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Give Torki a project to work in
Put your standing instructions and reference files in one place, and every chat inside it starts with them in view.
Free. The account you get at sign-up covers all of this: creating the project, writing instructions, uploading files, adding text snippets, choosing the memory scope, chatting inside it and filing older chats in. What the plan limits is how many projects you hold at once — Free 3, Lite 15, Arc and Zenith no project limit — and archiving a project frees a slot. Messages you send inside a project draw on the same plan message allowance as any other chat; a project does not come with its own.
A project is a named workspace that holds a brief and a set of reference files. Every chat you start inside it begins with both, so you stop re-explaining the same context at the top of each conversation. Setting one up is a sheet — a template screen, then three steps — followed by one tab. One of those steps looks like it uploads your files but does not, and the walkthrough below takes you past it.
How it works, step by step
Open Projects and start one
In the sidebar, open Projects
. Click New project
at the top right. On a first visit the list is empty and shows No projects yet
with a Create project
button that opens the same sheet; no keyboard shortcut opens it, and Ctrl/Cmd + P opens this same list rather than a create dialog. The sheet Create a new project
opens on Start with a template or create from scratch.
, where you pick one of five templates — Mobile App Development, Research Paper, Content Series, Financial Analysis, Study Guide — or Start from scratch
. A template fills in the fields on the next two screens for you, instructions included, and you can edit all of it.
Name it and check the category
On the Details step, fill in Project name *
— the counter runs to 100. Category *
is already set to Coding unless a template changed it, and Description
, Color
and Icon
are optional. Click Next
.
Write the standing instructions
On the Instructions step, type the brief you want every chat here to start from into Custom Instructions (optional)
. The placeholder states what the field does: Tell Torki how to behave in this project. These instructions apply to every chat within this project.
This box stops at 1,000 characters while the same field on the project's Instructions tab takes 5,000, so treat it as the opening draft. Leave the Isolate project memory
toggle as it is for now — the same choice sits on the project's Settings
tab afterwards, and what it changes is described below. Click Next
.
Click straight past the Files step
The third step, Knowledge Files (optional)
, has a working dropzone, but nothing you put in it is uploaded — the wizard discards the files when the project is created. Add nothing here and click Create project
. The sheet closes and returns you to the list; it does not open the new project.
Add your files from the Files tab
Open the project from the list and go to its Files
tab, which explains itself: Files uploaded here are available to the AI in every conversation within this project.
Use Upload
for documents and code (PDF, DOCX, TXT, CSV, JSON, MD, code files — max 50MB each
) or Add Text
to paste reference material straight in as a titled snippet of up to 15,000 characters. The bar above the list is a character budget shared by the whole project and spent from the top down, so drag the files that matter most to the top before the budget runs out.
Start a chat inside the project
Click New Chat
in the project header and ask your question. The first reply carries a thin strip beneath it beginning Used:
, chipping the project files that were in scope, a Custom instructions
chip and a total such as 3 sources
. That strip is a live indicator of what was available to the answer, not a stored receipt — reopen the conversation later and it is gone. Nothing on screen marks the chat as being in the project until you send that first message, when the project breadcrumb appears above the thread.
Before you start
The things people hit on their first try, so you do not have to find them the hard way.
The three-project cap is silent
Free holds three projects at a time, and nothing in the product shows you that number. There is no counter against the limit anywhere, and the fourth
Create project
fails without a word — the sheet closes and the list comes back unchanged. The bare count besideProjects
in the header is the only figure you can check against, and archiving a project frees a slot.Memory Scope sets what a chat may recall
The project's
Settings
tab has a Memory Scope choice betweenShared Memory
andIsolated Memory
. It governs one thing: how widely a chat in this project may search your earlier conversations for something worth recalling. Shared lets it draw on the project's other chats; isolated keeps it to that one chat. In both settings, a chat in the project never draws on your general chats and a general chat never draws on this project's, and neither setting scopes the facts you have asked Torki to remember — those go into every chat. TheSave Changes
button sits above the two cards, so scroll back up after picking one.Images in a project are never read
An image uploads and appears in the list, but its status chip stays
pending
and it is left out of both what Torki is given and theUsed:
strip. The create wizard's dropzone hint offers images anyway, which makes this easy to trip over. To have Torki look at a picture, attach it to a message in a chat instead.Filing an old chat in moves it
Hover a conversation in the sidebar, open the
...
menu, chooseAdd to Projects
and pick the project in theAssign Project
sheet. A toast confirmsChat added to project
and the conversation then leaves your sidebar — this is a move, not a copy. From that point it lives on the project'sChats
tab, which has its own search box.
Try it yourself.
Free to start, no credit card. Sign in once and the same account works on the web, on your Mac and on your phone.