Folders: Scope a Conversation to One Set of Documents
Group documents and point a conversation at one group, so a question about your thesis is not answered out of your tax paperwork.
A folder groups documents and conversations that belong to the same thing — and, more usefully, scopes what a conversation is allowed to draw on.
The problem it solves
Once you have imported a few dozen documents, a single shared index starts producing answers assembled from the wrong places. Semantic search is happy to find a superficially similar passage in your tax paperwork when you asked about your thesis, and a small model will use whatever it is handed. Scoping the conversation to a folder removes the possibility rather than hoping the retrieval gets it right.
How you would use it
One folder per project, per course, per client, per legal matter. The conversations about that project live in it, the documents it may cite live in it, and questions asked inside it cannot wander.
Separation, not security
Worth being precise: a folder is an organisational boundary, not an encryption boundary. Everything is still in the app's storage on your phone, protected by your device's own lock and the platform's app sandbox — see where your data lives. Folders keep an assistant on-topic; they are not a vault.
Related
For a research-shaped collection where sources and your own notes sit side by side, use a notebook. To find something across everything regardless of folder, use search.
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