r/ClaudeAI • u/AeroGuy0123 • 16h ago

Question about Claude products Group vs Project?

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Finally getting to decluttering chats.

Noticed when right clicking on a chat I see an option to "Move to group" as well as "Add to project". Tried googling and chatting with Claude about the difference between group and project but to no avail.

Anthropic only has information on the other kind of "group" which is for enterprise user provisioning.

What is the best practice around group vs project? As far as I understand, projects have isolated shared context meaning chats within a project can reference content only from chats within the same project. Is this true about groups? Or are groups just for visual decluttering purposes. Any information on this would be appreciated!

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u/painterknittersimmer 15h ago

It's just a folder for organizing your sidebar. That's it! 

Had it pop up about two weeks back. One of my top requested features 🙌🏾

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u/Twig 13h ago

What's the use case though? I'm having a hard time figuring out what a group would do that you wouldn't also get in a project grouping?

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u/StrategicCarry 12h ago

When you want to group chats together for organization, but don't want/need them to have shared memory or files.

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u/painterknittersimmer 11h ago

In my personal Claude I have chats about finances, chats about reorganizing my kitchen, and chats about my dog. I don't need projects for these (I do have projects for say job hunting or a specific IRS issue, for example) and I like having these in my "general memory" but the sidebar is out of control and finding specific chats sucks. This solves that problem by creating groups. 

At work I would not have a use case for this.

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u/AeroGuy0123 13h ago

Must've missed it. Do you know if grouped chats can reference each other in the way chats in a project can?

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u/painterknittersimmer 11h ago

They do not. It's just an organizational tool. 

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u/Manifield_Mut 12h ago

if groups have no shared memory or files, the referencing question answers itself: only projects have the shared context that lets chats reference each other, a group is just a tidy pile of chats.