refly-ai/refly

Support multi-turn questioning after selecting and highlighting text in a document

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#734 opened on Apr 16, 2025

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The user wants to enhance the document interaction experience by allowing users to select or highlight specific text within a document and then initiate a multi-turn conversation or Q&A session about that specific selected content. This would enable more context-specific and targeted interactions with the document, allowing users to dig deeper into particular sections or passages by asking follow-up questions directly related to the highlighted text.

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Contributor guide

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
frontendai
Issue type
feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
4
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-2 days
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
fresh
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
unclear
Prerequisites
Understanding of text selection APIsReact component designConversation state management
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
30
Research direction
Investigate the current document viewer component in the codebase to understand how text selection is handled. Look for existing event listeners for mouseup or selectionchange. Determine how the selected text can be passed to the multi turn Q&A system. Review the existing conversation data flow to see how follow up questions are managed. Consider creating a new context or state to hold the selected text per conversation turn.