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The built-in assistant

Say what you did at the painting desk and let it do the paperwork.

The Assistant is a chat built into Hobby Double. Tell it what you did at the painting desk in your own words and it makes the changes for you: no forms, and no AI account of your own needed.

The Assistant is in beta and switched on account by account while we see how it gets used. If you can see Assistant in the menu, it is on for you.

Tell it what you painted

  1. Open Assistant from the menu.
  2. Type, or use your phone keyboard's microphone, something like "did an hour and a half on the assault troopers, they're all primed now".
  3. Press Send. It finds the unit, logs the session and moves the unit on, then says what it did.

Each change appears as a card under the reply, with a View link to the project, unit or recipe it touched, so you can check it at a glance. If more than one unit could match what you said, it asks which one you meant rather than guessing.

The Assistant chat: a session logged, a stage changed, and a recipe saved with three steps, each shown as a cardThe same chat on a phone
Logging a session and saving a recipe, on a laptop and a phone.

What it can do

  • Log painting: record a session on a unit or project, and move units to a new stage ("the cavalry are based").
  • Post updates: it drafts a title and text for a progress update and posts it once you say it looks right, or edits one you have already posted.
  • Projects and units: start a new project, add units to it ("ten spearmen and a command squad"), or change their details.
  • Recipes: write a recipe down step by step as you describe it. It looks up each paint in your rack by name, and can change or reorder steps later.
  • Paints and materials: add a pot you've just bought, mark one as running low or out ("I'm out of grey primer"), or change its details.
  • Shopping list: tell you what you need from each shop, and tick things off as ordered.
  • Answer questions: what's left to prime on a project, how long you've spent on a unit, or what's in a recipe.

It can't delete anything. Do that in the app.

Limits and privacy

Each account has a number of messages a day, shown under the message box. The conversation lasts until you close the tab or press New chat. Your messages, and the project, unit and recipe details it looks up to answer them, are sent to Anthropic's Claude to work out what to do, as set out in the Privacy Policy. It can make mistakes, so glance at the cards.

Already use an AI assistant of your own? You can connect it to Hobby Double instead, and it can do everything the app can.

Screenshots show a sample account. Every name in them, from units and factions to paint brands and shops, is made up for these guides.