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Mar 3, 2023
Introducing Explore with Pieces Insights π
Today, weβre launching a brand-new feature for Pieces for VS Code: Explore with Pieces Insights. Understand and Document code more quickly than ever!
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Today, weβre launching a brand-new feature for the Pieces for Developers VS Code Extension: Explore with Pieces Insights. This feature will help developers of all skill levels understand new codebases more quickly, easily document their code, and help large teams to collaborate by writing clear, helpful comments. Check it out β¬οΈ
Explore with Pieces Insights
Thereβs a new functionality of the Pieces for Developers VS Code Extension in town! Exploring Materials with Pieces Insights allows you to learn more about a code snippet without saving it to your repository.
To Explore a material:
Highlight a code snippet in your editor
Right-click and select βExplore with Pieces Insightsβ or hit [Shift+Alt+E] (Windows)/[Shift+Option+E] (MacOS)
Click the βView Insightsβ success message in the lower right corner of your editor
Pieces will open a new window with a markdown file that showcases your snippet, its description, and other associated metadata.

To revisit explored materials, check out the new section titled βExplored Materials & Snippet Insightsβ in the Extension Tree View. Here, you can view your explored materials, save them to Pieces, or delete themβ just right-click.
If youβd like to automatically save your explored materials to your Pieces repository, toggle on βExplore and Saveβ in your extension settings.
Note: In order to Explore Materials, you must be connected to your Pieces Cloud.
Document with Pieces Insights
Are you loving the Pieces-generated explanations of your Explored Materials? You can automatically insert those descriptions as comments above the explored material!

By default, the Pieces for VS Code Extension will automatically add comments of the description above your Explored Materials. To turn this off, uncheck βDocument with Pieces Insightsβ in the Extension settings.

Join our Beta Testing Program
Do you want to try the newest features before theyβre released? Do you want to make a difference in Piecesβ development? Sign up for our Beta Testing Program!
Support
As always, if you run into issues or have feedback, please fill out this quick form or email us at support@pieces.app and weβll be in touch as soon as possible!
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