Storytell response menu
The Response Menu is an interactive feature that appears whenever you highlight text inside any Storytell response or Artifact. It provides quick, context-aware tools that let you deepen understanding, rewrite content, analyze tone, or explore related ideas, without crafting new prompts from scratch.
Written By Patrick Intervalo
Last updated 8 days ago

How It Works
You can activate the Response Menu in two ways:
Hover to Select
When you hover your mouse over a section header or response block:
The entire block automatically highlights
The Response Menu appears above it
No clicking required

This makes it faster to interact with complete sections of a response.
Manual Selection
You can also manually:
Highlight any portion of text inside a Storytell response or Artifact
The floating Response Menu appears directly above your selection
Choose from the available actions
This is useful when you only want to work with a specific sentence or paragraph instead of the entire block.
Important: Credit Usage
All actions (except Copy, +Add, and Share) generate a new AI-powered response and consume credits.
Menu Actions

The menu includes seven main action categories:
Copy text
Copies the highlighted text to your clipboard instantly.
No follow-up prompt and no credit usage.
+Add Knowledge
Adds the selected portion of a Storytell response to your Project Knowledge.
This allows you to use Storytell’s own output as context in future chats.
Why This Matters
Think of it this way:
A chat thread is short-term memory
A project is long-term memory
If you start a new chat thread, it does not automatically remember what happened in previous threads.
By adding selected responses (or even entire chat threads) to your Project Knowledge, you:
Make your project smarter
Improve future responses
Preserve important insights
Build cumulative intelligence over time
You can:
Add just a selected block using +Add Knowledge
Add a full response
Use “View Sections” to add an entire chat thread

This helps prevent future chats from being “blind” to past work.
Chat with
Opens a focused chat panel where Storytell automatically creates a follow-up prompt related to the highlighted text.
You can use this to:
Ask clarifying questions
Continue the topic
Request expansions, rewrites, or summaries
Explore alternatives or improvements
This option acts like a quick-launch contextual conversation.
Go Deeper
Generates extended exploration of the selected content.
Includes:
Get more detail on this — Expands with fuller explanations
Find similar content like this — Provides related insights, examples, or comparable ideas
Great for research, brainstorming, or deeper topic mastery.
Web Search
Runs a contextual web search based on the selected text.
Useful for:
Fact-checking
Finding sources
Getting up-to-date information
Discovering external articles, definitions, or news
Visualize text
Transforms highlighted text into a visual format.
Depending on the content, this may include:
Diagrams
Structured tables
Charts
Infographics
Bullet summaries
Useful for simplifying complex ideas or preparing content for presentations and documentation.
Learn more: 1-Click creation of images and infographics
Share
Generates a public URL that links directly to the exact selected section of the Storytell response.
When shared:
The recipient lands on that precise part of the response
No scrolling required
Perfect for collaboration and async sharing
Other Options (Advanced Tools)

These appear below the main menu and offer deeper, more specialized interactions.
Explain
Perfect for simplifying or clarifying complex content.
Includes:
Explain like I'm five — Ultra-basic, analogy-based explanation
Explain like I'm in middle school — Moderate difficulty
Explain like I'm in high school — More detail and reasoning
Why does this matter? — Context, significance, and impact
Rewrite this for a different audience
Transforms tone, complexity, or style for specific readers.
Options include:
For brevity — Concise and focused
For an executive audience — High-level, strategic, outcome-focused
For a less technical audience — Simplified wording and removed jargon
For a more technical audience — Precise, detail-rich, advanced terminology
Rewrite for personality type (MBTI) — ISTJ, INTJ, ENFJ, etc.
Analyze feelings and needs
Provides emotional and psychological interpretation of any text.
Includes:
What feelings or emotions were expressed?
What met or unmet needs are present?
How could this have gone better?
What's really happening inside this person right now?
What's happening under the surface here?
Ideal for customer feedback, conflict analysis, user research, or personal communication refinement.
Find similar content like this
Provides parallel ideas, examples, related concepts, or thematically similar material based on the highlighted text.
Useful for:
Expanding research
Finding alternative angles
Creating variations on the same idea
Comparing patterns across topics
Translate
Instantly translates the selected Storytell response into your preferred language.
Useful for:
Multilingual collaboration
Localizing content
Sharing outputs across global teams
Getting Started
Generate a response from Storytell on any topic
Hover over a section header to quickly select the full block
OR manually highlight specific text
When the Response Menu appears, choose your desired action
Review the automatically generated follow-up response
Remember: all actions except Copy, +Add, and Share consume credits.