# The chat, piece by piece

> Everything on the chat page — the sidebar, the conversation, what ROUTIX holds in mind, the composer and its switches — and the page on a phone.

The chat is where one agent does the whole work with you. It is one page: your chats on the left, the conversation in the middle, and — on a wide screen — **Routix Mind** on the right when you open it.

## The sidebar

**New chat**, **Search**, **Studio** and **Chats**, then your most recent chats (a spinner beside one that is working; **View all chats →** for the rest), and at the bottom **Credits**, **Settings** and your name, which opens your Profile. Fold the sidebar to icons and the chat remembers it.

## The header

The **Routix** wordmark, and under it what this chat is working with — before a clip is in: *"Upload a clip, add references, and describe the transformation"*. On the right: the **Routix Mind** button (on a wide screen), your credit balance — it says **Low** when it runs low, and opens the Credits page — and your picture's menu.

## The conversation

- **Your messages**, with your pictures, clips and sounds — each playable where it sits.
- **ROUTIX's answers.** While it works, a live line under the last message says what it is doing; when something lands, that line folds into **Thought for …**, which you can open any time — even after a reload.
- **What I'm holding in mind** — after ROUTIX reads your footage: the subjects it found and the facts it holds, as *"… subjects · … facts held"*. Rename a subject with its pencil, and that is the name ROUTIX uses.
- **Cards** for the work itself: the plan, pictures **on the desk** for your review, the video being made, and the finished video — see [Making video in the chat](https://routix.studio/help/chat/making-video-in-the-chat).
- **Your material** — when a stage's pictures are all settled, folder cards (Subjects, References…) appear at the end; each opens in Routix Mind's Library.

## The composer

- **The box** — *"Describe the scene, style, or transformation..."*. Enter sends; Shift+Enter starts a new line.
- **+** and the picture button bring your files — see [Bring your files](https://routix.studio/help/chat/chats#bring-your-files).
- **BLIND | BLINK** — the chat's two controls. **Blind**: ROUTIX does the work on its own, handed to its blind mind. **Blink**: it stops at each step and checks it with you. See [Blind and Blink](https://routix.studio/help/chat/blind-and-blink).
- **The eye button** — it reads **ROUTIX decides** until you choose — opens **How I'll make this**: which model moves, which one paints, how long ROUTIX thinks, how closely it looks, how strictly Fovea judges. See [How I'll make this](https://routix.studio/help/chat/how-ill-make-this).
- **Send**, which becomes **Stop** for as long as ROUTIX is working.
- Above the box, a small **Now** card of Routix Mind — press it to open the Mind.

The switches wait while ROUTIX is working; change them before your next message.

## Routix commands

Press **Ctrl+K** (on a Mac, **⌘K**) for **Routix commands**: **New chat**, **Studio**, **Open library**, **Write a direction**, **Add source video**, **Add reference image**, **Toggle Routix Mind** and **Reuse last direction**.

## Coming back to a chat

Open it from the sidebar or the Chats page: its recent messages, pictures, thinking rows and readings come back where they were. Your choices for that chat — Blind or Blink, how closely ROUTIX looks, how long it thinks, your picks and Fovea's strictness — are remembered too.

## On a phone

The sidebar is behind the menu button at the top left. Routix Mind opens as a sheet from the bottom. Everything else is the same page.

## Frequently asked questions

### Where are the pictures ROUTIX made in this chat?

In **Routix Mind** → **Library**, and on the Chats page under the chat's card (**Browse all files**).

### Can I edit or delete a message?

No. Say what should be different in your next message — ROUTIX reads the whole conversation.

Source: https://routix.studio/help/chat/the-chat · Updated 2026-10-24