Projects

A project is one workspace for one piece of work. The sources you upload, everything you create from them, the chats you have about them, and any tasks you scheduled all live in the same place — so you stop hunting across your library for the five things that belong to the same goal.

Folders group content. A project goes further: it also holds the chats, the standing instructions, and the people you shared the work with.

Opening and Creating a Project

Projects in the sidebar opens the gallery, which shows a card for each project with its item count, chat count, and when you last opened it. Your projects are also listed directly in the sidebar under Projects, so you can jump into one from anywhere.

To start a new one, click Create project in the gallery — or Create your first project if you don't have one yet. You can also use the + next to Projects in the sidebar. A new project opens immediately, ready to name.

Naming and the Brief

Click the large project title at the top of the workspace, or the pencil beside it, and type. Press Enter or click away to save; press Escape to discard the change.

Under the title is a one-line brief. Click it to write what the project is for — the goal, the deliverable, the audience — and click Save brief. The brief shows on the project's card in the gallery.

The Workspace Tabs

Content

Everything in the project. Create with AI sits at the top and builds from the project's own materials — new items are saved straight back into the project. Add content uploads files or starts any creation without leaving the page, and on a computer you can drag files onto the workspace to add them.

Below that, the Content list shows every file, page, recording, and creation in the project, with anything still generating or uploading in a Processing section above it. Right-click a row to Move to another project or Remove from project — removing takes an item out of the project without deleting it.

The list has one toolbar row: search, where you are, grouping, and sorting, with the content types on a line beneath.

• Sort by name, by when something was added, by when you last worked on it, or by type. Name ordering reads the numbers inside a title, so Section 2 comes before Section 10.
• Group by type, by date, or into the sources you brought and the artifacts Scholarly made from them.
• The type filter is built from what this project actually holds, and search and filter work in Shared with me as well.

To arrange the project by hand, choose Custom order and drag the rows. The arrangement is saved to the project, so anyone you share it with opens it the same way. Custom order clears grouping, and a drag is blocked while a search or type filter is narrowing the list.

Tasks

One-time creations you scheduled while working in this project. Each row shows the title, the start time it is waiting for, and Run now to start it early. The tab shows how many are queued. See Scheduled Tasks.

Context

Everything that shapes how the project's AI behaves, in three parts:

• Default profile — choose a personal or team customization profile and every chat and creation started here reuses its instructions and visual identity. Change profile picks a different one; Clear removes it. See Customization Profiles.
• Project-specific instructions — standing guidance for this project only, such as which figures to use, which spelling to follow, or what to flag when the sources don't support a claim. Click Save instructions when you're done. Both the profile and these instructions apply automatically to new chats and creations in the project.
• Project memory — facts recalled only inside this project. Add them yourself with Add memory, or let Scholarly pick them up from your chats.
• Past chats — every conversation that belongs to the project, newest first. Open one to pick it up where you left it.

Collaborators

Sharing for the whole project. It shows the project link, an invite box for sending access by email, any pending access requests to Approve or Deny, and a list of who has access. The Anyone with the link row controls link access — from No access to Can view, and team-only if you're on a team. Invited people and teammates can view all content in the project, including folders and everything filed inside them. Project chats are not shared — editing, chat, and memory stay yours. See Sharing and Collaboration.

A project owned by a team

A project can belong to a team rather than to one person. Every active member opens it without an invite, everything each member contributes stays in it, and it survives the person who created it leaving. The project header names the owning team, and the gallery groups team projects above personal ones.

A personal project can be transferred to a team, and a team project handed to one member. Each is confirmed with a dialog that spells out who gains and who loses access. Project pickers name the team on a shared destination, so you can see where something is being filed before you click.

The Assistant Panel

An assistant panel stays open beside the workspace, so you can ask about the project without leaving it. It answers from everything in the project, and anything it creates is filed back there.

On a phone, a project opens on its content, with Ask this project as the full-width action at the bottom. See Scholarly on Mobile.

You can also move an existing chat into a project from the chat itself, which puts it under the project's sources and past chats.

Deleting and Restoring Inside a Project

Every item in a project has Delete in its menu. Deleting it:

• Takes it out of the project list.
• Moves it to the project's own Deleted section, and to Library → Deleted.
• Leaves it openable in both places.

Bring it back with Restore, or with the Undo toast that appears the moment you delete. Deleting never permanently removes anything, and it does not change an item's last-updated time, so a restored item sorts back where it belongs.

If an item was inside a folder you also deleted, restoring it takes it out of that folder so it reappears in the project instead of disappearing into something that is still deleted.

Chat can do this in bulk. Ask it to "delete everything in this project older than June" or "restore what I deleted this week" and it handles pages, files, PDFs, videos, flashcards, podcasts, meeting notes, research sessions, and folders in one go. See Managing Your Library from Chat.

One limit worth knowing: a chat that lives inside a project cannot delete that project — doing so would make the workspace, and the conversation itself, read-only with no way back. Delete a project from the project page instead.

Archiving a Project

When you're finished with a project, open the ⋮ menu in the header and choose Archive project. It leaves your gallery and sidebar, and its content and chats stay together and intact. Opening an archived project shows Restore project, which brings it back exactly as it was.

Worth Knowing

• Nothing is trapped in a project. Items stay in your library and search, and you can move one to another project or remove it at any time.
• Sharing a project shares its content, not its chats. Recipients can open every file, page, folder, and item inside the project. Project chats stay private.
• A folder inside a project still works like a folder. Use folders for grouping within a project, and see Folders and Organization.
• New work lands in the project you're working in. Every create window saves into a project, and when you start something from Home it goes into your most recent project rather than nowhere in particular. A chat started from the Home box does the same, so the conversation and the files you make from it stay together.
• You can always change where something went. Move an item to a different project, or out of projects entirely, from its menu.
• Archived projects can't be edited. Restore first, then continue.

Related

• Scheduled Tasks — the Tasks tab and starting a queued creation early.
• Customization Profiles — the reusable profile a project applies by default.
• Sharing and Collaboration — links, invites, access requests, and who opened what.
• Memory — account memory and project memory, and how they differ.
• Deleting and Restoring Content — the Deleted tab and restoring.
• Managing Your Library from Chat — bulk clean-up by asking.
• Folders and Organization — grouping content inside and outside a project.