Forge Docs

Forge Docs let you turn AI conversations, web captures, and your own notes into saved Markdown documents inside your projects.

A Forge Doc is a Markdown file with optional metadata about where its content came from. It bridges the gap between browsing, chatting with AI, and building a permanent knowledge base in your project.

What Forge Docs are for

  • Save AI conversations — capture a useful exchange from ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini as a document you can find later
  • Capture web content — turn a web page or selected text into a project document
  • Create new documents — start a fresh Markdown file from the extension or from the Project Navigator
  • Convert existing files — turn an on-disk file's content into a Forge Doc with metadata

How to create a Forge Doc

There are several ways to create a Forge Doc:

  • From an AI chat — use the extension's capture controls while viewing a conversation. The chat content is formatted and saved with source metadata (platform, URL, title).
  • From the Project Navigator — right-click the _captured folder and select New Forge Doc (requires the browser extension to be connected).
  • From a file — right-click any file in the Project Navigator and choose Create Forge Doc from File.
  • From the extension panel — open the Forge Docs section and start a new document.

What gets saved

A Forge Doc is saved as a standard .md file in your project folder. It may include:

  • The document content in Markdown format
  • Optional YAML frontmatter with source metadata (source URL, platform, capture date)
  • Tags assigned during creation

Because Forge Docs are plain Markdown files, they work with any other tool that reads Markdown. They are not locked into a proprietary format.

Tags on Forge Docs

When creating a Forge Doc, you can assign tags that serve two purposes:

  • User tags — organizational labels that help you find the document later through tag search or filtering
  • Command tags — special tags that tell ThinkForge how to handle the document, such as indexing it into semantic memory or importing it into a specific project folder

Tags from the source content (such as the folder or chat context) can also be inherited automatically.

Where Forge Docs are stored

By default, new Forge Docs are saved to the _captured folder in your active project. You can choose a different folder when creating them. Once saved, they appear in the Project Navigator and are indexed into project memory like any other document.

Editing

The Forge Doc editor is a Markdown text editor. You write and edit content directly as Markdown text. This keeps things simple and portable — your documents are always readable plain text files.

Plain Markdown. Forge Docs use standard Markdown formatting. Any Markdown-compatible tool or viewer can read them.

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