When Springle asks, just click.
Whenever Springle needs something from you, its question comes with the answers as buttons. Click one, press its number, say it, or type your own.
When Springle has to ask you something, like which Sarah you mean, which file, or what time, you don’t have to work out what to type. The answers are right there as buttons.
- 1An amber tag says it’s waiting for you. Which one? or Your pick.
- 2One plain question.
- 3The answer Springle suggests is the white one, with the reason beside it.
- 4return picks the suggested answer.
- 5The others take their number: 2, 3.
Four ways to answer
- Click an answer.
- Press a key with the typing box empty: return for the white one, or the number on the row.
- Say it: "the second one", "Sarah Patel" or "the WhatsApp one". The row you meant lights up green.
- Type your own words in the box. Nobody is stuck with only the offered answers.
Springle only suggests an answer when it has a reason, and it shows that reason ("Most recent", "Your Mac"). When there’s no good reason, no answer is white, and you just pick.
Should I do it, or show you the way?
In Guide me, Springle points and you click. When you ask for something there’s nothing to point at for, like "go to cnn", Springle asks with two buttons instead of explaining modes:
- 1Do it for me does this one thing for you. Your next request is guided again.
- 2Show me how walks you through it, one step at a time.
- 3Tick this and Springle won’t ask again for this kind of thing.
If you tick Just do it next time I ask to open a site, Springle opens sites for you from then on, even in Guide me. To change your mind, open Settings, then Helping, and switch off Open websites for me (or Open apps for me).
Picking a few
When the answer is a list, like tabs to close, photos to send or emails to archive, Springle ticks its best guess. Untick anything you want to keep. The button counts what will happen.
- 1Unticked: this one stays.
- 2Ticked: this one goes. Click a row to change it.
- 3The button says exactly what will happen.
For something slow or hard to undo, your answer waits about five seconds with Change beside it before Springle starts, so a slip of the mouse is easy to fix.
A few details before it starts
A longer task can ask for everything it needs at once, already filled in from what Springle knows about you. Usually one return does it.
- 1Filled in from what you usually pick, and it says why.
- 2Click a chip to change it.
- 3Then start.
Springle never asks what it can find out for itself, like which chip your Mac has, and it asks at most three details at a time.
Short questions stay out of your way
A question with short answers can wait under the notch as one amber line with its answers as pills, instead of opening the card over your app.
- 1The question, in amber.
- 2The answers. Click one.
If you fold the card while a question is waiting, the island keeps an amber chip that says how many answers there are. Click it to come back. With the typing box empty, esc folds the question away too.
- 1Pick one · 2: a question with two answers is waiting.
Yes and No say what they do
When Springle offers to do something, its buttons are named for the action, like Open it and Not now, rather than just Yes and No. return and esc still answer them.
- 1Open it answers yes.
- 2Not now answers no.
Picking isn’t saying yes to anything risky. If you pick "Sarah Chen", Springle still shows the message and asks before it’s sent. Sending, paying and deleting keep their own checks. See Springle asks first.
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