Scoping Your Prompt

Filter by specific apps, time ranges, or modalities to narrow your search scope and get more focused answers. Filters control which memories Conversational Search draws from when answering your questions.

Sources Filter

Limit searches to memories from specific applications. Use this when you want answers based only on specific apps.

Click the `Sources` button in the *bottom toolbar* to open the filter modal. Check the apps you want to include. You can select multiple apps at once. Selected sources apply to your current chat and all future messages until you change them. Sources filter modal with app checkboxes, Chrome and VS Code selected

Sources filter modal showing list of apps with checkboxes, with Chrome and VS Code selected

Time Ranges Filter

Focus searches on specific time periods. Use this when you need information from a specific period.

Click the `Time Ranges` button in the *bottom toolbar* to open the filter modal. Choose from 31+ preset options (e.g., "Yesterday", "This week", "Last month") or use the calendar view for custom date ranges. You can select multiple ranges at once. Selected time ranges apply to your current chat and all future messages until you change them. Time Ranges modal showing preset options and calendar view

Time Ranges modal showing preset options and calendar view

Modalities Filter

Restrict searches to specific types of captured context—what you've seen, copied, said, or scheduled. Use this when you want answers grounded in a particular kind of memory rather than a particular app.

Click the `Modalities` button in the *bottom toolbar* to open the **Refine by Modality** panel. Check any combination of the available modalities: 
- **Vision** — what you've seen (screen context captured by LTM).
- **Clipboard** — what you've copied and pasted.
- **Audio** — what you've said and heard.
- **Google Calendar** — events and meeting context from connected calendars.
Click **Manage Connections** at the bottom of the panel to enable, disable, or authorize the integrations that power each modality (for example, connecting a Google Calendar account). Selected modalities apply to your current chat and all future messages until you change them.

Some modalities depend on connected integrations or permissions (e.g. Google Calendar, microphone access for Audio). If a modality is unavailable, open Manage Connections to finish setup.

Combining Filters

Use Sources, Time Ranges, and Modalities together for precise queries—for example, "Chrome browsing from yesterday afternoon," or "anything I copied from Slack last week," or "meetings on my Google Calendar this month."

Scoping a Chat to One Event

To focus the assistant on one specific memory or summary, open that item in Pieces Timeline, open the three-dots menu (⋮), and choose Chat. This opens Conversational Search with that event's context pre-loaded. See Chat from a summary for details.

For broader scoping across many memories, use Sources, Time Ranges, and Modalities above.

Learn how to set additional context for your conversations in Setting Additional Context.