# Bearly Documentation

> Sign in, start a conversation, and learn the essential controls for working with Bearly.

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## Documentation bundles

- [Documentation index](https://bearly.ai/docs.md): Complete directory with links to every guide.
- [Full documentation](https://bearly.ai/llms-full.txt): All Bearly guides in one Markdown document.

## Getting Started

- [Get started with Bearly](https://bearly.ai/docs.md): Sign in, start a conversation, and learn the essential controls for working with Bearly.
- [Have your first conversation](https://bearly.ai/docs/chats/first-chat.md): Start a Bearly chat, guide the answer, revise your request, and use the controls on each message.
- [Work with files in a chat](https://bearly.ai/docs/chats/files.md): Attach files, follow upload progress, preview results, and download files from a Bearly conversation.
- [Organize your chats](https://bearly.ai/docs/chats/organize.md): Search, rename, pin, archive, move, select, and delete Bearly conversations.
- [Ask Bearly to manage your chats](https://bearly.ai/docs/chats/manage-with-bearly.md): Find, read, create, rename, move, and delete conversations by asking Bearly in chat.

## Research & Context

- [Search the web, find images, and run Deep Research](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/web-search-deep-research.md): Find current information and visual references in chat, or plan a longer investigation that produces a sourced report.
- [Search academic papers with Scholar](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/scholar.md): Ask a research question and get an answer built on papers, with each claim cited to a passage you can open and check.
- [Look up a person with People Search](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/people-search.md): Confirm which person you mean, then get a cited brief of their public work with a source and date on every claim.
- [Research your documents](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/document-research.md): Ask focused questions across attached or project files, compare sources, and open cited passages for verification.
- [Summarize a document](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/deep-summary.md): Create a structured Deep Summary of a long document, then continue working with it in the same chat.
- [Find conversations and control memories](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/memory-search.md): Search your Bearly chat history and choose which earlier conversations a chat can use for context.
- [Work with local files](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/work-locally.md): Let Bearly read, create, edit, and run files on your computer from a folder you choose.
- [Use your computer with Bearly](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/computer-use.md): Let Bearly complete tasks in visible desktop apps while you control what it can see, do, and how long access lasts.
- [Browse beside a Bearly chat](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/browser.md): Open sites in Bearly Browser, annotate a page, or approve limited site access for a chat task.
- [Use Bearly on a web page](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/browser-extension.md): Summarize, question, or explain the page you are reading with the Bearly extension for Chrome, without leaving the tab.
- [Control Chrome from Bearly](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/chrome-control.md): Let a Bearly desktop chat read, navigate, and inspect your regular Chrome tabs, including sites you are already signed in to.
- [Find and check domain names](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/domain-research.md): Ask Bearly for domain ideas around a product, company, or theme, then check whether a specific domain is still available to register.

## Create & Transform

- [Create interactive AI artifacts with Pages](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/artifacts.md): Build, refine, reopen, and download interactive AI artifacts such as calculators, dashboards, planners, and small tools in Bearly.
- [Edit a long draft in Canvas](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/canvas.md): Turn a Bearly response into a Markdown draft, edit it directly, preview the formatting, and ask AI for focused revisions.
- [Analyze data with Code Interpreter](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/code-interpreter.md): Let Bearly run Python for calculations, data analysis, charts, file conversion, and generated files.
- [Create charts from spreadsheets](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/charts.md): Turn a spreadsheet or CSV into a KPI card, bar chart, or line chart with the source data ready to inspect and download.
- [Create and edit documents](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/document-editor.md): Use Document Editor to create, revise, and convert PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files in a Bearly chat.
- [Check grammar and clarity](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/grammar-correction.md): Review grammar, spelling, punctuation, style, vocabulary, and clarity suggestions without losing your original meaning.
- [Generate images](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/image-generation.md): Create an image from a written description, compare models, refine the prompt, and save the result.
- [Edit an image](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/image-editing.md): Change an uploaded or generated image with a written instruction, compare edits, and continue from the best result.
- [Combine images](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/image-combining.md): Select several source images, explain how their elements should relate, and create a new composite in the image gallery.
- [Create and edit videos](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/video-generation.md): Generate a short video from text or an image, request sound and format choices, and transform an existing clip.
- [Download a video](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/download-video.md): Save videos from supported public sites to a Bearly chat, follow download progress, and keep the resulting files.
- [Turn text into speech](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/text-to-speech.md): Listen to a Bearly answer or create downloadable spoken audio with the voice and delivery you want.
- [Transcribe audio and video](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/transcripts.md): Turn recordings into searchable text, follow along with playback, label speakers, and download subtitles.

## Workflows

- [Run prompts on a schedule with Routines](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/routines.md): Create a routine that runs a saved prompt on a schedule, keeps every run in its own chat, and can email or text you the result.
- [Record and transcribe meetings](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/meetings.md): Record online meetings, in-person conversations, and voice notes in Bearly, with a live transcript, speaker names, summaries, and a chat that starts from the transcript.
- [Dictate instead of typing](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/dictation.md): Turn on dictation, speak into the message box with a click or a held key, and choose what happens to the finished transcript.
- [Talk with Bearly by voice](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/voice-conversations.md): Start a live voice conversation, manage the microphone and call, and continue from the saved transcript.
- [Add workflows with Skills](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/skills.md): Install, manage, and use reusable Bearly workflows from the Skill Store or a trusted source.
- [Create reusable Prompt Templates](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/prompt-templates.md): Turn a recurring instruction into a reusable form that you can fill out and submit in any Bearly chat.
- [Compare answers with Council of Experts](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/council-of-experts.md): Ask several AI models the same question, inspect their individual answers, and use Bearly's synthesis.
- [Send email or text messages from a chat](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/send-email.md): Send formatted email or a concise text message from a Bearly chat, then confirm the result and recover from failures.
- [Connect services and MCP servers](https://bearly.ai/docs/features/connectors.md): Add a supported service or your own MCP server, then choose which chats and Routines can use its tools.

## Projects

- [Organize chats with projects](https://bearly.ai/docs/projects/overview.md): Keep related chats, files, instructions, and settings together in a Bearly project.
- [Add files to a project](https://bearly.ai/docs/projects/documents.md): Upload, search, inspect, and manage files that Bearly can use across a project's chats.
- [Set project-wide chat defaults](https://bearly.ai/docs/projects/settings.md): Choose the model, language, style, instructions, and document behavior for chats in a project.
- [Share a project with your team](https://bearly.ai/docs/projects/collaboration.md): Give a team or individual teammates Reader, Writer, or Owner access to a Bearly project.
- [Protect a project with a password](https://bearly.ai/docs/projects/encryption.md): Add, use, change, or remove password protection for a Bearly project.

## Organizations

- [Create and manage an organization](https://bearly.ai/docs/teams/overview.md): Create a Bearly organization, review its account details, rename it, leave it, or delete it when eligible.
- [Manage organization members](https://bearly.ai/docs/teams/members.md): Add people to a Bearly organization, import a roster from CSV, change member access, and remove members.
- [Manage groups and group admins](https://bearly.ai/docs/teams/groups.md): Organize departments within a Bearly organization, delegate group management, set policies, and review shared projects and usage.
- [Connect Microsoft Entra to an organization](https://bearly.ai/docs/teams/microsoft-entra.md): Let a managed Bearly organization sign in with Microsoft work or school accounts, and provision members and groups from Microsoft Entra.
- [Manage organization billing and seats](https://bearly.ai/docs/teams/billing.md): Start an organization billing account, buy and assign seats, change seat plans, and resolve payment issues.
- [Set organization policies](https://bearly.ai/docs/teams/policies.md): Set shared chat defaults, model access, feature permissions, and spending limits for members of a managed organization.
- [Review organization usage](https://bearly.ai/docs/teams/usage.md): Compare a managed organization's AI spend and calls across members, models, and recent months.
- [Distribute skills from a shared folder](https://bearly.ai/docs/teams/skill-stores.md): Register a managed organization's shared skill library and assign individual skills through organization policies.
- [Review organization activity](https://bearly.ai/docs/teams/activity.md): See who changed your organization's settings, policies, and membership, with readable before-and-after details.

## Settings & Account

- [Change your chat settings](https://bearly.ai/docs/settings/chat-settings.md): Choose how Bearly responds in one conversation, set defaults for new chats, and control the personal context shared with AI models.
- [Manage billing and review usage](https://bearly.ai/docs/account/billing-usage.md): Change your Bearly plan, review the current credit period, add a credit boost, and see monthly usage by model.
- [Cancel your Bearly subscription](https://bearly.ai/docs/account/cancel-subscription.md): Stop renewal for a Bearly subscription purchased on the web or through Apple's App Store, and confirm the cancellation date.
- [Delete your Bearly account](https://bearly.ai/docs/account/delete-account.md): Permanently delete your Bearly account, private work, credentials, and local Bearly data after reviewing subscriptions and retained billing records.

## Privacy & Security

- [Privacy and security in Bearly](https://bearly.ai/docs/privacy-security.md): Understand how private AI works in Bearly, what a model receives, and which privacy, memory, encryption, and access controls you can use.
- [Use zero-data-retention models](https://bearly.ai/docs/zero-data-retention.md): See which models run with zero data retention, restrict Bearly to those models, and understand what the setting covers.

## Changelog

- [Changelog](https://bearly.ai/docs/changelog.md): Every Bearly release since June 2024, newest first, with what changed in each one.

## Legal

- [Privacy Policy](https://bearly.ai/privacy-policy.md): Bearly AI Privacy Policy
- [Terms of Service](https://bearly.ai/terms-of-service.md): Bearly AI Terms of Service