How-to guide · Voice & conversation Ask follow-up questions

Actionmulti-turn
Audience Cognitive Age
Time A few seconds per follow-up
Permissions None — it’s just how every conversation works
What this is: Aside remembers the recent back-and-forth inside a session, so a follow-up like “and Tuesday?”, “the second one,” or “why?” works without restating the original question. You don’t need to learn a syntax. Just talk the way you would to another person who’s already in the conversation. The session is kept on the server (and mirrored on your phone), so the context lasts as long as you keep talking.
Try it now

Open Aside. Say or type:

“What’s on my calendar today?”

Aside reads back today’s events. Now, without re-stating the topic, just say:

“What about tomorrow?”

Aside understands you’re still asking about the calendar — it answers with tomorrow’s schedule, no extra words required.

Step by step

  1. Open Aside at idle

    Open Aside. The orb breathes calmly. The status pill reads IDLE. There’s nothing in the chat history yet for this session — the bottom-sheet history pill at the foot of the screen is empty until your first turn.

    The Aside main screen at idle on a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra. Across the top: the word ‘Aside’ with a red dot, a status pill reading ‘● IDLE’, a cost counter ‘$1.034 today’, and a ‘NEW’ link top-right. The warm-paper-colored orb sits centered, slowly breathing. Below the orb in large bold type: ‘Tell me everything,’ and beneath it ‘Tap the orb or type below.’. Lower on the screen, the clay-colored ‘Make Aside my assistant’ pill is visible. The bottom row shows four mono pills: ‘history’, ‘type’, ‘muted’, ‘memory’.
    Fresh session. The history bottom-sheet has nothing in it yet.

  2. Ask the first question

    Tap the orb to speak (or tap type to type) and ask anything that has natural follow-ups — calendar items, weather over multiple days, lists of things, comparisons. Aside answers normally and the chat history grows by one pair of messages.

    What’s on my calendar today?
    The Aside main screen with the chat history bottom sheet pulled up to mid-screen, showing the first turn. Inside the sheet, three stacked entries: a clay-tinted ‘ASIDE NOTE’ chip reading ‘new session’; a small mono label ‘YOU’ above the line ‘What is on my calendar today?’; and a label ‘ASIDE’ above the reply ‘You’ve got nothing on your calendar today.’. Behind the sheet, the orb is dimmed and the status pill at the top reads ‘● READY’; the cost counter has incremented from the idle screen.
    First turn complete. Aside has read today’s calendar from your phone’s context.

  3. Ask a follow-up that depends on the previous answer

    Now ask the follow-up. The trick is to say it the way you would to a person who already knows what you’re talking about — “and tomorrow?”, “what about Friday?”, “is that all?”. You do not need to repeat the word “calendar.” Aside knows.

    What about tomorrow?
    The Aside main screen with the chat history bottom sheet still up. The status pill at the top has changed to ‘● THINKING…’ and the orb behind the dimmed sheet has shifted to a dotted, animated thinking pattern. Inside the sheet, four stacked entries: an ‘ASIDE NOTE — new session’ chip; ‘YOU — What is on my calendar today?’; the ‘ASIDE’ reply ‘You’ve got nothing on your calendar today.’; and a fresh ‘YOU — What about tomorrow?’ at the bottom of the sheet. There is no Aside reply for the second turn yet.
    The follow-up sent. Aside is thinking with the previous turn still in context.

  4. See Aside use the context to answer

    Aside’s reply ties back to the original topic without you ever saying the word calendar again. The history grows by one more pair. The orb returns to idle (or to listening, if you started in voice and continuous mode is on).

    The Aside main screen with the chat history bottom sheet now scrolled to show the complete multi-turn exchange. From top to bottom inside the sheet: an ‘ASIDE NOTE — new session’ chip; ‘YOU — What is on my calendar today?’; ‘ASIDE — You’ve got nothing on your calendar today.’; ‘YOU — What about tomorrow?’; and ‘ASIDE — Nothing scheduled for tomorrow either.’. The status pill at the top reads ‘● READY’ and the cost counter has incremented again. The reply for the follow-up answered the calendar question without the user ever saying ‘calendar’ in the second turn.
    Two turns, one continuous thread. Notice the second reply never asks “tomorrow’s what?”
How long does Aside remember? Within a session, the recent turns are kept in context on the server. Tap the NEW link at the top-right of the screen to start a fresh session — that drops the conversational context but keeps anything you’ve explicitly asked Aside to remember (addresses, names, routines). For a deeper, permanent kind of memory see Teach Aside something to remember.
Note: Follow-ups work best when there’s a clear referent in the previous turn. If you ask “What’s the weather?” then jump to “Where’s the closest pharmacy?” then back to “is it warmer?”, Aside may guess wrong about which thread you’re on. Restating the topic once helps in those cases.