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The Riff manual.
Every move Riff makes, one short page each: installing, replying to posts, answering your DMs, every dial, and the fixes for when something sticks.
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Start here.
Four pages take you from install to your first reply, on a post or in a chat.
- 1Install Riff and pin itAdd Riff to Chrome, pin it to the toolbar and refresh the tabs you already had open.
- 2Download Gemini Nano (one-time setup)The one-time model download, how long it takes, and what the status pill is telling you.
- 3Reply to a post on XPick the post, add your point, press Enter and insert the reply. You press Reply.
- 4Answer a LinkedIn messageLinkedIn Messaging and the chat pop-ups: Riff reads the conversation and drafts the next message.
Your DMs, too.
Riff answers LinkedIn messages, Messenger chats on facebook.com and Instagram DMs. Click into a chat's message box and it reads the conversation; your point is optional, and it never says yes to a time or a price for you.
- Answer a LinkedIn messageLinkedIn Messaging and the chat pop-ups: Riff reads the conversation and drafts the next message.
- Answer a Messenger chat on facebook.comChat pop-ups and facebook.com/messages: casual replies, pasted in one go.
- Answer an Instagram DMInstagram Direct on the desktop site: short replies that match how they write.
- How DM replies differ from post repliesOptional point, no deciding for you, greetings, matching their style, and follow-ups.
- Nudge someone who hasn't answeredWhen your message is the latest one, Riff writes a short, friendly follow-up.
Browse by topic.
41 pages in 8 sections, in the order you'll meet them.
Get started
5 pagesInstall Riff, download Gemini Nano once, open the panel and teach it your voice.
Reply to a post
10 pagesPick a post, add your point, riff, rework and insert on X, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
Answer a DM
5 pagesNew in 0.2.4New in 0.2.4: LinkedIn messages, Messenger on facebook.com and Instagram Direct.
The dials
6 pagesPitch, intelligence, sales tactic, spin, tone, length, emoji, language and your link.
Library and Voice
4 pagesYour links, saved points and backups, and the guards that keep every draft clean.
Privacy and how it works
3 pagesWhat stays on your computer, why you always press send, and the four stages behind every riff.
Troubleshooting
6 pagesA missing wave button, a box Riff can't reach, a chat it doesn't pick up, AI unavailable.
Reference
2 pagesEvery keyboard shortcut, and every limit and length, site by site.
By site.
Riff writes like the site you're on. Here's where each one is covered.
X
Posts and threads, 280 characters
LinkedIn
Feed posts and Messaging
Facebook
Posts, groups and Messenger
Instagram
Posts and Instagram Direct
Still stuck?
Copy diagnostics in Voice makes a report of what Riff sees on the open tab, with no post or message text, ready to paste into a support request.