You can bring a document that is not in the case file into the panel to talk about it: an email that has just arrived, the other side's draft, a photo of a paper. JUDLEX reads Word, Excel, PDF, emails and images.
Bringing it into the conversation
There are three ways:
Drag it onto the panel. While you hold it over the panel, the panel says Drop it to read it here.
Click the paperclip next to the send button and choose it.
Paste an image into the typing box, for example a screenshot.
The document enters the conversation straight away and appears above the typing box, with its pages. Pages with their own text are read as they are; scanned pages and images are looked at by the artificial intelligence, which says so with I look at it or I look at … of them.
What it is and what it is not
With a case file open, above the documents it says In this conversation · unsaved, no exhibit, not citable. That is the difference from an exhibit: JUDLEX can talk about it, but it has no code or folio, and it cannot be used as a citation from the case file.
While a document is in the conversation, it goes along with every question you ask. If you no longer need it, remove it with the X on its card, or with remove all. Removing it does not delete the file from your computer.
Saving it
Each document's three-dot menu offers to save it:
Save as reference material: saves a copy in the vault's Miscellaneous folder. It is for things you want to keep without them belonging to any matter, such as a model pleading or a circular: it has no exhibit or folio and cannot be cited.
Add to the case file, only with a case file open: it is evidence in the matter. It is copied into the vault, under Originals. Once it is classified, it will have an exhibit number and a folio and can be cited: Add papers to a matter.
An image pasted from the clipboard cannot be saved, because it is not a file. If you want to keep it, save it on your computer first and drag it in.