Getting Started
- What is M-Files?
- What is Metadata?
- Intro to the M-Files Interface
- Accessing M-Files
- M-Files Terminology
- Saving Documents with Metadata
- Introduction to Metadata Cards
- How to Save Documents
- Finding Information with Metadata
- How to Use Quick Search
- Organizing with Views
- How to Use Views
- How to Use the Pinned Tab
- The M-Files Way to Collaborate
- How to Modify Documents
- How to Share Documents
M-Files Products
- Introduction to M-Files Mobile Application
- Introduction to M-Files Hubshare
- Introduction to M-Files for Microsoft Teams
- Introduction to M-Files Aino AI Assistant
Beyond Basics
- Grouping Information
- Creating Views in M-Files
- Search Options
- How To Create Document Collections
- How to Create Multi-File Documents
- How To Create Relationships Between Objects
Tips and Tricks
- How to Create and Complete Assignments
- How to Create Notifications in M-Files
- How to Use and Create Document Templates
- How To Use Offline Mode in M-Files
- How to Change the Default Check-In Functionality
- How to Use Workflows in M-Files
- Permissions in M-Files
- How to Convert Documents to PDF Format
- How to Avoid Creating Duplicate Content in M-Files
- How to Co-Author Documents with Office 365

Introduction to M-Files Aino AI Assistant
M-Files Aino is an AI assistant designed to simplify your daily tasks by helping you interact with documents and metadata more efficiently.
M-Files Aino can
- answer questions about documents and their contents
- summarize documents
- extract metadata from document contents and help you fill in the metadata card
- discover related documents linked to the topics you’re searching for
How to use M-Files Aino
Let’s look at an example. Imagine you’re a general manager who needs to review ISO standard requirements. Rather than reading the entire document yourself, M-Files Aino can extract and summarize the key points specifically relevant to general managers.
M-Files Aino can look for answers in a single document, or a collection of documents such as views, referenced objects, or even the entire vault.
M-Files Aino is not a traditional search engine; it only provides links to the sources that it has used to form its response. It should not be expected to respond with a comprehensive list of results.
M-Files Aino is conversational and saves your chat history, allowing it to reference previous questions and responses for more consistent answers.

If you have a new question you want M-Files Aino to answer, it’s better to start a new chat to get relevant responses.
By extracting metadata from document contents, M-Files Aino saves you time, lowers the barrier for adding new documents, and improves the quality and quantity of metadata. This, in turn, improves the findability, permission management, and workflows of documents in the vault.
M-Files Aino can read, understand, and interact in many languages, and will respond in the language of your question. If you’re working with documents written in a different language than yours, M-Files Aino will help you with the contents by giving you answers in your language.
M-Files Aino cannot translate the document, but it can help you understand what the document is about.
With M-Files Aino, information in M-Files becomes an easily accessible knowledge bank. Summarizing documents saves time, enabling you to process information more quickly. Interacting with natural language also makes information management tasks feel easier and more enjoyable.