How do I ask Charyl good questions?

Charyl works best with the same kind of question you’d ask someone who actually lives in the house with you: specific, and about one thing.

Name the room, the item, or the document you mean, rather than describing your whole house at once. “What do I own in the kitchen” gets a cleaner answer than “tell me about my stuff.” If you don’t remember exactly what you called something, plain language still works — she can usually find “the dishwasher” even if it’s filed under its brand name.

Ask one thing at a time. A message that bundles three separate requests together is harder for her to act on cleanly than three short messages in a row.

When she’s missing a detail she needs, she asks you one clarifying question rather than guess and draft something wrong. Answering it is usually faster than starting over.

If you’re not sure where to begin, Things to try is a grouped list of prompts that are known to work, or see What should I try first?