Feature Request: Shared Project Folders — Persistent Files Across All Chats

Category: Feature Request
Submitted by: fretmusic

The Problem

Lumo’s conversations operate as isolated silos. When I’m working on a long-term project across multiple chats—whether it’s home automation, coding, or research—I have to repeatedly paste my project’s “master status document” into each new conversation to keep Lumo updated. If I forget, or if the document is outdated, the new chat starts with stale information and offers advice that’s no longer relevant. Even worse, the knowledge built up in past chats is essentially locked away—neither I nor a new chat can access it.

This creates a tax on every serious multi-chat workflow: managing state by hand.

The Proposed Solution

Shared project folders— a persistent, user-controlled workspace that lives outside any single conversation:

The Lumo app could have a “Projects” space where each project gets its own folder with documents like status files, notes, reference material, and code that persist independently of any chat. Every chat could read from this space, so when you start a new conversation, you choose a project (or Lumo guesses from your request), and the relevant files are instantly available without pasting anything. Chats could also write to it, updating documents at the end of a session or on demand, ensuring the next chat picks up from the latest state instead of an outdated snapshot. Folders would be user-visible and editable, letting you open them, edit files directly, delete content, and control which chats can access which folders.

Why This Benefits All Users

Project continuity ensures multi-session work flows smoothly — tasks like continuing a smart home setup just work without re-uploading context. Collaboration is easy with a shared project folder, allowing family or team members’ chats to pull from the same current state. Trustworthy memory combines Persistent Memory for preferences and background with explicit, inspectable project files, letting users clearly see what the AI knows. Shorter conversations keep chat history clean, since users no longer need to paste documents repeatedly, reducing clutter and bloated context.

Suggested Details

• Support for Markdown, text, and code file formats.
• Folder-level access control, private by default.
• Optional auto-sync feature: append session summaries to project changelog after each chat.
• Encryption and privacy aligned with Proton standards, including end-to-end encrypted project spaces within a zero-access architecture.

Summary

Persistent project folders would transform Lumo from a capable assistant with amnesia between conversations into a collaborative partner that remembers exactly where we left off. For those working on projects that span days, weeks, or even months, this would be the biggest quality-of-life improvement imaginable.