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Your One-Stop Guide to Using Sider

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Technology

Installing / Enabling Sider

  • From the Chrome Web Store

    • Open Chrome Extensions
    • Click the Pin icon to show Sider in the toolbar

  • Activate Sider

    • Use the Sider icon in the bottom-right corner

  • Updating for new features

    • Open Manage Extensions
    • Enable Developer mode
    • Click Update
    • The same approach applies to Edge via Manage Extension

  • First-time login

    • Login with Google, Apple, or phone number
    • You can create a new account

  • My account

    • View Nickname, UID, Email, linked phone
    • Change your nickname

Core UI / Navigation

  • Expand/collapse the navigation bar
  • Supports full-page chat

Main Chat Capabilities

Chat with selectable AI models

  • Freely choose an AI model
  • Expect responses to vary by model

Advanced data analysis

  • When enabled: upload a data table
  • Ask questions → Sider answers based on the uploaded data

Painter (image generation inside the ecosystem)

  • Provide a text description (e.g., flowers / puppies / space)
  • Sider generates an image quickly

Screenshot-based Q&A

  • Capture a part of the browser screen
  • Sider recognizes the screenshot and answers questions without manual copy/paste or upload

Document uploads

  • Upload files → ask questions
  • Answers are derived from the document content

Webpage reading with modes

  • “Read this page” performs automatic recognition
  • Available modes include:
    • Summarize
    • Key points
    • Quiz
  • You can select different Prompts to improve precision

Prompt management

  • Manage Prompts lets you create custom prompts (add “Prompt Content”)
  • Supports:
    • Archiving unused prompts
    • Keeping a selected list of prompts

Mention Bot (model comparison)

  • Select multiple AI models
  • Send one question
  • Sider displays responses from each model for side-by-side comparison

Write / Reply / Translate / Search / OCR / Grammar / Ask

Write

  1. Paste the original text
  2. Choose Format, Tone, Length, Language
  3. Click Generate draft

Reply

  1. Copy another party’s text
  2. Enter a rough reply
  3. Choose Format/Tone/Length/Language
  4. Generate the response text

Translate

  • Select text → choose a target language → Submit
  • Also supports webpage translation via a Translate button near Sider

Search

  • On the Search page:
    • Query → Sider searches the web
    • Shows sources
    • Analyzes them and summarizes the most accurate answer
  • Can also generate answers directly inside the browser search results page (right side)

OCR

  • Upload images or capture pages to extract text
  • If charts are detected, it can return chart content in code form
  • “Formatting” converts the code into charts inside Chat

Grammar

  • Provide original text
  • Sider fixes typos/grammar and suggests improvements

Ask

  • Similar to prompt selection:
    • Pick a function
    • Ask a question
    • Receive results tailored to that function

Painter (Detailed Image Features)

Access: click the Painter icon in the function bar.

Text-to-image

  • Enter an image description
  • Choose an image generation model and aspect ratio
  • Click Generate

Image-to-image

  • Upload an image
  • Adjust strength
  • Add an output description
  • Tweak proportions
  • Click generate

Background removal

  • Use Remove Background
  • Upload image → Confirm to remove the background seamlessly

Remove text inside images

  • Remove Text
    • Upload image with text → confirm → erase text

Remove brushed areas

  • Remove Brushed Area
    • Brush over unwanted regions → confirm
    • Removes selected areas (e.g., people/objects)

Upscale

  • Upscale
    • Upload blurry image → confirm
    • Restore higher resolution using AI-based HD techniques

One-click background replacement

  • Replace Background
    • Upload image → describe desired background → change background

ChatPDF (PDF Analysis + Q&A + Translation)

  • Located below Painter in the sidebar
  • Upload a PDF → Sider analyzes it
  • Split view:
    • Left: PDF content
    • Right: AI-generated summary
  • Ask AI-prompted questions under the summary
  • Supports PDF translation and formatting translated content inside the document

Context Menu + Smart Interactions

Context menu for highlighted text

  • Highlight text → a smart menu appears nearby
  • Select an AI model and a function
  • Sider outputs results beside the highlighted text
  • Includes “Continue in chat” for follow-up questions

Writing assist via smart menu

  • Select typed text → open popup smart menu for writing assistance
  • Can also be triggered via a purple dot near the input box

Webpage-Specific AI Assistants

Q&A Assistant (Quora)

  • Open a question
  • Click “Log in to Ask”
  • Sider analyzes the question and provides an answer

Email Assistant (Gmail)

  • Click AI Reply below an email
  • Menu shows Intent and Key Point, plus reply controls:
    • Formality, Tone, Length, Your Role
  • Select a suggestion → Insert into the email draft

Code site assistance (“Explain” button)

  • On coding pages, an Explain button collects/analyzes code
  • Shows explanation in the sidebar
  • You can also select a code segment and click “Explain this”

Video Summarization (YouTube)

  • Summarize Video analyzes the YouTube video and provides:
    • General content summary
    • Key moments
  • Clicking a key-moment timestamp jumps playback to that moment
  • Subtitle features:
    • Show translated subtitles (“Original subtitles”)
    • Jump between timestamps
    • Toggle Bilingual subtitle display

Sources / Main Speakers

  • No specific individual speaker is named in the subtitles
  • The source uses a Sider product/help-center style narrator, e.g.:

    “This is an introduction to the features of Sider… visit Sider’s Help Center”

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