Research
Keep AI research in one place.
More and more, people open an AI to find something out — to understand a topic, weigh a set of options, get to a conclusion. But real research is never one question. It’s dozens, spread across sessions, days and different tools. And the moment you need what you found, it’s somewhere you can’t reach.
Research isn’t one question
A serious investigation happens in pieces. You ask, read, follow a link, ask again. You open a fresh chat tomorrow, then switch tools for the next stretch. Each session answers a little — but nothing adds up on its own.
Three weeks in, you have thirty conversations and no single place that says what you actually learned. So when you need the number, the source, or the reason you ruled something out, you scroll back, can’t find it, and just ask again. You end up re-running research you already did.
What Giraffe keeps
Giraffe holds the durable part of an investigation — the findings, the sources behind them, the conclusions you reached, and the questions still open — organized under one project you can open any time. When you land on something worth keeping, you tell your AI to save it: “Add that to my research project.”
Later, you open the project and re-read where things stand instead of re-running the search. Each project has plain search, so you can jump to a source or a name without scrolling. Most of the time that’s the whole job — no new AI session needed. When you do want to dig further, you continue in an AI from exactly that state. Here is how Giraffe works, step by step.
A months-long investigation, in one place
Say you’re piecing together one side of your family. You work at it in bursts — a session to make sense of a census record, another to turn a scanned certificate into a clean timeline, a late one chasing a name that turns out to be a dead end. Different tools, dozens of small sessions, over months.
Into a single project you save as you go:
Family history
- Findings
- The line back to your great-grandmother; the 1911 address; a surname that changed spelling at immigration.
- Sources
- The two records that prove each date, a cousin's email, the archive reference number.
- Open questions
- The brother who disappears after 1920; which of two men is the right match.
- Conclusion
- The branch you've established — and the one you've set aside for now.
Months later you pick it up again and don’t start over. You open the project, see exactly what’s proven and what’s still loose, and keep pulling the thread — reading on your own, or continuing in an AI from where you left off. The same holds for any long investigation: comparing options for a considered purchase, understanding a subject deeply, or gathering the evidence behind a decision you need to defend later.
Re-read what you learned, don’t research it again
The hard part of research was never getting an answer. It’s holding on to the dozens of answers you already found, with the sources that back them, so the next time you sit down you’re building on what you know instead of rebuilding it.