Set up your first project

A project is a folder for your AI work. It groups related conversations in one place, and it can hold instructions and reference files the AI reads whenever you're working inside it.

That second part is what makes projects more than tidiness. Without one, every new conversation starts from zero, and you end up re-explaining the same background again and again: what the product is, who the audience is, how you like things written. Put that background into a project once, and every conversation inside it starts already knowing.

Creating one

1. On the Dashboard, click "Create Project".
2. Name it after the work, not the tool. "Q3 launch" or "Kitchen renovation" will still mean something in a month; "AI stuff" won't.
3. Open the project's settings (the gear icon).

From settings, three optional things:

• Instructions: standing guidance the AI follows in this project, like "write in plain English" or "assume Python, not JavaScript".
• Reference files: documents for the AI to draw on, like a product spec or a style guide.
• Defaults: a default model or persona for conversations in this project.

You don't need any of that on day one. An empty project that simply collects related conversations is already earning its keep.

Projects and memory

GPTree remembers useful facts, decisions, and patterns from your conversations, and those memories are scoped to projects. What it learns while you work in "Client A" stays with Client A instead of leaking into "Novel draft". If your work has genuinely separate compartments, that's the strongest reason to set up projects early, before the pile of uncategorized conversations forms. (It forms fast.)

What to make first

One project, for whatever this week's actual work is. Resist creating six empty ones for imaginary future workstreams; empty folders don't organize anything, and we've all learned that lesson with regular folders already.

A note on sharing, because people ask about it early: inviting teammates into a project so you can work on it together is a Team plan feature. On Free and Pro, a project is your own private organization. You can still hand anyone a read-only public link to an individual conversation on any plan, which covers "look at this" even though it doesn't cover "build this with me".

Your next step: click "Create Project" on the Dashboard, name it after this week's work, and start your next conversation inside it. The first time you catch yourself re-explaining something to the AI, stop, and put it in the project's instructions instead.