Welcome to Ax-Pops
Your Family & Friend's Personal Arena
Ax-Pops is where family and friends talk, share and plan together, with existing or newly created personalized personas, as well as with one another.
◧ Left Pane
The panel on the left, always one tap away (☰ on a phone). Here is what each part of it is:
1Gabi 2admin
3🌓
4🔔
5👤
6📇
7📅
8🖼️
9🎭
10📥
11✉️
12🔍
13🚪
14🛠️
15⭐ Favorites
# Medical ★
16💬 Rooms
17# General 18☆
19✉️ DMs
20🟢 Pops 18☆
21👥 Roster
22🟢 Online · ⚪ Offline
- 1Your name - with a green dot while you are online.
- 2Admin badge - shows only if you are an admin.
- 3🌓 Theme - switches between the dark and light look.
- 4🔔 Notifications - opens your notifications. A number on it counts the ones you haven't read.
- 5👤 Account - the Account area, where users customize their preferences:
- Choose a Picture or Remove it.
- Add a Birthday. (It will appear in the 📅 Calendar.)
- Enable or Disable which sound alerts to hear.
- Enable or Disable email notifications.
- Enable or Disable, and set the day and time for, a weekly follow-up from Pops.
- Record a short sample of your own voice so your messages can be read aloud to others.
- Change your password.
- 6📇 Contacts - your own personal address book. Only you can see it. Add people with their picture, name, address, phone numbers, emails, social media, birthday and more. Each contact has Message, Call, Video, Social Media and Map buttons, and you can send an invite to anyone who is not on Ax-Pops yet. Contact birthdays show in your 📅 Calendar.
- 7📅 Calendar - the place where users add appointments and get-togethers, set reminders, and choose who sees each one.
- 8🖼️ Photos - the photos area. All photos shared in Ax-Pops get archived here for simpler viewing.
- 9🎭 Personas - create your own persona with its own name, personality and voice. Once saved it joins the 👥 Roster, and anyone can @mention it in a room. Shows only to persona creators and admins.
- 10📥 Requests - found something broken, or want a new feature? Tap 📥, then + New request, choose bug or feature, give it a short title and describe it. Follow it as New, Open or Done. A number shows how many are still active.
- 11✉️ DM (Direct Messaging) - use this button to search for a person or persona to start a private Direct Message conversation.
- 12🔍 Search - tap to search from existing rooms, people and messages.
- 13🚪 Log Out - signs you out.
- 14🛠️ Admin - the admin tools. Shows only to admins.
- 15⭐ Favorites - the rooms and conversations you starred, one tap away.
- 16💬 Rooms (User created public rooms) - where groups of users can chat with the personas, or amongst themselves. Tap one to open it. Tap the heading to fold the list up or down.
- 17Room name - the room you tap to open. The open one is highlighted, and a number beside it counts unread messages.
- 18☆ Star - tap to add a room or conversation to ⭐ Favorites. Tap ★ again to remove it.
- 19✉️ DMs - your private conversations with people and personas. A green dot means online.
- 20Conversation - tap a name to open that private conversation.
- 21👥 Roster - shows who is online and offline, personas included, in two lists: Online and Offline.
- 22Online / Offline - tap a name to start a direct message. You always appear under Online while you are signed in.
▣ Main Pane
The big area on the right. It shows this Welcome page until you open something. Here is what appears in it:
1☰
2# General
33 people · 2 artificial intelligences
4📹
5 A room or conversation shows its messages here, as chat bubbles.
6 Rick is typing…
7Replying to Pops · "Here is the answer…" ✕
8🎤
9📎
10Type a message…
11Send
- 1☰ Menu - on a phone, opens the Left Pane. The Left Pane stays open by itself on a bigger screen.
- 2Title - what is open: a room, a person or persona, the 📅 Calendar or the 🖼️ Photos. It reads Welcome to Ax-Pops when nothing is open.
- 3Who is here - in a room, how many people and artificial intelligences are in it. In a DM, it says whether the other person is online or offline.
- 4📹 Video call - in a DM room, tap it to open a direct video call, with voice and video, with the other person.
- 5Messages - the conversation, as chat bubbles (see the Chat Bubble card). The 📅 Calendar and 🖼️ Photos also open here.
- 6Typing line - shows who is typing right now.
- 7Reply note - appears above the message box when you tap ↩ on a message. ✕ cancels it.
- 8🎤 Microphone - speak your message instead of typing it.
- 9📎 Attach - share pictures and files with one another: tap it, select your picture or file and send it off. (All photos get archived in the 🖼️ Photos.)
- 10Text box - type your message. Start with @ and a persona's name to ask it something.
- 11Send - sends your message.
🗨️ Chat Bubble
Every message in a room or a DM sits in a chat bubble. Here is what each part of it is:
1🧓Pops
2@mention
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4🌐
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6💲
7🔊
8⋯
9 Here is the answer to your question…
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- 1Name - who wrote the message: a person or a persona.
- 2Mention - @mention means a persona answered because someone typed its @name. ambient means the persona chimed in on its own.
- 3Date and time stamp - when the message was sent. Hold your pointer over it for the full date and time.
- 4🌐 Web badge - on a persona reply that was checked against official web sources.
- 5Model used - on a persona reply, the name of the AI model that wrote it.
- 6💲 Send a tip - on a persona reply, opens Cash App so you can send a tip.
- 7🔊 Speaker - plays the message out loud. Persona replies play by themselves for the person who asked; tap 🔊 to hear any message again.
- 8⋯ Menu - shows on your own messages and has these options:
- ✏️ Edit - change what you wrote. Press Enter to save or Esc to cancel. An edited tag then appears.
- 📤 Move thread - in a DM, moves that conversation into a room or into a new private thread.
- 🗑️ Delete - removes the message, after you confirm.
- 9Text area - the message itself. A shared photo or file shows here too.
- 10🙂 Reaction - add one of ten emoji to any message. Tap yours again to take it off. The count shows beside it, and hovering shows who reacted.
- 11↩ Reply - quotes this message above your next one. Tap the quote to jump back to the original.
🤖 Chatting with the Personas
Use the @ symbol immediately followed by the persona's name, along with your question or statement, in a public room, and that persona will respond with their personalized personality and voice.
Ex., @pops what is the square root of 77? or @pops I am feeling like a "Debby Downer" right now, cheer me up!
Select an Icon button below to start exploring and utilizing Ax-Pops and all its wonderful features.