Searching Your Knowledge

Ask questions in natural language

Type a question in the chat area of your workspace. Elephas uses semantic search to find the most relevant passages across all your indexed documents, then sends those passages to your configured AI provider to generate an answer.

How semantic search works

Unlike keyword search, semantic search understands meaning. If you ask "What were the Q3 revenue numbers?", Elephas finds passages about quarterly revenue even if they do not contain the exact words "Q3 revenue."

Citations

Every response includes citations pointing to the source documents and passages. Click a citation to open the original file and jump to the relevant section. This lets you verify the answer against your sources.

Tips for better results

• Be specific. "What is the cancellation policy for enterprise contracts?" works better than "Tell me about contracts."
• If you get a vague answer, try rephrasing your question or adding more context
• For broad topics, ask follow-up questions to drill into specific areas

Read a book (without indexing it)

Beyond searching your own files, Elephas has a Read a book utility (Elephas → Utils → Read a book): enter a book title and choose Summary or Quotes to get key points or notable quotes for that book. You can feed that output into Smart Write as an outline — for example, to draft a blog post based on a book.