Writing style & learning

Open Settings → Writing style. At the top is Veda writes as you: one line built from what Veda has learned, or from your About you answers until it has learned anything. Click Edit (or Tell Veda about you the first time) to change your answers. Below it are Learning and Rules — what Veda has learned from your edits, each rule with its own switch.

#About you

Pick what fits; skip anything you like. Tap a selected pill again to clear it.

• What do you do? — Developer, Designer, Product/Manager, Founder, Sales, Support, Marketing, Student, Teacher or Other.
• Who do you usually write to? — any of Teammates, Clients, Managers, Customers, Friends.
• Reply length — Short, Balanced or Detailed.
• Languages you write in — pick any, or + Add your own. Mixed languages are kept as you write them.

There is no tone or emoji pick. Veda learns how you sound from the drafts you edit, and a tone chosen from a list pulled it the wrong way more often than it helped.

#How learning works

Veda learns from your edits. After Veda puts text in a field, it keeps an eye on that field for about a minute. If you change its wording before sending, what you actually sent is saved as a sample — "this is how I'd put it." Text Veda wrote that you sent unchanged isn't learned from, so Veda never learns from itself. Very short snippets and pasted documents are skipped.

Once enough new samples have built up — 20 by default — Veda turns what it noticed into short rules in one AI call: "Open chat messages without a greeting", "Sign emails with just my first name", "Say 'PR', not 'pull request'". The rules go into every later request, so it gets closer to you over time.

The Learning card shows how many edits Veda has saved and how many more until it updates. Learn now runs a pass straight away. The Learning switch turns learning off entirely; Veda keeps what it already knows.

#Rules

Everything Veda knows about how you write, one line each:

• Learned from your edits · seen 3× — Veda wrote it. Each time a learning pass finds the same thing again it counts once more; when your edits go against it a few times, Veda switches it off.
• Stated by you — you typed it. Learning never rewrites these, and they win over anything learned.

Every rule has a switch: turn one off and Veda stops following it without forgetting it. Hover a rule to delete it.

To add one, type a single line in Add a rule and press Return — "No exclamation marks", "Sign emails as Alex, never Alexander", "Keep ticket IDs and code exactly as typed". Keep each rule to one thing; a long paragraph of instructions is exactly what the old free-text box did badly. Some rules apply only in one place — "in Slack", "to Sharib" — and Veda shows where.

If you wrote rules in the old Your rules box, they were moved into this list as stated rules, one per line, the first time this version opened.

#Settings on this page

Under Details:

• Your name — add other names or @handles after commas, so Veda can tell your messages from theirs.
• Reply in their language and My language — see Reply in their language.
• Update after — how many new edits before Veda refreshes what it knows, from 5 to 100.

Veda never learns from password managers, or from any app you exclude from memory on the Privacy page.

Veda always picks the tone — casual, friendly-professional or professional — by reading the app and the conversation, then applies your rules on top.

#Starting over

From the … menu next to What Veda has learned (shown until the first rules arrive): Reset what Veda learned removes the learned rules and starts again, keeping what you stated; Forget saved edits deletes the saved samples, keeping the rules.

To wipe everything Veda has learned in one go, use Forget everything learned on the Privacy page. About you and the rules you stated stay.

#Where it lives

About you, the rules and the samples are files in ~/Library/Application Support/Veda/ on a Mac and %LocalAppData%\Packages\GetVeda.GetVeda_2nqztxbbpya6j\LocalState\ on Windows (Show folder on the Privacy page opens it). Samples are sent to the AI only during a learning pass, to write the rules; after that, the rules travel inside each request. None of it is kept on Veda's server.

Learning passes don't count towards your AI requests.