2. Choose how to mark it with Select, at the lower right of the viewer:

   • Text: select words in a document, a PDF or an answer.
   • Region: drag a box over a figure, a PDF page or a web page.
   • Element: on an SVG figure or a web page, point at a part and click it.

3. Write your comment in the box that opens beside the mark, and choose Done. Each mark gets a label, S1, S2 and so on, and stays drawn where you made it. The list beside Select shows them all.

4. Choose Send (for example Send 2 comments) to send every comment at once.

A text comment on a report: the quote, the comment and Send to agent. The controls at the lower right show two marks ready to send. Click to enlarge.

You can mix modes on one file. Here two sentences and the chart on a PDF page are marked in one session:

Three comments on one PDF: two text marks and a region over the chart, sent together. Click to enlarge.

What CLIO receives

Each comment reaches CLIO as a short entry with its label: the words you selected and the text around them, or, for a region, an image of the page with every mark drawn on it and a close-up of the area. For a Word, PowerPoint or Excel file, the entry names the paragraph, slide shape or cells. For a figure CLIO registered with the script that drew it, it names that script, so the change goes into the script, not the image.

Comments on a saved result become threads on that version. CLIO’s answer is kept on each comment, and so is the version it made. When the file changes, each thread says whether the part you marked is still there, Moved to version 2 or Outdated. Open the threads from Comments in the viewer’s more menu (the three dots).

The sent comment appears in the conversation, and CLIO starts on it. Click to enlarge.

To keep a comment for yourself, turn off Send to agent in its box. It is saved as a note and starts nothing.

With Send to agent off, the comment is kept as a note. Click to enlarge.

Comment on a web page, an answer or a chart

The same controls work in the browser, on CLIO’s answers and on the charts and maps in the conversation. These comments are added to your next message, with Add 2 marks to message, instead of becoming threads on a file.

An element picked on a web page. CLIO receives it by its role and name, so it can act on that exact element. Click to enlarge.

A region on a map: CLIO receives the box, the area it covers and the points inside it. Click to enlarge.

On a phone

The controls fit a phone screen, and you can drag a region with your finger.

A region drawn by touch at phone width. Click to enlarge.

Note

HTML files open in the browser, where their scripts and libraries run. Comment on them there.

To comment on a LaTeX paper’s source or its PDF, see Write a paper.