New in Storytell: New chat continuity, improved asset visibility, and streamlined scope

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During this week’s engineering demo on, our engineering team shared updates on enhanced chat continuity, refined scope controls, improved asset and concept management, new foundations for social sharing, and critical stability fixes. These advancements further Storytell’s mission to help users organize, retrieve, and collaborate using their knowledge—all with greater clarity and control.

‍Enhanced chat continuity and recent conversations

‍The latest update introduces a more robust recent chats experience. Now, every new chat automatically appears in the recent chats section, allowing users to revisit and continue any previous conversation at any time. Picking up where you left off is as simple as a single click, no need to remember prior context or restate topics as Storytell maintains full conversation history for seamless follow-ups and deeper exploration.When returning to an earlier chat, Storytell references all previous discussion, ensuring a natural flow and deeper insights on ongoing topics. The goal is to provide a workspace that adapts to real workflows, supporting inquiry over time and across sessions—or simply keeping tabs on fast-moving projects or questions that unfold over days or weeks.

‍Scope controls for more targeted results

‍The way Storytell interprets the scope of a user’s query has been updated for better precision. Previously, if nothing was selected in the scope bar, all uploaded content was included in the search. Now, only assets or concepts you specifically select or mention will be included by default. This allows users to focus responses on the exact documents or topics they care about.

• A new “include all knowledge” button lets users easily revert to the previous behavior, making every asset and concept available for a prompt with a single click.
• Explicit control over scope means more relevant and actionable answers every time, especially as knowledge repositories grow in size and complexity.

Improved awareness of asset processing status

‍One common point of confusion has been knowing when uploaded files are fully processed and ready for use. The team is implementing a prompt that notifies you if any selected assets are still being processed before you attempt to submit a query. Users can then choose to wait for completion or proceed anyway—always knowing exactly when their content is available for search and summarization.This “just-in-time” notification streamlines onboarding of new content and prevents situations where queries appear incomplete or confusing due to unprocessed assets.

‍Foundational improvements for social sharing

‍Storytell’s new server-side rendering approach paves the way for richer social sharing in an upcoming release. By generating preview data directly on the server, shared links (when the feature is enabled) will display well-formed previews, including titles and content snippets, across major social platforms and chat applications.

• Currently, only private or team users can access chats, but when public sharing is introduced, previews on platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Slack will display story threads in an attractive, readable format.
• Users will be able to control precisely what appears in shared previews, making collaboration and knowledge sharing beyond Storytell simpler and more visual.

Streamlined asset and concept management

‍Managing individual and multiple assets has been made more flexible. Users can now:

• Delete assets one at a time
• Select and bulk delete several assets at once—an especially useful feature for maintaining large knowledge bases

Additionally, the system ensures that concepts (automatically generated from your content) are synchronized with your current asset list. If you remove an asset, any related concepts are updated instantly, keeping your knowledge graph clean and accurate.The @ mention system enables referencing both specific assets and abstract concepts in any prompt or chat, making it easier to direct queries and commands to the precise information you need. This delivers a more conversational, intuitive way to engage deeply with your library—and means any piece of knowledge or topic can be highlighted instantly within a dialogue.

‍Critical stability and security fixes

‍Thanks to backend updates from the engineering team, each user’s chats and data are now securely isolated. Previous issues where users might accidentally see chats from other accounts have been eliminated, resulting in a platform that upholds both privacy and reliability at every turn.Additional bug fixes improve the handling of assets in “processing” states, ensure accurate calculation and display of credits, and address authentication flows relating to sign-in and sign-up.

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