Nova, in your browser.

The same Nova you already message at work — now beside whatever page you're looking at. Ask him a question, or point at something on the screen and tell him what you want done with it. He answers if it's quick, and picks it up as a task if it isn't.

Download for Chrome nova-extension.zip · 103 KB · v3.0.0

Ask

A chat that follows you around

Click Nova's icon and a panel opens next to the page. Ask him anything you'd normally ask him at work — he knows our products, our code and what's in flight. It's the same conversation as your Slack DM with him, so switch browsers or reinstall and the history is still there, and anything he replies reaches you in Slack too.

Annotate

Point at it instead of describing it

Press Annotate, click any element on the page, and say what you want: “change this text to…” or “this is not working”. He gets your words plus a picture of exactly what you pointed at, and takes it from there.

Installing it

About a minute, once per computer. Chrome asks you to do the last steps yourself — that's deliberate on Chrome's part, and nothing can skip it.

Download and unzip it

You'll get a folder called nova-extension. Keep it somewhere permanent — Chrome loads it from wherever it sits, so don't leave it in Downloads if you clear that out.
Open chrome://extensions

Paste that into the address bar, then turn on Developer mode with the switch in the top-right corner.
Click “Load unpacked” and choose the folder

Select the nova-extension folder itself — not a file inside it. Nova appears in your extensions list.
Pin him to the toolbar and sign in

Click the puzzle-piece icon, pin Nova, then click his face to open the panel. Tip: Ctrl+Shift+U (⌘+Shift+U on a Mac) starts an annotation on any page.

Signing in

There's nothing new to remember. You prove who you are with the work account you already use every day.

Press Connect Slack. Our work chat asks you to approve it, once.
That approval only succeeds for a KnowledgeCity account, so Nova knows exactly who you are.
That's it — no separate account, nothing to remember, and anyone Nova can't identify is turned away.
Your messages go to your own direct conversation with Nova, so the same thread is there when you open the chat app.

Worth knowing

He acts as himself

Nova does the work under his own name and the same rules he follows everywhere else. Anything risky still gets checked with a human before it happens.

Your page stays yours

Nova sees a page only when you ask about one. Press Annotate and he gets the area you chose; ask something that refers to what's on screen and he gets that screen, once, at the moment you asked. If you're reporting a fault he also gets the page's error log, stripped of passwords, tokens and email addresses. Nothing is recorded in between, and nothing is kept after the tab closes.

It's early

If something looks wrong, tell Nova in the panel and point at it. That's the fastest route to a fix, and it's exactly what the tool is for.