Finding Sources & Images with AI
Ask AI to search the web, save the pages it reads to your materials, and generate images — all without leaving your draft.
Last updated: June 23, 2026
Good writing usually needs more than words — facts to back it up, and sometimes a picture. You can ask the AI chat for both while you write, and it keeps what it finds where you can reuse it.
Search the web, with sources you can check
Ask the AI to look something up, and it searches the web for you. Crucially, it shows you the sources behind its answer — a list of pages with titles and links — so you can open them and check for yourself rather than taking the AI's word for it.
Pages it reads are saved for you
When the AI opens a web page to read it in full, that page is saved to your materials library automatically. You don't have to copy anything down — later, you can pull it back into the chat with an @ reference and keep building on the same source.
→ See Organizing Your Work for how your materials library works.
Generate an image
Need a visual? Describe what you want and ask the AI to create it. The generated image comes back in the conversation, ready to use in your article.
The AI may ask you a question
If your request is missing something it needs — an audience, a length, an angle — the AI may ask you a quick question before it continues, instead of guessing. Answer it and it picks up where it left off.
A note on cost
Searching, reading pages, and generating images all spend star power, the same as any AI action. If something stops responding, check your balance first.
Where to go next
- Organizing Your Work — where saved sources and images live.
- Letting AI Rewrite Your Draft — work your new facts into the text.