Chatting with a board to write your next post

This article covers starting a chat, the six presets that come built in, and the kinds of questions that produce useful answers.

How chat scopes to source material

Eden's chat does not auto-scope to whichever board you happen to be looking at. The chat starts unscoped, and you tell it what to read in one of two ways:

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   Click the chat icon on a board

   Inside any board, click the chat icon in the top right. This opens a chat that is auto-scoped to that board. The chat panel slides in from the right and the board stays visible on the left so you can scroll the source material while you read the answer.

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   Or @ mention items from anywhere

   If you open the chat from outside a board (or from a board that is not your source material), the chat starts blank. Type @ in the composer and pick any board, document, card, or saved post. The chat reads whatever you mention. You can mix sources, for example one board plus three specific posts from another.

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   Pick a preset or type a question

   Six presets are listed at the top of an empty chat. Tap one to start, or type your own question into the input. Presets work with whatever you have scoped, whether that is a full board (chat-icon route) or a handful of @-mentioned items.

The six presets

Each preset turns the chat into a focused expert for one job. Click the preset and the chat sends the starting message, then asks you for whatever input it needs (the post to break down, the topic to write about, etc.).

• Content Breakdown. Reverse-engineer why a piece of content works. The chat pulls apart structure, hooks, psychological tactics, and the building blocks you can reuse. Best paired with one strong post you @ mention or paste in.
• Thinking Partner. Refine and deepen an idea through structured dialogue. A rigorous back-and-forth that surfaces hidden assumptions, contradictions, and the through-line you have not articulated yet.
• Start Writing. Turn research, ideas, or a rough draft into a piece you can ship. The chat synthesizes any sources you @ mention, proposes a few angles, recommends one, and scaffolds the piece in the format you are writing in.
• Find Your Voice. Discover the intellectual signature only you can own. The chat excavates the thinkers, ideas, and lived experiences that have shaped how you see the world, then synthesizes them into a body-of-work blueprint you can build from.
• Grade My Content. Grade a draft, then sharpen the moves that matter most. Honest scores on hook, voice, specificity, and payoff. Specific line-level wounds with rewrites in your voice.
• Niche Playbook. Surface what is hitting in a niche, then ideate spinoffs. Patterns, hooks, and ranked spinoff ideas grounded in actual viral posts you have saved.

The presets are conventions, not constraints. Once you know what you want, your own questions usually outperform them.

What works well

The chat is good at four jobs:

• Pattern naming. Reading 30 saved posts and telling you which structures repeat. Your eye does this slowly. The chat does it in one pass.
• Variation generation. Producing 10 hook variations against a topic, given a board of hook examples. You pick the one that sounds like you and rewrite it.
• Outlining. Turning a board of research items plus a topic prompt into a structured outline. The structure is usually the slow part of writing. The chat removes most of it.
• Stress-testing a draft. Paste a draft, ask the chat which sentences are weakest. The answers are specific, because the chat has the swipe-file context.

What works less well

Two jobs the chat is deliberately not good at:

• Writing the final post for you. The chat produces drafts, but they read like AI drafts. Use the drafts as scaffolding, not as the published version. Your voice is the asset; the chat protects time, not voice.
• Deep voice imitation. "Find your voice" gives a stylistic profile and reasonable matches. It does not replace you. Posts produced by the chat alone are recognizable.

If you find yourself shipping the chat's first draft as the final post, that is a signal to slow down, not a signal to use the chat more.

Tips for better answers

Five small habits that meaningfully improve what the chat produces:

• Curate the board first. A board of 15 strong items beats a board of 100 mixed ones. Garbage-in shows up clearly in the chat.
• Be specific about the audience. "Write for X creators with under 10k followers" is more useful than "make this engaging".
• Ask follow-up questions. The first answer is usually generic. The third is usually useful. Treat it like a real conversation.
• Paste your own draft. The chat performs much better with a draft to work against than with a blank canvas.
• Use sections to scope the chat. When a board has sections, the chat can be told to read only one section. Useful for a board that holds both swipe-file material and your own past work.

Privacy

Whatever you mention into the chat (a board, a document, a card, a saved post) is treated as your private source material. The chat history and any drafts pasted in stay private to your account. Chat does not train any external model. Read the privacy policy for the full detail.

Where to go next

• For the discipline of curating a board the chat will read well, read how creators use Eden boards as swipe files.
• For organizing a board so the chat can read just one section at a time, read using sections to organize a board.