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Write and edit pages with Dana

Updated Oct 18, 2026

Dana, Atwork's AI assistant, writes in the page editor. Ask it for new text where your cursor is, or select text and have it rewritten in place.

Draft new text

  1. Put the cursor where the text should go.
  2. Type / and choose Ask Dana, the first item in the menu. Typing /ask or /ai finds it too.
  3. Type what you want into Ask Dana to write something… and press Enter.

Dana writes into a new block below the cursor. Esc closes the box without asking.

To draft a whole page, do the same on an empty page: "A kickoff agenda for the Kestrel Foods rebrand: goals, scope, timeline, who does what, open questions."

Rewrite selected text

Select text and click Ask Dana in the formatting toolbar, then pick an action:

  • Rewrite
  • Make shorter
  • Make longer
  • Fix grammar
  • Translate…, then Persian, English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Chinese or Japanese, or Other… to type a language

Or type your own instruction into Custom prompt…, such as "make this friendlier for the client" or "turn this into three bullet points".

What happens to the text you selected?

Dana writes the new text straight into the page, over the text you selected. Press Esc while it is writing to stop and keep your original text.

  • Whole paragraphs selected: the new text comes in as full paragraphs, so it can have headings, lists and bold.
  • Part of a paragraph selected: only that part is replaced, as plain text. The rest of the paragraph keeps its formatting.

What does Dana see?

Dana reads the page around your cursor, up to about 8,000 characters, so it can match what is already there. When the page belongs to a record, such as a task's description, it also reads that record's fields. It sees only what you can see.

In the editor, Dana only writes text. It does not change records, create tasks or look things up elsewhere in your workspace. Ask in the Dana sidebar for that. See Meet Dana, your AI assistant.

Where can you use it?

  • Pages in a space, and the page sections on a space's home.
  • Document fields on records, such as a task's description.
  • Goal documents.

The Ask Dana button also appears in the toolbar when you write a comment or an Inbox message.

Is this saved as a conversation?

No. Requests from the editor do not appear in your conversations with Dana.

Does it use the AI budget?

Yes. Every request draws on your workspace's monthly AI budget. If Dana writes nothing and your text goes back to how it was, the budget may have run out: ask a workspace owner to check it. See The AI budget.

Related: Meet Dana, your AI assistant · Insights: ask Dana about a sheet · The AI budget

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