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Ask your library a question
Updated 13 October 2026. 2 minute read.
Search finds documents. Often you do not want a document. You want the one fact inside it: the name of the restaurant someone recommended, the size of the shelf, the date the offer ends. Ask Your Library is for that.
How it works
You type a question in your own words. Stashy looks through your saves for the ones that are relevant, and Apple's on-device model writes an answer from them. Underneath the answer you see which saves it used, and you can open any of them.
Two things are worth knowing:
- It only knows what you saved. It does not search the web and it does not bring in outside knowledge about your question. If the answer is not in your library, it should say so.
- It runs on your device. Your question and your saves are not sent to a server to be answered.
On Mac, the shortcut is Shift Command L.
Questions that work well
- "What was the ramen place near the station called?"
- "Which standing desks did I look at, and what did they cost?"
- "What did I note about the landlord's phone call?"
- "Do I have anything about replacing a bike chain?"
They have something in common: each can be answered from one or a few saves, and each names its subject plainly.
Questions that work less well
- Anything needing the whole library at once. "What do I save most?" is a statistic, not a question about content.
- Anything the saves do not contain. A link you saved but whose page could not be read has little to offer.
- Judgement calls. "Which of these should I buy?" will get you a summary of what you saved, not advice worth trusting.
Always look at the sources
A language model can be wrong, and it can be wrong fluently. That is why the sources matter more than the answer. Treat the answer as a pointer: it tells you which two saves to open. For anything that counts, such as a date, a price or an address, check it in the original.
What you need
Ask Your Library uses Apple Intelligence, so it needs a device that supports it. On other devices the rest of Stashy works as usual, including ordinary search. See which devices run on-device summaries.
When to use search instead
If you know a word that is in the thing you want, search is faster. It looks through titles, summaries and hidden keywords and shows the matches as you type. Asking is for when you can describe what you need but cannot name it. More in how to find a link you saved months ago.