Key concepts in Contradic

Account vs Workspace

An account contains your organization’s plan, members, and shared administration. A workspace contains the documents, notes, views, and settings for one project or team. One account can contain several separate workspaces.

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Understand accounts and workspaces

Document, Chunk, AI context

A document is a file you import into a workspace. It keeps the original file and the useful details you see in Contradic, such as the title, file type, tags, and folder. You can open a document to read it, or download the original or PDF version. Learn how in Import documents.

A chunk is a short excerpt that Contradic creates automatically from a document during import. Chunks help the app understand the document and make search results more precise. They are not separate files, just small passages used for search and analysis.

The AI context is the selection attached to a specific chat conversation. It is what the assistant is allowed to use when it answers you. You can add whole documents and notes to the context. Chunks help you find the right passages.

Quick comparison

• Document: the full file stored in a workspace
• Chunk: a short excerpt generated from a document
• AI context: the selection used by the assistant in one conversation

Typical flow

1. Import documents into a workspace.
2. Use search to spot useful chunks.
3. Add the chunks you want to the AI context.
4. Ask your question in chat. If the context is full, remove items or start a new conversation.

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How AI chat works

Views, Folders, Tags

A view is a saved way to display key information from your documents. It helps you compare and review without changing the documents. Learn the basics in Understand views.

A folder is the location of a document in your workspace library. Moving a document changes its location, not its content. See Organize your documents.

A tag is a label you attach to documents. Tags let you group documents across folders and apply multiple labels to the same document. The same guide covers folders and tags.

Quick difference

• View: a display lens for reading and comparing information
• Folder: the main location where a document lives
• Tag: a flexible label that can span multiple folders

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More about views

Notes

A note is a rich text page you create inside a workspace to capture ideas, summarize findings, or keep working drafts. Notes belong to a workspace and can be reused later in other conversations.

Two ways to create a note

1. Save a helpful answer from Contradic AI. The note includes a citation badge that keeps the source trail. You can edit that note at any time. Learn how citations work in Citations & sources.
2. Write a note from scratch. Use the editor to add a title and content, then format the text as needed.

What you can do in the editor

• Create headings and structure your text
• Use bold, italic, and highlights
• Add lists, quotes, links, and tables
• Keep writing without losing your layout

Reuse notes in AI chats

When you ask a question in AI chat, you can add notes to the AI context to guide the answer with your own insights.

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Go more in depth with notes

AI guidance Library

The Library groups reusable guidance for Contradic AI. Use it to compare resources before starting a chat:

• Methods guide how Contradic approaches a task.
• Expertise adds specialized domain knowledge.
• Outputs shape the answer as a memo, table, timeline, or another format.
• My prompts contains prompts available to you.

Find the right guidance

1. Open Library.
2. Choose the Methods, Expertise, Outputs, or My prompts tab.
3. Search by name or description. For Expertise, you can also filter by topic.
4. Open a resource to review its purpose.
5. Select Use in chat, then choose the workspace for your conversation.

Learn how to combine these resources in Use Methods, Expertise, and Outputs.

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Manage shared prompts