Cohere assistant for Zoho Writer

Cohere Extension to Enhance Your Writing

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Before you install this extension, please make sure you have an account for using the Cohere bot.
To use this extension from Zoho Writer:
  1. Install it from the Zoho Marketplace
  2. Authorize it using a Secret Key generated using your Open AI account

Installing the extension  

1. Login to Zoho Marketplace and navigate to the Writer extensions page.
2. Locate the Cohere extension and click it. Or, you can search for the extension using its name, "Cohere Assistant for Zoho Writer", to directly go to the extension's page.
3. Once you are on the extension's page, click Install.
4. In the Confirm Installation page, read and accept the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service of the vendor and Zoho Marketplace, and click Install to complete the installation.
5. You will now be able to see the "Cohere Assistant Installed Successfully" message. Click the Take me to Writer button to open a Writer document.
6. In the Writer editor, click the Extensions icon located at the right corner of the editor, and click the Cohere extension.
7. You will have to enter a secret key generated using your Cohere account here, to link it to this extension. This key will be used to confirm your identity during all your interactions with the Cohere bot.

Generating secret key 

To generate a secret key,
  1. Click the Learn more link on the page, or go to the Cohere API keys page.
  2. Login and click the "Create new secret key" button to generate a new key.
  3. Copy the secret key and paste it in the API Key field in the Cohere extension page in Writer and click Access.
 That's it! You can start interacting with the Cohere bot right from within Writer now.

Deleting the secret key from the extension  

1. Open a Writer document, click the hamburger icon, go to Extensions tab, and select the Cohere extension.
2. Click the settings icon located beside the close icon in the Cohere extension, and click the Delete button. This will clear your secret key from the extension.
Notes
Note: You can also hide or uninstall the extension completely whenever required using these steps.

Using the Cohere extension  

You can use this extension to:
  1. Interact with the bot and generate a response
  2. Insert the response in your document
  3. Regenerate a response

 Steps  

1. Login to Zoho Writer and open a new document or the document that you wish to work on.
2. Click click the Extensions icon located at the right corner of the editor, and click the Cohere extension.
3. To generate and insert a response in your document:
  1.  Click the prompts drop-down menu to select the desired prompt and provide the input in the textbox below it. For example, if you wish to create an article on a topic, select the "Generate Content" prompt. Or, if you need to summarize your blog, select "Summarize" from the menu.
  2. Click the blue arrow to generate a response.
  3. After generation, click the insert icon in the bottom right of the window to insert the response in your document. The content will be inserted in current cursor position.


4. To regenerate a response
    Click the Regenerate link if you wish to generate another version of the response.
5. To clear the current conversations
     Click the Clear link located within the input textbox.
6. To check content for plagiarism using the Cohere extension,
  1. Click the prompts drop-down menu and select Detect Plagiarism.
  2. Select the content in your document and click inside the text box to paste the input.
  3. Click the blue arrow to initiate the plagiarism check.

Response Settings

You can tailor how Cohere generates responses by adjusting the following settings:
  1. Model: Choose the Cohere model that best fits your use case (e.g., command-r, command-r+). Each model offers a different balance of speed, quality, and reasoning.
  2. Max Tokens: Set the maximum number of tokens in the output. This helps you control the length of responses and manage costs or response time.
  3. Temperature: Adjust the temperature to fine-tune the creativity and variability in the responses.
    1. Lower values (e.g., 0.2) produce more precise, predictable outputs.
    2. Higher values (e.g., 0.8) generate more expressive, creative language.

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