Snippets

Snippets let you carry an exact passage from a Narrova conversation into your next request without copying, pasting, or retyping it. Select the text you want, choose Add for follow-up, and Narrova sends that selected context before your next message.

Use Snippets when a response gives you several useful options and you want to continue with only some of them.

What Snippets Are

A Snippet is user-selected context for the next turn. It is not a Note, a saved document, or a permanent Story Context file. It is a precise piece of the current conversation that you want Narrova to treat as important for the next request.

You can select text from anywhere visible in the conversation, not just the most recent Narrova response. This is useful when an older answer, an earlier user request, or a prior comparison contains the exact language you want to bring forward.

When you send the next message, Narrova receives the Snippet first, then receives your typed request. This gives Narrova the exact material you selected without forcing the whole previous response to dominate the follow-up.

The same selection menu can also save highlighted response text as a Note. Choose Save as Note when the selected passage should be kept for later instead of carried into the next request.

Writing use: Ask Narrova for a wide brainstorming pass, select only the ideas that still feel alive, then use those Snippets to guide the next iteration.

Why It Matters

Narrova often gives you more than one useful direction: alternate loglines, possible reveals, character motives, scene solutions, thematic readings, or Storybeat options. A normal follow-up like "use the second and fourth ideas" can work, but it depends on the model interpreting the reference correctly.

Snippets remove that ambiguity. You choose the exact text Narrova should reinforce, and the composer shows a small pill such as 1 snippet so you can confirm the selected context is attached before you send.

TIP

Snippets are best for selective iteration. Use them when you want to narrow a larger response into a smaller working set.

Use The Selection Menu

Location: Narrova -> Conversation.

1. Select text anywhere in the visible conversation.
2. Use the small selection menu that appears beside the highlighted text.
3. Choose Add for follow-up to attach the selection to the composer.
4. Choose Save as Note to save only the highlighted passage as a Note.

Outcome for Add for follow-up: Narrova uses the selected passage as user-selected context for the next response.

Validation: The composer shows a pill such as 1 snippet before you send, and the sent message appears in the conversation with the selected context attached above your request.

Outcome for Save as Note: Narrova creates a Note from the selected passage, links it back to the source response, and opens the Note so you can add your own thoughts. The Note keeps only the highlighted text as its saved response text; it does not copy the whole Narrova answer.

Review Or Remove Snippets

Click the Snippet pill above the composer to review the selected text before sending. The modal shows the full Snippet so you can confirm it is the passage you meant to carry forward.

On desktop, hover the pill to reveal the X control and remove a single Snippet quickly. On mobile, tap the pill and remove the Snippet from the review modal.

IMPORTANT

Snippets are attached to the pending composer request. Remove a Snippet before sending if you do not want Narrova to use that text in the next answer.

Common Workflows

Brainstorm, Select, Iterate

Ask Narrova for a list of possibilities, such as:

• alternate endings
• Relationship Story tensions
• Main Character blind spots
• scene reversals
• opening image ideas
• possible Signpost expressions

Select the few entries you want to pursue, add them as Snippets, then ask Narrova to combine, compare, deepen, or rewrite around those selections.

Example follow-up:

Use the selected context as the only directions worth keeping. Combine them into three sharper versions of the scene premise.

Preserve Exact Wording

Use Snippets when the exact phrase matters. This is useful for loglines, theme statements, rules of a world, character vows, dialogue options, or any passage where a paraphrase would weaken the next step.

Example follow-up:

Keep the selected wording intact, but build the surrounding scene outline around it.

Narrow A Long Response

If Narrova gives you a dense analysis, select the paragraphs that match your intent and ignore the rest. The next request can then focus on that smaller set.

Example follow-up:

Treat the selected paragraphs as the working diagnosis. Give me the next three Storybeat decisions that follow from them.

Snippets, Notes, And Context

Use the right capture tool for the job:

• Snippets carry selected text into the next request.
• Notes save a response, selected passage, or idea so you can return to it later.
• Story Context stores durable story-world memory.
• Storyform Context stores structure-specific memory for one Storyform.

Snippets are intentionally lighter than Notes and Context. They help you continue the current line of thought without turning every useful phrase into permanent memory.

Use Save as Note from the selection menu when a highlighted passage is worth preserving but should not steer the very next turn. The Note stays connected to the original response for navigation, while its saved response text is the highlighted selection.

Downloads

When a conversation includes Snippets, Markdown and PDF downloads show them as titled quote blocks above the related user request. This makes the exported conversation readable: the request stays visible, and the selected context that shaped it is clearly separated.

Common Mistakes

Selecting too much: If you select an entire long response, the next turn may become less focused. Select only the sentences or bullets that matter.

Using Snippets as permanent memory: A Snippet is for the next request. If the idea should guide future conversations, save it as a Note or add it to Story or Storyform Context.

Forgetting to remove stale Snippets: If your next instruction changes direction, remove the pill before sending.

Writing use: After every broad Narrova answer, ask yourself, "Which exact parts do I want to continue?" Select those parts as Snippets, then write the next instruction around them.