Favorite Files - Anyone else use the same @mention files over and over again?

[mstraughan86]

My Usecase:
I have a .cursor directory with metaproject scripts and analysis and information, and inside of there I keep track a description.md a roadmap.md and a plan_of_action.md that I find myself using over and over and over again.

Even if i weren’t doing that specifically, I also have a folder of .md files that I reference so often, I would love to favorite that folder that contains them so that it would bubble up to the top of the drop-down recommendation list and be even easier to click through.

Here are some screenshots of what I mean:

[litecode]

Hi @mstraughan86 ,

A similar notion of ‘canned prompts’ emerged in this topic:

Context Groups: Defining collections of files as a single context for prompting

I wonder if some sort of ‘canned responses’ feature could achieve the desired results, but also be adaptable to other scenarios as well. You know how helpdesk software has canned responses, eg from a quick Google search: https://www.helpdesk.com/help/what-are-canned-responses/ https://www.livechat.com/help/set-canned-responses https://www.customerly.io/canned-response-templates It seems Cursor already has the underlying mechanism for ‘tagging’ specific content through the @ symbols feature,…

And there was a similar idea here:

Workaround for lack of memory between chats

I guess this is a combo of showcase, workaround & feature request. I’ve been hoping for project memory to eventually be retained between chats, especially as chat length increases and subsequently degrades the quality of responses. Basically I’ve just created a projectContext.md file top-level in my codebase that describes the project / codebase and any current tasks being worked on. Essentially it just contains any information I would want to be persisted between chats. So I can just @project…

Also, I came across this video yesterday which i thought had some interesting ideas:

Title: Cursor Composer Auto saves your prompts to a file
Duration: 3 mins 48secs
Author: echohive
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QknrE1VRuc

[Eddy]

the video TLDR:

in .cursorrules, Instruct cursor to write the users prompts to a separate file and update it with each prompt, appending the next query

the second part was about writing a summary

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Watch the video for full prompt, seems to work decently well