Create links to past chats

I would find it very useful to have a way to create a link to a past chat in cursor.

I keep markdown notes from my work. Often the messages I write in a chat in cursor have lots of valuable context in my messages and of course in the models’ replies. I would love to be able to add a link to relevant cursor chats as part of my notes.

When I look back in my notes it would be great to have a way to reference the cursor chat/chats that are relevant to a specific feature implementation or debugging session.

This would allow me to:
1 Go back and copy out prompts that I want to start a new conversation from
2. See what commands I ran in the chat, including outputs we referenced.
3. Remember why we implemented a thing a certain way.

i’ve found it helpful to keep a readme.txt and have the model continually update it with current state and plan for future reference

Thank you for the suggestion, I also do this! But I found it tedious, and it is tricky to capture the content of a lengthy back and forth in a document. I’ve not found a flow where I reliably produce useful document that I can reference back with this approach.
I think I’d prefer just reading the past chat with the code suggestions with syntax highlighting etc.

something like the “Share Chat” feature in chatgpt would actually be very useful here!

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I’m using Specstory to do this: Install the extension - SpecStory

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yes can recommend specstory. every chat is saved, indexed and you just refer to it by filename. it also works in codebase. ideally Cursor should just build this in as setting.

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Specstory seems really promising. I will give it a try!
I haven’t tried a cursor extension before, I’m curious how it will work with remote development.

Not sure if you mean this, but you can refer to previous chats in the same project with @summarized Composers > name of the chat

Or you can refer to notepads, your cursorrules files and query your entire computer if you want with an MCP server with local file access and the everywhere tool.

You can also simply instruct the agent to write certain notes to a text file of your liking whenever you write, e.g. “remember this” and it will then update the (shared) notes file for you automatically.

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Chats are stored in Summarized Composers? I thought Composer is composer and chat is chat.