Contextick FAQ

Because most AI chats start fresh and don’t carry the specifics of what came before. ChatGPT isn’t unusual here — Claude and other assistants work the same way. Contextick gives your AI one place to look things up, so you save the context once instead of retyping it every time.

Built-in AI memory usually works by summarizing — it keeps the gist and lets the exact details go. Contextick keeps the exact text you saved and hands it back word for word, so the specifics survive.

Only partly, and only inside that one AI. Built-in memory is limited, summarized, and locked to that assistant; Contextick keeps the full text and works across every AI you connect.

Because there’s usually nowhere else to put what your AI should remember, so you file it yourself — in a doc, a note app, or a folder — and paste it back in later. Contextick removes that step: you save once through your AI, and it pulls the right piece back when you ask.

Contextick is a private knowledge layer for your AI. You save any text once, and any AI you connect can recall it by meaning in later conversations.

No. There’s no app to open and nothing to organize — you save through the AI you already use, and your AI does the recalling. It’s a store your assistant reads from, not another place for you to file things.

In spirit, yes — but you don’t build it. A second brain is a system you assemble; Contextick is just a store your AI reads from. There’s nothing to set up beyond connecting it.

No app or extension. You connect Contextick to an AI you already have — like Claude or ChatGPT — and start saving.

It means a separate store your AI can read from and write to. Your knowledge lives in that layer instead of inside any one assistant, so it stays available no matter which AI you’re using.

Any text — notes, decisions, documents, drafts, code, or facts you want your AI to remember. If it can be written as text, you can save it.

Yes, and there’s no minimum length. That said, a few lines with real context will serve you better later than a one-liner — and since every saved note takes up a similar minimum amount of space, a single sentence costs about as much room as a short paragraph. Save the thought, not just the fragment.

Yes. A long document fits in a single note; very long ones are better split into a few parts, each saved on its own.

Yes — through your AI. Your assistant reads the file and saves the text, so Contextick never needs an upload button of its own.

Yes. Meeting summaries, research notes, blog drafts, and similar text are exactly what Contextick is for — save them once and any AI can build on them later.

Yes. Conventions, snippets, architecture notes, and API details are all text, so they save and come back like anything else — useful across ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and other coding tools.

Yes — and you don’t need ChatGPT’s export for it. Once Contextick is connected, open an older conversation and ask ChatGPT to summarize it and save it. The same works in Claude or any connected AI, as long as the assistant can still read that thread. You’re not limited to what you say from today on.

Not directly — Contextick stays focused on text. Keep media where it already lives and save the link, so your AI can point you back to it.

No. Contextick has no folders — it indexes what you save by meaning, so things are found by what they say instead of where you put them.

No tags, no categories. Contextick works from what your notes mean, so there’s nothing to label.

No. A short summary helps, but you don’t need to invent titles or keywords — a rough sense of what you saved is enough for Contextick to find it later.

Yes — that’s the point. You don’t track where anything is; you just ask your AI, and Contextick finds the closest matches by meaning.

Because Contextick does the part organizing was for. When you save, it indexes your text by meaning, so it can be found later without any structure you have to build and maintain.

You ask; Contextick finds. It matches your question against everything you’ve saved and returns the closest items by meaning — no exact keywords needed — and your AI answers from them. The exact text you saved is there when you need the full detail.

Usually you ask, and your AI queries Contextick to answer. It can also bring in something relevant on its own when it fits the conversation.

Yes. Contextick indexes your notes by meaning rather than by wording, so a note about “our refund policy” can surface when you ask about “returns,” even without matching words.

Contextick compares the meaning of your question with the meaning of what you’ve saved and returns the closest matches. You don’t set rules — the closest-in-meaning notes come back.

Yes. Contextick can return several related notes, and your AI combines them into one answer — so scattered pieces come back together.

Yes — that’s a fair description. RAG means retrieving the relevant text and letting an AI generate an answer from it. Contextick is the retrieval half, over your own knowledge: it indexes what you save so it can be found by meaning (semantic search), and your AI does the generating. You don’t need the jargon to use it — you save, you ask.

ChatGPT’s memory works only inside ChatGPT and is summarized. Contextick keeps the exact text and works across every AI you connect, so the same knowledge follows you when you switch.

Claude Projects keep context inside Claude. Contextick isn’t tied to one assistant — save something with Claude and recall it in ChatGPT or a coding tool later.

They’re great when you want to organize knowledge by hand — folders, tags, links. Contextick is built for people who’d rather not organize at all: you just save, and Contextick indexes it by meaning so your AI can bring it back.

The upkeep. Second brain apps ask you to file, link, and prune so you can find things later; Contextick indexes by meaning, so there’s no system to maintain. If you enjoy tending one, keep it.

Pasting works until your notes outgrow a single message or you can’t find the right one. Contextick holds far more than a chat can, and your AI pulls only the relevant parts when you ask.

Any AI that supports MCP (the Model Context Protocol) — including ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and Replit. You connect once per AI and your saved knowledge is available in each. We have step-by-step connection guides for each of them.

Yes — that’s the core idea. Save something in one AI and recall it in another, because your knowledge lives in Contextick, not inside any single assistant. Contextick also records which AI each note came from, so you can tell what you saved in ChatGPT from what you saved in Claude.

Add Contextick as a custom connector in Claude’s settings. It works on Claude’s free plan, which allows one custom connector. Contextick is currently under review for Claude’s directory — once approved, you’ll find it there and add it in one click. Step-by-step guide for Claude.

Turn on developer mode (available on Plus and higher) and add Contextick as a connector. It’s currently under review for ChatGPT’s directory — once approved, you’ll just search for Contextick there and add it in one click, with no developer mode. Step-by-step guide for ChatGPT.

In Cursor or Windsurf, add Contextick to your MCP config with an API key. In Replit, add it from the MCP settings pane in two clicks — no config file needed.

They work the same way: add Contextick to that tool’s MCP config. Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI all speak standard MCP, so what you saved in a chat app is available from the terminal too — and the other way around. Step-by-step guide for command-line tools.

Any AI that supports MCP. MCP is an open standard, so support isn’t something we add one assistant at a time — Contextick is a standard MCP server, which means any AI or tool that can add an MCP connector works with it today. The list above is just where we’ve written out the steps.

Not for most tools. Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and Replit connect on their free tiers; ChatGPT requires Plus or higher with developer mode. Contextick itself is free to use.

Not in the Gemini web app today — it has no self-serve way to add a custom MCP connector, so there’s nothing for you to add Contextick to. (Gemini CLI is a different story — see above.) Google’s Gemini surfaces are changing quickly, and we’ll announce it here when the app supports it.

You do. Your knowledge lives in your own private store and stays yours.

In a private database dedicated to your account.

No. Contextick stores and retrieves your knowledge; it does not train models on what you save.

Yes, anytime. You can delete any saved item, and deleting it frees up your space right away.

Only what you ask for. Your AI reads a note when it’s relevant to your question; your store isn’t handed over wholesale, and it’s never sold.

Only what you’d want your AI to reuse. Your store is private and never used to train models, but a good habit is to keep secrets out of it — passwords, card numbers, and the like. If something sensitive is mixed into text you want to save, ask your AI to mask those details before saving.

Not yet — full export is on the way. Today you can read and delete everything you’ve saved; taking it all out at once is coming.

Yes. The Free plan includes 10 MB of storage at no cost.

The free 10 MB holds a few full-length books’ worth of text — hundreds of pages. How much fits depends on how long your notes are.

No. Save and search as often as you like — you’re limited by storage space, not by how many times you use it.

Yes — about 16,000 characters per saved note (roughly 2,500–3,000 words). For longer material, save it in parts.

The core — save, recall by meaning, and use across AIs — works today; export and shared stores are on the way. What you save now stays with you: we’re not planning to reset anything.

Not yet — shared stores are on the roadmap. When they arrive, you’ll be able to invite people with view or edit access so a team can build knowledge together. Today each store is private to one account.

Not a separate REST API — Contextick connects through MCP, the open standard. You authenticate with OAuth or an API key from your account; the MCP connection is the interface.

When you only need short-term context inside one assistant and don’t care about the exact details later. If you switch AIs or need the specifics weeks on, that’s where Contextick helps.

Probably not. If you’ll never look something up again, there’s little reason to save it. Contextick pays off for knowledge you’ll want your AI to reuse.

If you like tending a system in Notion or Obsidian, keep it — that’s a real strength of those tools. Contextick is for people who’d rather not organize at all.

No. For images, video, or files you open directly, keep them where they are and save the link. Contextick is for the text you want your AI to recall.