What Is a Project?

A working folder for a research topic

A project brings together conversations and materials about one topic. For example, “Solid-State Battery Literature Review” might include search conversations, method comparisons, candidate papers, parsed PDF text, notes, and illustrations.

Each project retains its own context. Project materials can be reused in later research, but you should still specify which content you want analyzed in your question.

A conversation’s project is set when it is created

Before sending a new conversation, you can choose a project or keep it standalone. After creation, it retains that association. Browsing another project, changing file filters, or adding a material to a project does not automatically move the conversation.

To place subsequent work in another project, select that project in a new conversation and add existing materials as needed.

Expanding a project does not switch the content

The project sidebar is for browsing conversations. Clicking a project's name, icon, or empty space in its row expands or collapses the conversation list. Your current conversation, draft, and content area stay unchanged. The content switches only when you click a specific conversation.

Files can be saved independently

PDF parsing records belong to your personal account and do not require selecting a project first. Search, drawing requests, and material processing in research mode can also start in standalone conversations.

Saving a tool result to project materials is an explicit action: select the result, click “Add to Project Materials,” and choose a target project. Once a version is saved, later changes to the original result do not silently replace the version already referenced.

The legacy full writing and drawing editors still use projects as indicated on their pages. Their requirements do not apply to every tool.

When to create a project

• You will keep researching a topic and need to revisit several conversations.
• You want a selected set of materials to be available for reuse in later research.
• You want to organize files in Personal Space by paper, research topic, or presentation.

You can complete a one-off search or temporary parsing task independently and organize it later.