v0.beta.2025.12.31(v0.beta.2025.12.31)
Activities
Today we launch a newer and smarter way to chat with the Poly agent to create or find something special. We call them activities, and they’re simple guided actions you can take with the help of the agent. We’ve heard from users that their blank Poly drive can be confusing since they don’t know what to use it for. That’s why several of this week’s activities center around the agent actually find or creating content for you, not just organizing your own content. Here’s an example…
The eight launch activities are:
- Generate a Podcast Episode — the agent will guide you through creating a podcast or audio summary of a set of files, or on any topic you wish
- Create Study Flash Cards — the agent creates an interactive flash card app just for you based on your study content, such as a textbook or website.
- Organize a Folder — the agent will iteratively organize a folder of files for you, doing things such as removing duplicates, organizing and tagging, and removing junk
- Scrape a Webpage for Media — the agent scrapes a webpage to download files / images for you. Useful for downloading a bunch of images from an online album
- Find a lost file — the agent helps you search for a file that’s lurking among your files. Perhaps you misplaced it or it has the wrong name.
- Deep Dive into a Youtube Video — summarize, study, and review a long youtube video or media file.
- Assemble a Research Dossier — the agent will search the web for documents, references, links, and other materials about any topic you wish
- Concept Art and Storyboarding — have the agent help you create concept art, images, comic panels, and keyframes for some kind of visual storytelling
On the cusp of the new year we take a trip down memory lane to revisit one of our childhood favorite comics, Little Nemo.
Amidst a call for new aesthetics and rise in concern for AI slop, Winsor McCay’s experiments with the form of the comics page was truly ahead of its time, originally launched way back in 1905.
If you don’t feel inclined to splash on this complete collection of all 549 comics, you can check out this archive instead. While you’re at it, run an Activity or two to dive deeper and create your own graphics in this style!
Improvements
- We’ve improved the “Agent” new chat page to give you a view of your recent files as well as activities. Drag a file straight form your recents into the agent to start chatting right away!
- When starting an activity, the chat shows a friendly visual of the activity you just started
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where making a shared folder public would not succeed
- Fixed a bug with downloading files in certain circumstances, which was unsuccessful
Happy new year!
Join our Discord to share any bugs and requests, and give us your thoughts over coffee, virtually or in person.
Till next week!
— Your friends at Poly 🔶