📌 New Feature: Links Shared in Chat Are Now Saved to User Files

[abhi]

We just rolled out a small but powerful upgrade that makes conversations way more useful over time.

What’s new
When a user shares a YouTube link or any other link inside a chat, Pickaxe now automatically saves that link as a file in the user’s profile.

Earlier, this worked only for uploaded files like PDFs, Word docs, spreadsheets, and images. Now links are treated the same way.

How it works

1. Make sure Allow users to upload files is enabled in your Pickaxe.

   

2. A user shares a YouTube link or another reference link in chat.

   

3. Pickaxe stores it under that user’s profile → Uploaded Files.

4. The AI can use that link later in the same conversation or future ones.

5. Studio owners can see these saved links from the Users tab as well.

   

Why this matters

• Conversations get smarter over time. The AI remembers what the user shared.

• Perfect for coaching, research, onboarding, learning tools, or long-running projects.

• No need for users to re-share the same resources again and again.

• You get better context per user without building extra workflows.

Think of it as lightweight, automatic memory for references. Users casually drop links. Pickaxe quietly organizes them and puts them to work later.

If you were already using file uploads, this extends that same power to links with zero extra setup.

Try it out and let us know how you’re using it

[kenlyle]

This is a really nice update saving shared links as user files is super useful for long-running conversations and reference memory

One thing I wanted to flag from a production use case:
This feature works great for user-uploaded files and for saving reference links.

However, our challenge is specifically with images generated by external models (e.g. Replicate) not images manually uploaded by users.

Replicate returns temporary URLs that expire after ~24 hours. Saving the link alone isn’t sufficient, because the underlying image disappears.

What we’re missing is a way for Pickaxe to ingest and persist model-generated images — either by auto-downloading them or allowing us to push them into Pickaxe-managed or custom storage.

That would unlock a lot of long-term creative and editing workflows.