Notes & working with AI

Save a chat

Save a helpful AI answer as a note so you can reuse it later without re-running the conversation.

How it works in the chat UI:

1. Hover over an AI answer in the conversation.
2. Click Save to notes (the document icon).
3. A new note opens with the answer already filled in.
4. Give it a clear title, edit the text if needed, then click Create.

Your note is stored in the current workspace and appears in the Notes list.

Learn what notes are used for

Reuse notes as context

Notes are a great way to bring your own insights into a conversation. You can attach them as context so the AI stays aligned with your reasoning.

Two quick ways to attach notes:

1. From the chat input
   • Open the attachment menu above the chat box.
   • Switch to the Notes list, then pick the notes you want.
   • A checkmark shows which notes are already attached.
2. From the Notes list
   • Open Notes in your workspace.
   • Hover a note row and click the chat icon to add it to the current context.
   • Click again to remove it.

Attached notes appear in the context panel and count toward the context limit, so keep only what the AI needs.

Learn how chat context works

Export a note

Download an existing note as a PDF or Word document when you need to share it or work with it outside Contradic.

1. Open the note and save any recent changes you want to include. Export uses the currently saved version.
2. Select Export at the top of the note.
3. Choose PDF (.pdf) or Word (.docx).
4. Choose Short references for a compact source list, or With source extracts for an appendix containing the cited material.

The file downloads automatically when it is ready. Contradic also adapts the page layout to the content: text uses portrait pages, tables use landscape pages, and very wide tables use a larger landscape format.

If the note has no citations, no references or source appendix is added.

Understand citations in exported notes