Changelog

May 11, 2026

Folder instructions, in-app help, and a smarter chat

A handful of new touches this week: folder-level instructions for chat, in-app help, clickable cards for files and folders the agent acts on, and one-click connector setup from the chat input. Plus the usual long list of polish and fixes throughout the product.

Folder instructions

Each folder now has an Instructions tab in its settings. Whatever you put there is passed to chat whenever that folder is the active source. It's a clean way to set persistent rules ("always reply in Spanish", "cite in APA", "summarize before answering") for a specific research project without retyping them every message.

Ask Anara how to use Anara

Chat now knows the product. Ask things like "how do I import from Zotero?", "what's the difference between agent chat and ask chat?", or "how do I share a folder?" and Anara pulls directly from our help center to answer. No more bouncing out to support.anara.com to find the right article.

Jump to files and folders the agent works with

When the agent creates, moves, or otherwise acts on a file or folder during a chat, a clickable reference card now appears at the end of that message. One click takes you straight to it. Useful when you ask the agent to organize a literature review into a new folder, or take notes on a paper, and want to jump to what it just did.

Connect a connector from chat

Type "Notion", "Zotero", "Dropbox", or any other supported connector into the chat input and a pill appears above the composer to connect it in one click. Useful when you realize mid-question that you wanted Anara to pull from a tool you haven't hooked up yet.

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