Daily Use: Turn WorkBuddy into Your Office Sidekick
💡 Goal: Finish 6 lessons in about 66 minutes, after which you can handle daily operations without a guide—tuning a task across multiple turns until satisfied, managing your task list, feeding in materials via voice and files, switching execution modes by scenario, and understanding where your credits go.
This section covers how to use WorkBuddy: in 6 lessons, we walk through all the basic operations in the WorkBuddy interface—how to steer conversations, manage tasks, feed in materials, choose modes and models, and spend credits.
In Quick Start, you already got your first task running: one sentence in, deliverables out. But between "it works" and "using it smoothly every day" there is still a layer of daily practice to build—once you fill that in, WorkBuddy goes from "an app I installed" to an office sidekick you genuinely open every day.
🎯 Stage Goals
- Be able to make multi-turn adjustments to a task: change requirements, roll back to an earlier turn and rerun, instead of "starting over entirely when unsatisfied"
- Be able to manage an ever-growing pile of tasks: filter by status, global search, archiving and batch operations
- Be able to pick the right execution mode and model for the scenario, and understand where every credit goes and how to save them
⏳ Estimated Time
- 6 lessons total about 66 minutes, about 46–86 minutes with buffer time
- Each lesson takes 10–12 minutes and stands on its own—easy to fit into fragments of time, one lesson a day
- Just want to solve one thing first (like "why did my credits run out so fast")? Jump straight to 2.6 Credits and Pricing; it won't affect the other lessons
🚀 Before You Start
- Completed 1.4 First Task: can create a new task and find the deliverables WorkBuddy produced in the results panel on the right
- WorkBuddy client is logged in and can chat normally; if you're stuck on installation or login, first read 1.3 What to Do If Installation Fails
- A cup of water ☕—each lesson is short, but finishing them all in a row takes a bit over an hour
📚 Lessons in This Stage
The 6 lessons are independent of each other, arranged as "steer → manage → feed → choose → calculate", covering the most frequently used WorkBuddy features in daily work; feel free to read selectively:
| Lesson | Content | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1 Conversation Advanced | Multi-turn adjustments, rollback and regeneration, message queue, referencing text / tables / components | 12 minutes |
| 2.2 Task Management | Six task statuses, global search, archiving and batch operations, space management | 10 minutes |
| 2.3 Input Methods Explained | Voice input, audio-to-text, file uploads and supported formats, prompt templates, slash commands | 10 minutes |
| 2.4 Three Execution Modes | How to choose among Default (Agent), Plan, and Ask-only; two permission levels | 10 minutes |
| 2.5 Model Selection and Customization | Fast / Balanced / Max three tiers, 14 built-in models, API Key and Ollama integration | 12 minutes |
| 2.6 Credits and Pricing | Free quota, four plan tiers, top-up packs and refunds, money-saving tips | 12 minutes |
💡 Short on time?
The official advice for beginners is: first practice stating requirements clearly, then practice step-by-step progress and multi-turn adjustments; back up real files first, and only then move on to remote and automation. Mapped to this section: 2.1 Conversation Advanced (multi-turn adjustments) is most worth learning first; 2.6 Credits and Pricing determines your cost of use, so read it early; the rest can be read selectively as needed.
🎒 What You'll Gain
- A complete grammar of daily operations: steering (conversation), managing (tasks), feeding (input), choosing (modes and models)
- Understand how credits are deducted and how much free quota you have—no more "suddenly running out of credits mid-use"
- Lay the groundwork for the next section: once multi-turn adjustments are second nature, the requirement-stating methodology and scheduled tasks in Efficient Workflows will be much easier to use