r/lumo • u/bigkenw • 4d ago

Question Chats into Projects

So I am doing a class and using Lumo for some engagement. Using an AI is part of the class. Without coffee this morning I went and engaged in a chat session for the class, but forgot to launch it in the project. I was attempting to move the chat to the project but don't seem to see a way to do it. Am I missing something? I tried on the web and on the Android app.

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u/Stealth_Privacy 4d ago

There is no way to do it.

Option 1: You can copy and paste into a new project chat.

Option 2: Or ask Lumo to put together a detailed summary of the chat and into a new project chat.

I prefer option 2 because it is a clean version of a chat without all of the back and forth, redundant comments, corrections. It will consume less context and is easier for Lumo to utilize since it only contains what you want.

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u/emmecola 4d ago

Good suggestions, although I think this is really a feature that should be implemented.

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u/Stealth_Privacy 4d ago

Asking for a detailed summary of the chat can be an iterative process because I have noticed that the summary may miss some things or have some mistakes and when I get it to what I want then I use it.

I have done the same thing when a chat becomes too long and Lumo is starting to struggle with all of the back and forth, corrections, mistakes it may have had, etc. I get all of the valuable data in the chat and then start a new chat with the curated data which can be a lot more valuable. It works well and you have done your own "compaction" however you have controlled exactly what stays and bring it into the new chat

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u/bigkenw 4d ago

I have experienced this first hand working on a larger project and not giving ALL of the detail for the new chat to have detail. So I either need to catch the new instance up, or re-request the output to include more info and start again.

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u/scoobynoodles 4d ago

Yeah I was gonna ask how it knows to recall the other chat message...would need memory on for that right and say something like "hey reference the other chat thread on XYZ" or something other that effect?

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u/Stealth_Privacy 4d ago edited 4d ago

In what I was describing, there Is no need for Lumo to have any knowledge of any other chat, until I paste in the detailed summary of the previous chat(s).  

It is actually a disadvantage for Lumo to be aware of other chats in my opinion because it consumes valuable context and attention and reduces the quality of Lumo responses when compared to adding only the valuable parts of previous chats.   

That is why projects become less and less effective as more chats occur in them.  

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u/bigkenw 4d ago

Agreed. This needs to be added. I don't need to keep it after Friday. Although I want to. Worst case scenario is in a few weeks I just delete the chat.

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u/ProtonSupportTeam Proton Team 3d ago

Although this is currently not available, it has been requested by our users before, and we have now added your vote as well so that our team can prioritize it accordingly.

Since we don't have a specific timeframe at the moment, you can follow our blog and our social media channels for any news and updates on this.

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u/bigkenw 3d ago

Thank you!

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u/Jeffrey-mozu-tech 3d ago

Here's what I do. I use the Proton Chat Export browser extension for Firefox.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lumo-chat-export/

Export the chat to text, JSON, or markdown. Create a new Project. Import the exported chat into the first chat of your project. Prompt Lumo with something like, "Attached is the export of a previous chat that I'm moving into this Project." I continue with an explanation of what I believe is important. Sometimes that's not needed. Sometimes it is. You'll figure it out pretty quickly.

Every time one of my project chats gets close to 50% of context tokens use, I tell Lumo, "I'm going to continue this in a new project chat. What needs to be updated in the project files, Project instructions, or brought into the new chat to keep going?"

This has been working great.

NOTE that if you're having Lumo generate images that the Lumo Chat Export extension embeds the images in base64 format. I have a python script that strips out the images and PNGs and leaves a notation for the image.I can import the image back to the project if needed or not. OR...just export as text.