Hello Open Ai and Prism Team,
I’m currently using Prism for long-form academic writing and collaborative research, and I greatly appreciate its document-centric, LaTeX-native workflow.
I would like to raise two closely related usability issues that affect research continuity when working across multiple devices.
First, AI “New Chat” sessions in Prism appear to be session- or device-specific. When opening the same document on a different computer, previously created AI chats are not available.
In real research workflows, these AI chats are not casual conversations. They often contain:
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key reasoning steps,
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design and revision decisions,
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responses to reviewer feedback,
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and alternative argument structures that may not yet be reflected in the document text.
Losing this reasoning context across devices interrupts cognitive flow, causes duplicated work, and reduces trust in AI-assisted research continuity.
Second, editor preferences (such as real-time compilation, line wrapping behavior, Vim mode, sticky scroll, and other editor-level settings) also appear to be stored locally rather than at the account or project level.
As a result, when moving between devices (for example, from a home workstation to an office or university computer), researchers must manually reconfigure the editor environment each time. This breaks environmental consistency and introduces unnecessary friction into otherwise seamless cloud-based workflows.
While I fully understand Prism’s design philosophy of treating the document as the single source of truth, both AI reasoning traces and editor configuration form part of the researcher’s working context. In long-form academic writing, preserving this context is critical for productivity and accuracy.
Possible enhancements that could address these issues include:
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document-level or project-level synchronization of AI chat history,
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optional pin/save functionality for important AI chats,
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and account-level synchronization of editor preferences across devices.
Together, these changes would strengthen Prism’s position as a true research environment—one that preserves not only documents, but also the reasoning processes and working conditions behind them.
Thank you for considering this request. I believe these improvements would meaningfully enhance long-term academic writing and collaborative research workflows.