Write and send

The message box, attachments, mentions and commands, voice, the model picker, the queue, plans and questions, edit and rewind.

• The message box

  Type and send messages in DataMind Oda: how Enter and Shift+Enter behave, what the box's controls do, and where your drafts and failed sends go.

• Start a new chat

  Start a new chat: the New chat row, the blank New Session row, and which workspace a new chat opens in.

• Attach files and images to a message

  Attach images and files to a message, know the size and count limits, and see how Oda stores, normalises and reuses them.

• Attachments in model requests

  How files and images in a message reach the model, the image budgets one request must fit, and what happens when a model cannot take them.

• Mention files, folders and chats

  Point Oda at a file, folder or earlier chat with @, see how suggestions are found and which folders they skip, and manage the reference chips in your message.

• Reference other chats

  Point Oda at an earlier chat in your message and let it work from a read-only snapshot of that chat's work.

• Slash commands and references

  Type / or use the + control to run a command or skill from the menu, confirm choices, read command results, and point Oda at files, folders, sessions and subagents with @.

• Voice input

  Dictate into the message box: record, stop and insert text, cancel cleanly, and know where your audio is processed.

• Set up voice input

  Prepare the speech models voice input needs, choose the recognition service and language in the Voice input plugin's details, and fix download problems.

• The model picker

  Choose the model and reasoning effort for a chat with the picker or /model, see what is saved for new chats, and handle a model that is no longer offered.

• Queue, steer and stop

  Send or stop a message; when Oda is busy, choose whether your message waits in the queue or steers the running task, manage waiting messages and see what Stop keeps.

• Edit, rewind and retry a message

  Change an earlier message, rewind a chat to redo from a prompt, or retry the last answer as a new version, and move between the versions of a chat.

• Rewind and restore files

  Go back to an earlier message, see which files can be restored, and understand what a restore changes and what it never touches.

• Plan mode

  Use plan mode to agree on the approach before Oda changes anything: how /plan works, when a switch takes effect, the Plan review card and what plan mode does not enforce.

• Plan review

  Read Oda's plans: the plan card in the chat, the review in the side panel, and what happens when a plan preview expires.

• Answer Oda's questions

  Reply to the questions Oda asks during a task, read the record each set leaves in the chat, and see what happens when a question is skipped, cancelled or stopped.