AI Personas

A persona is a saved set of instructions that changes how the AI answers — its role, its structure, its voice. The expert prompting is baked in, so a plain question gets an expert answer. Personas never change where facts come from: the scope picker still decides that, citations still work, and the grounding rules always win.

Choosing one

Click the ✦ Persona chip beside the scope picker in the AI drawer and pick from the built-ins — thirteen of them, each with its own starter suggestions:

• 🧑‍🏫 Explain It Simply — plain language, one idea at a time, ends with the takeaway.
• 🔬 Research Analyst — the answer up front, then evidence, contradictions, and gaps.
• ✍️ Writing Partner — turns rough notes into clean prose, in your own voice.
• 😈 Devil's Advocate — stress-tests your idea, using your own notes as ammunition.
• 🎯 Just the Answer — three sentences or fewer, no preamble, from your fastest model.
• 🎓 The Professor — the full masterclass, by far the most detailed answer, from your deepest model.
• 🧭 Socratic Guide — moves your own thinking forward with sharp questions.
• 🪶 Line Editor — tightens your prose and explains each change.
• 📅 Action Planner — concrete next steps, ordered, with “START HERE” marked.
• ⚖️ The Judge — both sides steel-manned, then a real verdict.
• 🦆 Rubber Duck — restates your problem sharper; helps you untangle it yourself.
• 📖 The Storyteller — explains through story and analogy, accurately.
• 💡 Brainstorming — floods you with ideas in three bands, obvious to wild, then stars the best three.

A persona lasts one conversation: + New returns to the plain assistant, so yesterday's Devil's Advocate never colors today's answers. Each answer is tagged with the persona that wrote it, and ⇄ Second opinion under any answer re-asks the same question as a different persona — the fastest way to feel what they do.

Personas know their scope

Each built-in carries scope-tuned instructions: on My wiki the Devil's Advocate quotes the places your own notes undercut the idea, while on Anything it argues from base rates and counterexamples at full strength. You never see this switching — you just pick the persona.

Make your own

Manage personas… (at the bottom of the picker) creates, edits, and deletes your own. The editor gives you a scaffold — role, goal, rules, tone — plus optional per-scope variants, your own starter suggestions, and a model pairing so a persona can always answer from a specific installed model. Editing a built-in opens an editable copy, so you can see exactly how they're written. Best of all: ✦ Draft the instructions with AI — describe the persona in a sentence and the local model writes the instructions, the wiki-grounded variant, and six starter suggestions for you.

Voices on the AI tools

Edit with AI and Synthesize notes each have a compact ✦ Voice menu — the same personas, applied to rewriting and synthesis. A ✍️ Writing Partner synthesis reads very differently from a 🔬 Research Analyst one; the sources and citations stay identical.

Answers you keep stay honest

When you save an answer as a page, it notes which persona wrote it — so future-you knows the 😈 Devil's Advocate was doing the talking.