Bearly Manual
This manual explains how to do anything in Bearly, from your first chat to workflows that chain research, data, media, agents, and automation. Each capability says when to use it, what it needs, what it produces, and what it combines with, and each recipe says why its steps work together, so you can adapt it to your own work.
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I want to…
Section titled “I want to…”| Goal | Start here |
|---|---|
| Ask a question and get current answers with sources | Research |
| Get a long, cited research report on a topic | Research → Deep Research |
| Find and quote academic papers | Research → Scholar |
| Choose the one product worth buying | Research → Best Pick |
| Get the point of a YouTube video, or check its claims | Videos and posts |
| Work with a PDF, document, or spreadsheet | Files and documents |
| Analyze data or make a chart | Data and code |
| Build a page, dashboard, or small tool and share a link | Pages and Canvas |
| Make an image, a video, a voiceover, or a transcript | Images, video, and audio |
| Record a meeting and use what was said | Meetings |
| Dictate, or talk to Bearly out loud | Talk to Bearly |
| Let Bearly use a browser, a folder of files, or my screen | Browser and computer |
| Connect Notion, Linear, GitHub, or my own server | Connectors and skills |
| Run something every morning without asking | Routines |
| Get results by email or text | Email and text |
| Compare models, or ask several at once | Choose and compare models |
| Encrypt chats end to end, or use only zero-retention models | Privacy and security |
| Find, organize, share, or export chats | Organize, find, and share |
| Set a tone, language, or instructions for every chat | Tune a chat |
| Share files and instructions across chats or with people | Projects |
| Set up Bearly for a company | Organizations |
| Understand plans, credits, and limits | Plans, credits, and limits |
| Call Bearly from code or another agent | API and agents |
| Combine features in a way I haven’t seen | Building blocks |
| Fix something that isn’t working | Troubleshooting |
Recipes
Section titled “Recipes”Each recipe chains several capabilities and explains the hand-off between them:
- Research and analysis
- Writing, content, and media
- Founders, sales, and operations
- Automation and agents
- Everyday life
- Teams and projects
For AI assistants and agents
Section titled “For AI assistants and agents”This manual is written to be read by software as well as people. Replace the trailing slash of any page address with .md for clean Markdown, start at /manual.md for the directory, or read /manual-full.txt for everything in one file. Guide for AI assistants explains how to use it to help someone, and API and agents covers programmatic access.
Keeping it accurate
Section titled “Keeping it accurate”The manual is written from the current app and updated as features ship. The shorter feature guides cover single features, and the changelog lists every release. If something in the app looks different from what you read here, the app is right; tell us with Give Feedback in the account menu, or at support@bearly.ai.