Documents with Ava: reports, letters and PDFs, in any language
How Ava Supernova writes documents with you: Word, PDF and OpenDocument files from one editable source, templates and your house style, where they are saved, viewing them inside Ava, and PDFs in all twenty of her languages.
Ask Ava for a report, a proposal, a letter, an invoice or meeting notes and she writes it with you and gives you a real file: a Word document, a PDF, or an OpenDocument file for LibreOffice. This guide covers how that works, where your files go, and how to see them without leaving Ava.
1. Ask, in any mode
You can ask for a document in Code, Chat or Write mode. Write mode (type << or pick it in the mode menu) is made for longer pieces: Ava plans the outline, drafts, and refines it with you section by section. For a quick letter or a list, Chat is enough.
- "Write a one-page project proposal for the board."
- "Turn these notes into meeting notes with decisions and actions."
- "Make an invoice for three days of consultancy at £450 a day, as a PDF."
2. One source, any format
Ava writes the document as Markdown, a plain-text file that is the document itself. When you want a file for someone else, she builds it from that source:
- Word (.docx): opens everywhere, and the reader can edit it.
- PDF: for when it should look exactly the same for everyone, and not be edited.
- OpenDocument (.odt): the open format, for LibreOffice and anyone who prefers it.
Name the format when you ask ("as a PDF") and she builds it straight away. If you only ask for the writing, she drafts it first and then asks what the reader needs. You can also export any document later from the Library.
3. Templates and your house style
Ava has templates to start from: proposal, report, meeting notes, invoice, brief, article, press release, essay, résumé and cover letter. Ask for one by name, or ask her to save a document you like as your own template.
Tell her your font and colours once ("use dark green headings and Georgia") and she saves them as your house style. Every new document follows it, and so do the headers of the spreadsheets she makes.
4. Where your files go
Documents are saved in your project, in its documents folder, which is where the Library shows them. If you name a different folder, Ava uses that instead.
The files are made on your computer and stay there. The words you write together go to the AI provider you chose, the same as any chat with Ava.
5. See it without leaving Ava
When Ava makes a file, her message has a View button. In the Library, click a document and press View. The document opens in its own tab:
- PDFs: pages, thumbnails, zoom and search.
- Word documents: the real page layout, with their fonts, tables and headings.
- Spreadsheets: the grid, every sheet, formulas and charts.
The viewer is for reading. To change something, ask Ava, or press Open in your app to edit it in Word or LibreOffice. Show in folder takes you to the file.
6. Every language, including PDFs
Ava writes documents in all twenty of her languages, and PDFs come out right in every one of them: accented Latin letters such as Polish, Turkish and Vietnamese, Cyrillic, Arabic (right to left), Hindi, Thai, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The fonts come with Ava, so the PDF looks the same on any computer, and you can mix languages in one document.
One thing to know: a single line that mixes English and Arabic may not reorder perfectly in a PDF. Whole paragraphs in Arabic are fine.
7. Reading your documents too
Ava can read the Word files, PDFs and spreadsheets in your project. Ask her to summarise a contract, pull the figures out of a report, or check an invoice against a spreadsheet. A scanned PDF that is only a picture has no text in it to read.