Your photos, documents and past conversations

One gallery holds every picture and video you’ve kept in Qbit. The ones she made for you, the ones you shared in a question, and the ones you uploaded yourself, all together, newest first.

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1. Open qbit.app/?page=photos while you’re signed in.
2. Your gallery loads with your saved photos and videos, newest first.
3. Tap “Your folders” at the top to open the folder list, then tap Main, a folder, or All to narrow the gallery right where you are.
4. Inside a real folder you also get a breadcrumb across the top and rows for its subfolders, so you can go deeper without leaving the page.
5. Tap “← Back to Home” at the bottom when you’re done.

• Bookmark the address once and it’s always a tap away.
• Every folder page has its own Photos section showing the same tiles, so that’s a second way in.
• The folder filter changes the gallery in place, so you stay right on the page.

Good to know: My Photos lives at its own address for now, qbit.app/?page=photos, so it won’t show up as a menu row or a tab. Your folder pages are the other way in.

Pop a picture from your phone or computer straight into My Photos, and pick the folder it lands in before you do. Every upload gets a quick safety check on the way in.

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1. Open the My Photos page and pick the folder you want the photo to land in. Main and All both save it unfiled, which means Main.
2. Tap the Upload pill. Hover it on a computer, or press and hold it on a phone, and it tells you exactly where the photo will land, for example “Upload to Health”.
3. Choose a JPG, PNG, GIF or WebP file up to 10MB.
4. Keep an eye on the little status line. It says “Uploading…”, then “Reviewing…” while the safety check runs, then your gallery refreshes with the new tile.
5. On a computer you can skip all that and drag a picture file from your desktop onto the page.

• Inside a folder, and on Main, the Upload pill names the destination, for example “Upload to Health”, so you can check where a picture will land before you pick it.
• On a laptop you can drop a picture file straight onto the page, one at a time, so just drop them one by one.

Good to know: On a child’s account, the Upload pill appears once “Photos & images” is switched on for that child under My Kids.

Every saved picture carries the same four little buttons underneath, always in the same order. File it, send it, download it, or take it out of your gallery.

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1. Find the tile you want in My Photos, or in a folder page’s Photos section.
2. Folder icon: opens a folder picker. Pick a folder and the photo moves there, with a small message confirming it: “Added to…”.
3. Share icon: hands the picture to your phone or computer’s own share panel, so you can text it or email it.
4. Download icon: saves the original file to your device.
5. Trash icon: asks “Remove this from your Photos?” and takes it out of the gallery once you confirm.

• The order’s the same on every tile, so your thumb learns it fast.
• Videos keep their own play controls right on the tile instead of opening the big viewer.

Good to know: Removing a photo tidies your Photos gallery only. The original stays wherever it was first created or shared, and the confirmation says so.

Tiles are perfect for finding things. For actually looking, tap any saved picture and it fills the whole screen.

1. Tap the picture itself, not one of the small buttons underneath it.
2. The image opens large, over the whole screen.
3. Tap the × in the corner, tap the dark background around the picture, or press Escape on a keyboard to close it.

• Tapping the dark background is the quickest way out on a phone.
• Videos play right where they are, with their normal controls, so this big viewer is all about images.

There’s a message box sitting right on the Photos page, so you can ask Qbit something without going anywhere else. Open a folder first and she’ll answer about that folder’s contents.

1. Open My Photos, and tap into a folder if you want the question to be about that folder.
2. Look at the box under the folder row. The grey placeholder text changes to name what you’re asking about, for example “Ask about Health…”.
3. Type your question, then press Enter or tap the arrow.
4. Qbit opens a fresh conversation, already pointed at that folder.

• The placeholder tells you what she’ll look at, so give it a glance before you send.
• Great for things like which pictures you kept from a trip, or what you filed in a folder last month.

Good to know: With the box empty, you may see a waveform where the arrow usually sits. That one opens Voice Mode, which is for adults, so type your question first and send with the arrow.

Every file you upload to Qbit sits in My Documents, ready for her to read back to you whenever you ask. She pulls just the relevant bits into each answer, and your files are never used to train an AI model.

1. Open the slide menu with the three lines, then tap “My Profile”.
2. Tap the “My Documents” card at the top. The little badge on it shows how many documents you have.
3. Your documents are listed newest first, with each file’s size and when you added it.
4. Tap “Your folders” to narrow the list to Main, a single folder, or All.
5. Tap “Show More” at the bottom to reveal ten more rows at a time.

• You can also head straight there with qbit.app/?page=knowledge.
• Folders are the main way in, so a document filed into Health shows up on the Health folder page too.

Good to know: Brand new account? The “Your folders” row appears the moment you have your first document or folder.

One sheet holds every way of getting a file into Qbit, and you get to choose where it lands before you even pick it. Best of all, uploading is free at the moment.

1. On My Documents, tap the Upload pill.
2. In the sheet that slides up, tap the “Save to” row to choose the folder it should land in. It starts on whichever folder you were looking at, and “+ New folder” sits at the bottom of that list.
3. Tap “Choose from your device” for a normal file browser, or “Photos on this device” to go straight to your phone’s photo library.
4. Pick one file, or several at once.
5. The sheet closes and your new rows appear right away with a status pill. It reads Uploading, then Reading and indexing, then disappears once the file’s ready to use.

• On a computer you can drag files anywhere onto the page, or onto the “Or drag files here” zone inside the sheet. That zone shows up on computers, since phones and tablets aren’t really a dragging crowd.
• Choosing the folder first saves you filing it afterwards.

Good to know: Uploads are free right now, up to 25MB each. Qbit happily takes PDF, DOCX, TXT, MD, CSV, TSV, XLSX, XLS, PPTX and JPG, PNG, GIF or WebP. Video files aren’t accepted just yet.

If your files live in Google Drive, you can bring them straight in without downloading anything first. Pick them in Google’s own list and they become ordinary Qbit documents, without the file ever passing through your browser.

1. Connect Google Drive first under My Profile, then “Connected Apps”.
2. On My Documents, tap Upload, then “Import from Google Drive”.
3. Google’s own picker opens as a list. Select one file or several.
4. Qbit says “Importing from Google Drive…”, then “Imported. Qbit is reading it now.” and your new rows appear in the list.

• Imported files work just like anything else you upload, so you can file them, print them or ask about them.
• Qbit checks your Drive connection every time you open My Documents, so the row shows up as soon as you connect.

Good to know: Using the installed Qbit app on an iPhone or iPad? Open qbit.app in Safari, or hop on a computer, for Drive imports. Google’s picker doesn’t run inside the app on Apple devices, and Qbit will let you know if you try.

Tap a document row to read the file itself. The small icons along the bottom of the row let you file it, send the real file to someone, print it, or delete it.

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1. Tap anywhere on a ready row, away from the icons, and the document opens in a new tab so you can read it.
2. Folder icon: pick a folder to move the document into.
3. Share icon: hands the actual file to your device’s share panel, so Messages, Mail or AirDrop. Your document stays private, with no public link created.
4. Printer icon: prints it. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF and OpenDocument files are turned into a PDF on our side first, so the print option really appears. The button shows a busy state and lets you know the very first conversion can take a moment.
5. Download icon: gives you back the original file.
6. Trash icon: deletes the file, its index and every piece of it in one go.

• If a document didn’t read properly, you’ll see a Retry button instead of the icons. Retry runs the reading step again on the file already stored, so there’s no need to delete and upload it again.
• On an iPhone, printing goes through the share panel, because iOS can’t print an embedded page directly.

Good to know: The icons show up once a document is ready, right after Uploading and Reading and indexing finish.

On a laptop or desktop, filing is as quick as picking a row up and putting it down. Drop a document into a folder, or between two others to set your own order, and Qbit remembers it.

1. Press and hold a document row, then drag it.
2. Drop it on a folder row, or on one of the crumbs in the breadcrumb across the top, to file it there.
3. Or hover over the top half or the bottom half of another row. A line appears to show where it’ll go, and dropping puts the document in that spot.
4. Your order sticks in every view except Recents, which is always newest first by nature.

• Dropping onto a breadcrumb crumb is the fastest way to move something back up a level.
• Dragging is a mouse and trackpad thing. On a phone or tablet, the folder icon on the row does the same job in two taps.

At the bottom of My Documents you’ll find a short, plain English summary of the promises Qbit makes about your files. Four lines, no small print.

1. Scroll to the bottom of My Documents.
2. Tap the heading that reads “How your files are protected”. It opens right there on the page.
3. Read the four rows: only you can ask about your documents, they’re encrypted where they’re stored and never used to train a model, Qbit pulls only the relevant bits into each answer, and the trash icon removes the file, its index and every piece of it.

• Worth a quick read before you upload anything personal, so you know exactly how your files are looked after.

The same message box from the Photos page lives here too. Ask from the top level and she’ll answer about My Documents. Ask from inside a folder and she’ll use what’s filed there.

1. Open My Documents, and tap into a folder if you want to narrow things down.
2. Type into the box under the Upload row. The grey placeholder names exactly what you’re asking about.
3. Press Enter, or tap the arrow. A fresh conversation opens, already pointed at that folder.

• Lovely for questions across several files at once, like what your three school letters all have in common.
• Children have this too, and every question a child asks still goes through the child answer checks.

Good to know: With the box empty, you may see a waveform where the arrow usually sits. That one opens Voice Mode, which is for adults, so type your question first and send with the arrow.

Recents is your running list of everything you’ve asked Qbit, newest first. A back and forth conversation tucks into a single card that tells you how many messages it holds, and one tap opens the whole thread again.

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1. Tap “Recents” in the bottom tab bar.
2. Scroll the list. Each card shows the first question, and either the time or something like “4 messages · 2h ago”.
3. Tap a card to reopen it. A conversation card brings back the entire thread, so you can carry straight on, even from a different device.
4. Tap “Show More” at the bottom to reveal ten more.
5. Tap “← Back” at the top to return to wherever you came from.

• There are two other ways in: the slide menu has a Recents row with a “See all”, and there’s a Recents card under Metrics & Advanced Settings.
• Since the whole thread comes back, you can start something on your phone at the school gate and finish it on your laptop later.

Good to know: Recents holds your 100 most recent turns. And “← Back” hops over the conversation you just left, so you won’t bounce straight back into it.

You know you asked her something, just not when. Type a word or two and Recents narrows down as you go, or show only the pictures, videos or audio you asked for.

1. Open Recents.
2. Type into the “Search your recents...” box docked at the bottom of the screen. The list narrows as you type.
3. Or tap one of the chips across the top: All, Text, Image, Video or Audio, to see only that kind of answer.
4. Either one takes the list back to the first ten results, so start from the top.

• The search box sits right down by your thumb, which makes it quick on a phone.
• The Image chip is the fastest way back to something Qbit drew for you.

Good to know: Search looks at the words of your question, so search for what you asked rather than what she said. If your app language isn’t English and the Text, Image, Video or Audio chips come back empty, the All chip always has everything.

Any conversation you’ve filed wears its folder’s name, in that folder’s colour, right at the front of the card. One glance tells you a question belongs to Health, or to Work.

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1. File a conversation using the folder icon on its card.
2. Go back to Recents.
3. The card now leads with a small coloured folder tag, sitting just before the question text.

• Colour does a lot of the work here. Give it a week and you’ll spot your folders without reading a word.
• Conversations with no tag are unfiled, which is what Main means.

Good to know: Recents shows everything, so the tag is your folder cue on this page. Arriving from a folder page’s “See all” starts you filtered to that folder, and a regular visit shows everything again.

Any past conversation can become a link you send, a PDF you keep, or a printout for the fridge. The icons live along the bottom of each card.

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1. Share icon: creates a qbit.app link and opens the share panel, with Email, Gmail, Messages, Copy and More. Whoever you send it to can read the question and the answer, even without a Qbit account.
2. Download icon: builds a PDF of the conversation and saves it. On a multi message card you get the whole transcript.
3. Printer icon: opens your printer dialog with a clean, tidy version, which is also how you choose Save as PDF from your browser.
4. Thumbs up and thumbs down on the left rate her answer, and your rating sticks.

• The first PDF you download in a session takes a beat longer while the PDF part loads. After that, they’re quick.
• Printing is lovely for a recipe or a homework explanation.

Good to know: Share links are public, so anyone with the link can open it. A child can create one while “Allow sharing links” is switched on for them, which it is by default. With it off, their Share button sends plain text instead.

Take out a single question, a whole back and forth thread, or clear the lot. It’s your history, and you get the final say.

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1. To delete one, tap the trash icon on its card and confirm. It disappears straight away.
2. On a conversation card holding several messages, the trash takes the whole thread, and the confirmation tells you how many messages that is.
3. To clear everything, scroll right to the bottom of Recents and tap “Delete recent conversations”, then confirm the warning.

• The full clear sits below the list on purpose, well out of thumb range, so it only happens when you mean it.

Good to know: Both kinds of delete are permanent, and the confirmation tells you so before anything goes.

Your past conversations are always one tap away. There’s a little clock pill sitting right under the message box.

1. Look at the row of pills just under the message box, on the Home page or in a conversation.
2. Tap the clock pill on the right, labelled Recents.
3. Your list of past conversations opens.

• Handy mid conversation, when you want to check what she told you last week without losing your place.

Good to know: Inside a Storytime conversation, this same pill becomes “Recent stories” and takes your child back to their stories.