Ask Markdrop

Ask Markdrop is the box at the top of your home, My files. Ask a question in plain words and Markdrop answers from everything you can open: meetings and their transcripts, documents, pages, files and Guides. Each answer cites where it came from, so you can check it in one tap.

Type a question and press Enter (Shift+Enter starts a new line). For example:

• "When do we ship the release?"
• "What did we decide about pricing for Europe?"
• "Who owns the onboarding docs?"

The answer streams in under your question. Numbers in the answer are its sources: select one to open it. Under the answer, Sources lists each item once. For a meeting, chips like Ada Lovelace, 2:49 open the transcript at the moment it was said.

AI can be wrong, so check the sources. When nothing you can open answers the question, the answer says so.

After an answer, ask a follow-up in the same box, like "and the annual discount?" or "who's doing that?". Markdrop reads the earlier questions in the conversation, so short follow-ups work. Select New question to start over.

The open conversation is in the page's address, so reloading or going back keeps your place.

The chips under the box ask common questions in one tap:

• Catch me up on this week. What changed in the last 7 days among the items you can open, meetings first: the decisions, what moved in documents, and what most needs your attention.
• My open action items. Every unchecked task that @mentions you, in pages you can open, most urgent first. Meeting action items are tasks like these, so the ones assigned to you show up here. Each one links to its line on the page. If you have none, you get the answer straight away, without using AI.
• What was decided in… your most recent meeting.

You can also type these. "What did I miss?" catches you up and "What's on my plate?" lists your tasks.

Your last conversations are listed under the box. Select one to open it and continue asking. Select × to forget one, or Clear to forget them all.

Only you can see your conversations. Markdrop keeps them for 90 days after your last question in each, then deletes them. See Privacy.

Ask Markdrop finds items with the same search as Search, so it sees exactly what you can open:

• Your access, checked twice. Only items you can open now are read. Every source in an answer is checked again before you see it, and again when you reopen a conversation. If you lost access to something an earlier answer cited, that answer is hidden.
• Meetings follow their rules. A meeting restricted to its attendees is never read for anyone else. Transcript lines are read only when you can open the transcript.
• Protected items stay protected. End-to-end encrypted items are never read. A password-protected item is read by its title only.
• AI off means off. Nothing is read from a workspace whose admin turned AI features off.

Ask Markdrop shares the AI search budget with Search: $2 a day and$20 a month across Markdrop, and your own AI limits. A question costs about a tenth of a cent. When a limit is reached, the box says so and when AI will be back. Your recent conversations still open.

Ask Markdrop is built for small screens: the box is the first thing on the home, the suggestions scroll sideways, and every button is easy to tap.

• MCP. The hosted MCP server's ask_documents tool asks the same way. Pass its thread_id back to ask a follow-up, or set intent to catch_up or my_actions. See MCP tools.
• API. POST /api/v1/ask streams an answer as Server-Sent Events, and /api/v1/ask/threads lists, opens and deletes your conversations. See the API reference.

• Search
• Meetings
• AI in pages