Introducing Tab Instinct

Introducing Coline Tab Instinct

Coline Tab Instinct is our new model inside Coline that predicts where you are going next. It watches how you move throughout Coline, understands what you just changed, and quietly lines up the next move for you.

Instead of treating each field or surface in Coline as separate, Tab Instinct looks at the whole workflow and quietly highlights the next place that should get your attention.

Paired with Coline Tab, our inline autocomplete, Tab Instinct turns your work into one continuous motion. It moves you to the next field just as you finish the last, while Coline Tab fills in the words you were about to type. You stay on the keyboard; the rest of the UI keeps up.

The Navigation Problem

You type a task title. Click the description field. Type a description. Click the due date. Pick a date. Click assignees. Select a person. Click priority. Choose high.

That's seven clicks just to create one task.

Every click pulls you a little out of what you were doing. Every mouse move is a tiny pause. The pattern is the same every time, but your tools still make you drive the UI by hand, over and over again.

At some point it felt obvious: if the pattern is the same every time, the app should be able to line up the next step for you.

What is Tab Instinct?

Tab Instinct quietly keeps track of where you are in your work and what still needs your attention. As you finish one thing, our model predicts what you want to do next.

On screen, that just shows up as a faint hint. Press Tab and you're there. If Coline Tab has a text suggestion visible for the field you are in, Tab accepts the suggestion first and then Tab Instinct takes over to move you forward.

One example: creating a task

Here is how it feels in one common case, creating a task. The same effortless Tab pattern shows up when you are editing events, notes, and boards too.

1. Type your task title: "Fix authentication bug in login flow"
2. Press Tab (Instinct): Jump to the description field
3. Start typing: Coline Tab remembers the login bug from your earlier conversation and suggests "The login form throws a 401..."
4. Press Tab (Coline Tab): Accept the completion
5. Press Tab (Instinct): Jump to priority and set it to High in a single keypress, because the model has already predicted you'll want to treat this as urgent.

How It Knows

Tab Instinct is not picking at random. It looks at a few simple signals and chooses a reasonable next step:

• What you just did: The last thing you changed or interacted with.
• What is done vs not: Parts that are already filled in versus places you have not touched yet.
• Where you are: Whether you are working on a task, event, note, or something else inside Coline.
• Your habits over time: The small patterns in how you tend to move through your work.

On top of those signals, Tab Instinct keeps a simple confidence score so it only steps in when it is likely to help.

The Confidence System

Tab Instinct is not always right, and that is okay. It only surfaces a prediction when it is confident enough; otherwise it stays out of the way and lets you move around like you normally would.

This means you never fight the AI. When it suggests something, it is usually right, and when it is not sure, it steps aside. The more you use it, the better its guesses line up with how you like to work.

Built for Speed

Prediction means nothing if it is slow. Tab Instinct is built for real-time, so the help it offers always feels like it is arriving just ahead of you:

• Optimized inference: We run a custom in-house model tuned for minimal latency and high-quality suggestions in the moment.
• Predictions at the right moments: It waits until you finish to suggest its move, so it feels fast without feeling noisy.
• Instant response: The prediction appears before your finger leaves the keyboard.

Privacy First

Tab Instinct has to see a little bit of what you are working on to be helpful. We treat that as borrowed, not owned.

• Just-in-time processing: Your field content is sent for prediction in the moment and discarded as soon as we get a response.
• No training on your content
• Anonymous signals only: We track simple accept or dismiss and latency numbers to improve the system, never the text itself.

If you already rely on Coline Tab, Tab Instinct follows the same privacy standards.

Where It Works

Tab Instinct will work anywhere you edit in Coline on the web and desktop app. As it rolls out over the next week, you will see it move you from field to field in tasks, events, notes, boards, and more.

Keyboard Controls

Tab Instinct respects your keyboard-first workflow:

• Tab - Accept the prediction and jump to the field
• Escape - Dismiss the prediction
• Click elsewhere - Prediction clears automatically

If Coline Tab has a text suggestion visible, Tab accepts that first. Coline Tab always takes priority.

The Vision

Tab Instinct is part of our larger vision for Coline: an app that works with you, not one you work in.

We believe the best productivity tools are invisible. They anticipate what you need. They remove friction you did not even know existed. They let you focus on your work, not on operating the software.

Coline Tab handles your words. Tab Instinct handles your navigation. Together, they help Coline fade into the background so you can stay with your work.