The Ask panel in the shell is a conversation, and it moves on.

An Ask cell is a question you keep, on the page, next to the reason you asked it.

The placeholder says what makes it different.

Ask these sources a question.

These sources: the ones on this page.

Under an empty cell it offers starting points, drawn from what this notebook holds.

Choose one and it fills the box, ready for you to change.

Type your own instead.

While it works the cell says Reading your sources.

The answer arrives with chips underneath.

Chips group per source item, so six passages from one piece make one chip with a count on it.

You can see at a glance how widely it read.

Click one and it deep-links into the reader at the cited paragraph.

The chip is the way back.

Scroll away and back and the cell is where you left it, dated, question, answer and citations intact.

It draws on the same answer allowance as the Ask panel.

Same machinery, kept in a different place.

A question sitting between the paragraph that prompted it and whatever you wrote next.