Chats and attachments

The chat panel holds up to four chats at once, each a separate chatgpt.com page. Toggle the panel with View › Show Chat (⇧⌘L).

More than one chat#

Choose New Chat (⇧⌘O) to start a fresh conversation in the active chat. To keep another conversation open beside it, open the chat's More menu (…) and choose Add Chat. Chats stack on top of each other; Show Chats Side by Side in the same menu lays them out in columns.

The active chat is the one you last clicked or typed in. It receives selections and attachments. Close an extra chat with the × in its header.

Attaching the PDF#

Opening a PDF never uploads it. chatgpt.com uploads a file the moment it's in the message box, even before you send, so Folio asks first:

• New chats show the open PDF's name with an Attach button. Choose Don't Attach to dismiss it.
• Chat › Attach PDF (⇧⌘A), or Attach PDF in a chat's More menu, attaches it at any time.
• Asking about a selection or page attaches the whole PDF too, so ChatGPT has the context. Turn this off in Settings › ChatGPT › Attach the PDF when asking about it.
• Settings › ChatGPT › Attach the open PDF to new chats attaches it to every new chat automatically. It's off by default.

One upload per conversation#

Folio remembers which PDFs each conversation already has, across launches, and checks the conversation before attaching. Asking several questions about the same document in one chat uploads it once.

Reload#

If a chat stops responding, choose Reload from its More menu. Your conversation is saved on chatgpt.com, so nothing is lost.