Projects and project files

A project groups conversations and files around one piece of work. Upload documents once and every conversation in the project has them. Here is how to create, organize, and use projects in Dropstone Chat.

A project is a folder for one piece of work: a client, a codebase, a report, a course. It holds conversations and files together, so Dropstone has the right context every time you open something inside it.

Create a project

From the sidebar, choose Projects, then New project. Give it a name. That is all it needs.

Add files

Open the project and upload files to it. Every conversation inside the project can draw on them without you attaching them again.

Supported formats are the same as for direct upload: PDF (including scanned), Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenDocument, CSV, Markdown, plain text, and images.

Large or scanned documents are processed in the background after upload. A file shows its status until it is ready; you can keep working meanwhile.

Start a conversation in a project

Open the project and start a new conversation from inside it, or move an existing conversation in from its sidebar menu.

Conversations in a project have access to the project's files. Conversations outside it do not.

What belongs in a project versus memory

Project files are documents. They stay in the project, are available to conversations there, and are not part of Dropstone's memory.

Memory is what Dropstone has learned. A convention it discovered while working in a project can become a memory, and that memory then follows you into every surface. The file it learned it from does not.

Put reference material in projects. Let Dropstone learn conventions into memory. See Memory and your privacy for the boundary.

Projects are private to your account. To share work from a project, share a conversation from it; see Share a conversation. Files uploaded to a project are not included in a shared conversation.

Delete a project

Deleting a project removes its files and its conversations. It does not remove anything Dropstone learned while working in it, since memory is separate; see Change or forget a memory for that.