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Answers that appear beside your cursor without touching your text. Save the questions you ask often and give each a shortcut — or type a custom question on the spot.

A document with a sentence selected and Rithere's Explain Simply card open beside the cursor, showing a plain-language answer — The answer opens beside your cursor. Your document is never touched — close the card and everything is exactly as you left it.

Six things worth asking about

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A clause in plain English

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Either party may terminate upon thirty (30) days’ written notice, without cause…

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What it actually means, plus the two details that matter: when the clock starts, and what still has to be paid.

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An error that explains itself

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ECONNRESET at TLSWrap.onStreamRead

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What failed at the socket, the three usual causes in order of likelihood, and the first setting to compare.

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One word of jargon, unpacked

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heteroskedasticity

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A one-line answer, why anyone cares, what it breaks, and the fix — without leaving the slide you were reading.

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A claim, checked before you send it

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Churn improved 40% quarter on quarter.

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Why that sentence is ambiguous to a board, the wording that is not, and the two things worth stating alongside it.

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An abstraction, made concrete

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idempotency

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Three worked examples from systems you already use, and the one case people always get wrong.

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A policy paragraph, translated

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Employees are expected to maintain core hours overlap per the revised schedule…

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What it means for you specifically, what changes, and which part is a recommendation rather than a rule.

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All 21 examples, by role 31 prompts to copy

Two Ways to Ask

Saved Asks

Keep the questions you repeat — Explain Simply, Give Synonyms, Fact Check — each on its own shortcut. Select text, press it, and the answer opens in a popup beside your cursor.

Custom Ask

For a question you'll only ask once. It's the first row of the same list: press its shortcut, type the question, and the answer streams in beside your selection. Either way, your document is never modified.

Use Cases

Developers

Highlight a gnarly regular expression and run your "Explain Code" template — or ask "What does this return if the array is empty?" mid-review. Your source code stays exactly as it was.

Alt+E

Writers

Run "Give Synonyms" on a word you've overused, or ask "Is there a more recent statistic for this?" about a fact you just wrote — all without opening a browser or losing your draft.

Alt+S

Students

Reading a dense PDF? Highlight a concept and use "Explain Simply" for a beginner-friendly breakdown, or ask "What were the main causes of this event?" about a passage in your notes.

Alt+E

Managers

Run "Fact Check" on a claim in a report and see the caveats in a small popup, or ask what an unfamiliar acronym in a colleague's message stands for — without disturbing the document.

Alt+F

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