Creating the AI Environment for Thinkers and Writers

Massive update to Copilot Plus!!🔥🔥🔥

Announcing our "3 milestones" (previously in believer-exclusive preview) in the brand new v2.9.0:

Projects mode (alpha)

A new Plus mode where you can define a combo of your custom instruction, model, parameters and context as individual workspaces, powered by models with a 1M-token context window and context caching.

This is different from @vault, you can ask much more abstract questions here such as "find common patterns/most important insights"
Supports 20+ file types including PDF, EPUB, PPTX, DOCX, CSV, and many more.

(Since it's still in Alpha, the models still require your own API key, so keep an eye on your model provider's dashboard to avoid a surprise bill! The context processing is on us by our servers, we process those papers and books for you to have them ready for AI consumption.)

Composer

Edit or create notes by just chatting with Copilot. Trigger it by explicitly including @composer in your message. The AI will suggest an edit, you click Preview/Apply, and a diff view shows up for you to accept the edits by line or in bulk.

Composer supports canvas, too!

Autocomplete

Suggests the next words based on the content in your vault (toggle Allow Additional Context in Plus mode to allow more relevant context in your vault), supports most languages

• Sentence completion: suggests possible next words
• Word completion: completes partial words based on existing words in your vault

You can toggle them on or off separately, e.g. have only word completion if you find sentence completion distracting.
New Plus tab in Copilot settings

Others

• Implement chat history picker button, render Save Chat as Note conditionally when Autosave is off
• Toggle to always include current file in the context by default (Plus setting tab)
• Autocomplete settings, customizable key binding
• A new Refresh Built-in Models button below the Models table
• Claude 4 and 3.7 sonnet thinking tokens support
• Add "Force rebuild index" to the 3-dots menu at the top right of the chat input
• "Save Chat as Note" does not open the saved note automatically anymore, as requested by users
• New Chat is now a copilot command assignable with a hotkey
• Quick add for models in the API key setting page, now it grabs the list of all available models from provider for you to pick from.
• Custom Prompts Sort Strategy in Advanced settings

Troubleshoot

If you find models missing in any model table or dropdown, go to Copilot settings -> Models tab, find "Refresh Built-in Models" and click it. If it doesn't help, please report back!

Acknowledgements

This is a joint effort by the Copilot team: @wenzhengjiang @zeroliu @Emt-lin @logancyang. It's impossible to achieve without the support and awesome feedback from our great community. We have a lot more upgrades coming in our pipeline, with some massive changes to the free features as well. Please stay tuned!