Filter by Apps, Time & Modality

Click the Filter By... button (filter icon) in the bottom toolbar to open the filter menu. The menu has three categories, each with its own sub-menu of options. Filters control which memories Conversational Search draws from when answering your questions.

Filter Results By menu showing Apps, Time, and Modality filter options

Apps

Limit searches to memories from specific applications. Hover over Apps to see a list of detected applications and check the ones you want to include.

Filter by Apps submenu showing available applications to include in your search

Click the `Filter By...` button in the *bottom toolbar*. Hover over **Apps** to expand the sub-menu. Check the apps you want to include (e.g., Chrome, VS Code, Slack). You can select multiple apps at once. Selected apps apply to your current chat and all future messages until you change them.

Time

Focus searches on specific time periods. Hover over Time to choose from preset options or select a custom date range.

Click the `Filter By...` button in the *bottom toolbar*. Hover over **Time** to expand the sub-menu. Choose from 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.

Modality

Restrict searches to specific types of captured context—the method by which a memory was formed. Hover over Modality to see the available types:

Filter by Modality submenu showing Vision, Clipboard, Audio, and Google Calendar options

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 Modality panel to enable, disable, or authorize the integrations that power each modality (for example, connecting a Google Calendar account).

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

Combine Apps, Time, and Modality filters 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 the Filter By... menu above.

Learn how to set additional context for your conversations in Add Context to Your Chats.