Chat & AI
Seeing every file in a chat
The Session files panel lists everything a chat has touched: uploads, library documents, folders and generated files.
Step 1
Open it
The file icon in the chat header carries a count. Press it to open Session Files on the right, or as a sheet on a phone. It only appears once the chat has at least one file. The count includes documents the AI generated here that are not saved yet.
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Step 2
What is listed
Uploaded Files are what you attached from your computer. Document References and Folders are what you picked from your library. Generated holds documents and images the AI made here, and Saved to Documents shows the ones already in your library. A file used in more than one message shows how many times.
Uploaded Files
Document References
Folders
Step 3
Filter the list
When a chat has files of at least two kinds, tabs at the top narrow the list to All, Uploads, Documents or Folders, each with its count. Documents counts library documents, generated documents and saved ones together. While a file name is still being looked up, a small spinner shows next to it.
Step 4
Jump back to where it was used
Hover a file and Go appears under it. Press it to scroll the chat to the message that used it; the message flashes.
Step 5
Save an upload to your library
An upload only lives in this chat. Hover it and press Save to put it in your library, where it can be searched, shared and used in other chats. Once saved, the button becomes View. The same Save appears when you hover a file chip inside a message.
Step 6
Folders
Press a folder row to expand its files, or the arrow icon at its end to open it in Documents. If the files cannot be fetched, the folder says Files could not be loaded. with Try again. Pressing a file opens its preview as a window; Escape closes just the preview. Escape or the cross closes the panel.
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Related guides
Starting a new chat
The start screen, starter prompts, temporary chats, and what New chat does once you are already in a conversation.
Attaching files to a chat message
Add a file from your computer so the AI can read it: press the paperclip, drag it in, or paste it.
Scoping a chat to specific documents or folders
Point the AI at exactly the files in your library it should answer from, and choose how deeply it reads them.