Ask Anything: how to get instant answers from whatever is on your screen

The real cost of typing your question

A small moment happens dozens of times a day: something confusing appears—an error, graph, contract clause, or image—and the instinct is to open a new tab, paste it into an AI chat, and type what you are looking at.

That costs more than it seems. Before asking anything, you have to translate what is in front of you into words. That is hardest precisely when you are already confused. Formatting and visual context disappear, and every new-tab, paste, type, wait, and switch-back cycle taxes the work you were doing.

The problem is not that AI is slow to answer. The interface between you and the answer is slower than it needs to be.

What Ask Anything actually does

Ask Anything removes the translation step. Instead of describing what is confusing, select it. Instead of typing your question, say it.

1. Select what is confusing. Drag a box around an error, formula, paragraph, chart, or anything visible.
2. Speak your question. Use the shortcut you set in Preferences and ask the way you would ask a person beside you.
3. Get the answer inline. No new tab, no upload, and no re-describing what was already visible.

The value is not that the answer becomes magically smarter. It is that asking for it costs almost nothing.

Where this is useful

• Debugging. Keep the formatting and surrounding context of an error or stack trace intact.
• Dense reading. Ask about one formula, paper paragraph, or legal clause instead of summarizing the whole document.
• Charts and dashboards. Point at multiple axes, an unlabeled trend, or an unfamiliar report and ask what it shows.
• Unclear visual context. Ask about a diagram without a legend, an old photo, or even a meme you do not get.

Common objections

“I can just copy and paste into ChatGPT.” For plain text, yes. For charts, formatted errors, formulas, and images, copy-paste either loses information or turns into manual re-description. Selection already provides the object of the question.

“Speaking feels slower than typing.” For a paragraph, perhaps. For “what does this mean?” or “why is this failing?”, speech is usually faster and skips prompt composition.

“I do not want to talk out loud at my desk.” That is a real constraint. Use the feature where it fits: a home office, headphones on, or a quick question between meetings. It does not need to replace every screen interaction.

Where Loqua fits

Ask Anything is one part of Loqua’s context-aware voice workflow for Mac and Windows. It starts from a simple idea: speaking is often the fastest way to move an idea from your head to your screen, whether that idea is a full email or a two-word question about a chart.