Stop pasting your workinto a chatbot tab
The ChatGPT loop is five steps: open a tab, paste the context, paste the text, copy the answer, paste it back. Khint turns that into one: a saved AI action on whatever text you select, behind a single keyboard shortcut, with the context carried for you and the result pushed where it belongs.
The cost isn't the model,
it's the round-trips
A chatbot tab is a great place to think and a tedious place to work. For a single answer it is fine; for the twentieth ticket of the day you're retyping the same product preamble and ferrying text between two windows. Khint keeps the same AI and removes the ferrying — the instruction is a saved agent, the context lives in Memory, and the result lands in place.
Describe it in the idea bar
Type what you want in plain language. Khint builds a plan out of your own agents and your connected tools, shows it to you, and runs nothing until you confirm.
Say it out loud
Tap your voice key, speak, tap again. The text lands at your cursor in any app, cleaned up in the same pass. An agent or a workflow can listen on its own key.
Point at your screen
Draw a region over anything on screen, even an image or a video call. Khint reads the text into your clipboard, or opens a chat you can keep asking questions in.
Three ways to hand work over, and none of them is a tab: the input you give, then the output you get back where you were.
Five round-trips down to one shortcut
A Tuesday intake pass: raw notes to filed tickets, no tab in sight.
The copy-paste loop, once
It is Tuesday, you have a wall of raw meeting notes, and three of them need to become Jira tickets. The chatbot way: open a tab, paste “here's our product and how we write tickets”, paste the notes, read the answer, copy it, switch to Jira, paste, repeat for the next two. Five context switches per ticket, and the product preamble retyped each time. Khint collapses that into one selection plus one shortcut.
Save the instruction as an agent
In Agents, create an agent like “Notes to ticket”. No prompt to hand-write? Type a one-line description and press Generate: Khint drafts the prompt; press Improve later to refine it in place. Now the instruction you used to retype into every chat is a reusable row in the palette.
Let Memory carry the context you used to re-paste
Start a Memory session called “Sprint 24 intake”. Khint keeps a compact running summary of what you have worked on and prepends it to every Agent, so the product area and conventions you kept restating in new chats are already there.
Select, shortcut, done: no tab switch
Highlight the first block of notes, press Cmd+Shift+K, run “Notes to ticket”, and the structured ticket is pasted back where your cursor is. No browser tab opened, no answer copied by hand. Repeat on the next block: same agent, same context, one shortcut each.
Push to the tracker from the same keyboard
With Atlassian connected, the palette's Jira Create issue row files the ticket directly: one issue per run, so each write is deliberate. Prefer Linear? The Linear rows draft issues the same way. The copy-paste-into-the-tracker step that always followed a chatbot answer is now part of the shortcut.
Same task, two workflows
Turning a block of meeting notes into a tracked ticket.
With Khint
- Stay where the text already is and press Cmd+Shift+K. No tab, no context switch.
- Run a Memory session once; its compacted summary travels with every agent, so you never restate the context.
- The instruction lives in a saved agent: pick it from the palette and it runs the same way every time.
- The result is pasted back in place, or pushed straight to Jira, Linear or Confluence via the integrations.
- Agents only see the text you select; Memory stays in local SQLite on your Mac and never leaves the device silently.
With a chatbot tab
- Open a browser tab and a fresh chat.
- Re-paste the product area, the audience, and the format you want, every chat.
- Retype the instruction (“make this a user story with criteria”).
- Copy the answer, switch back, paste it into the tracker.
- Your notes pile up in a chat history you have to remember to clear.
When the chatbot is still the right tool
Open-ended exploration, brainstorming, a long back-and-forth where you don't know the shape of the answer yet: that's what a chat window is for, and Khint doesn't replace it. Khint is for the repeated transformation: the same kind of rewrite, applied to text you select, dozens of times a week. When the job is “do this specific thing to this specific text and put it back,” a saved agent beats a fresh prompt. You can even chain a few agents into one workflow so a multi-step rewrite runs end to end from a single shortcut.
Common questions
What's a 'text action' compared to a chatbot prompt?
A chatbot prompt is typed fresh into a tab each time, then you copy the answer back by hand. A Khint agent is a prompt you write once and reuse forever: select text anywhere, press Cmd+Shift+K, pick the agent, and the rewritten text is pasted back in place. The instruction lives in the agent, not in your muscle memory, so 'turn these notes into a Jira ticket' is one shortcut instead of a paragraph you retype every time.
Do I still need to paste my product context every time?
No. That's the part Khint removes. Start a Memory session for what you're working on and Khint keeps a compacted running summary that rides along on every agent automatically. In a chatbot you restate the product area, the audience, and the conventions in each new chat; with a Memory session the model already has that context, so you only select the new text.
Can it write back to Jira, Confluence or Linear like I would after a chat?
Yes, without the copy-paste tail. Connect Atlassian (email, API token, cloud domain) or Linear and the palette gains rows to Pull an issue, Create issue, Add comment, Change status, or Create a Confluence page. One item per run, so every write is explicit. After a chatbot answer you would still paste the result into the tracker yourself; here the push is part of the same shortcut.
Is my text safer than pasting it into a chat history?
An agent only ever sees the text you selected, plus the compacted summary of your active Memory session if you opted in, nothing else from your screen. Memory sessions live in a local SQLite database on your Mac and are never synced to Khint's servers, so your roadmap isn't accumulating in a chat transcript you forgot to clear. Stop the session and the context is closed.
Close the tab, keep the shortcut
Free with 300 credits a month, about 10 AI actions a day. No credit card. Save the agent once, run it on every selection after.