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Companion Integrations
Companion Integrations
Integrations are apps that extend what your Companions can do. They connect Strawberry to external tools and services, giving your Companions new abilities.
What Integrations Are
Think of integrations as apps for your Companion. Just like apps on your phone give you new capabilities, integrations give your Companion new ways to help you.
For example:
- A calendar integration lets your Companion check your schedule and add events
- A notes integration lets your Companion save information to your note-taking app
- A communication integration lets your Companion draft messages or summarize conversations
How Companions Use Integrations
When you ask your Companion to do something that requires an external tool, it uses the appropriate integration automatically.
For example:
- "What is on my calendar today?" → Uses calendar integration
- "Save this summary to my notes" → Uses notes integration
- "Send this as an email" → Uses email integration
Your Companion knows which integration to use based on what you ask.
When to Use Integrations
Use integrations when you want to:
- Connect to external services (calendar, notes, email, etc.)
- Perform actions outside the browser
- Bring external data into your Companion conversations
Use normal chat when you want to:
- Understand or analyze the webpage you are on
- Get answers to questions
- Have a conversation without external tools
Use workflows when you want to:
- Automate multi-step tasks
- Run actions on a schedule
- Monitor pages and respond to changes
Integrations, chat, and workflows work together. You might chat with your Companion about a page, use an integration to save key findings, and then set up a workflow to monitor the page for updates.
Next, we will look at where integrations live and how to access them.