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Manage Docs with Brain AI

Use Brain AI to engage with an entire Doc or specific content. Get an executive summary of a long proposal, or generate action items from a project outline.

You can also use our Write with Brain AI to improve, summarize, or translate selected text in a Doc.

Feature availability and limits vary by plan and user role. Learn more

Open Brain AI

To open Brain in a Doc:

  • In the upper-right corner, click Ask.
  • The ClickUp Brain modal opens to the right of the Doc. 

Use a natural-language prompt

You can ask Brain anything using a custom, natural language prompt:

  1. Open Brain in a Doc.
  2. In the prompt field, type your prompt and press Enter or Return.

Summarize a Doc

To summarize a Doc's content:

  1. Open Brain in a Doc.
  2. Select Summarize.

Screenshot showing the ClickUp Brain AI sidebar opened from a Doc with the Summarize and Action Items buttons highlighted.png

Generate action items in a Doc

To generate action items from a Doc's content:

  1. Open Brain in a Doc.
  2. Select Action Items.

Create tasks from the text toolbar

You can use AI to create a task from selected text, using the text toolbar.

After AI responds 

After AI responds, you have the following choices:
Action Description
Copy Copy the content and manually paste it into another location. You can also manually copy any part of the generated text.
Create task Create a task from the generated content. 
Create Doc Create a Doc from the generated content. 
Retry Generate slightly different content. 
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