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Suggestions and review mode

Which AI changes apply right away, which wait for your approval, and where to review them.

Two kinds of AI change happen in your workspace: the ones you ask for in a conversation, and the ones Banter proposes on its own while it maintains your notes in the background. By default, the first kind applies immediately and the second waits for you. Suggestions is where waiting changes get reviewed; Settings is where you change the balance.

The switches

Open Settings → Preferences → Suggestions:

SettingDefaultWhat it controls
Background suggestionsOnWhether Banter reviews your notes in the background at all: improvements and filing.
Auto-apply knowledge base improvementsOffWhether those background proposals apply on their own. Off means you review them first.
Auto-accept edits from Banter agentOnWhether changes you ask the assistant for apply immediately. Off means they wait for review.
Auto-accept edits from MCP tool callsOnThe same, for AI clients connected over MCP such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Codex.

The auto-accept switches cover edits, moves, Trash actions, and instruction changes. Turning one on also applies that source’s pending suggestions.

Where suggestions appear

While anything needs review, a Suggestions row appears at the top of the sidebar, beside Quick Notes and All Notes, with a count; the Folders icon in the left rail and the affected note or folder carry badges too. Open it and the queue splits into Needs review and Reviewed.

Reviewing one

A pending suggestion opens as the note itself, with the proposed changes marked inline, Banter’s reason, and the proposed folder if it’s a move. Edit the proposal if you like, then:

  • Apply — accept it; what you see is what lands.
  • Revise… — keep the note or its location as it is, or Send & revise with feedback to get a new proposal.
  • Dismiss — drop it; the note is untouched.

A suggestion nobody acts on expires after seven days. Reviewed history stays visible for 30 days.

When you ask the assistant for a change

With Auto-accept edits from Banter agent on, the assistant makes the change and the chat shows a receipt — Edited “Acme account plan” — linking to the note. Turn it off and the same request shows Suggested edit to … and waits in Suggestions until you apply it. Connected MCP clients follow their own switch the same way.