Sessions and Knowledge

Hollama organizes your interactions into two primary concepts: Sessions and Knowledge. All of this data is stored locally in your browser.

Sessions

A Session is a single, continuous conversation with an AI model. Each session maintains its own context and history.

Managing Sessions

  • Creating: Click the New session button in the sidebar to start a new, empty conversation.
  • Navigating: The sidebar lists all your saved sessions, ordered by the most recently updated. The title of a session is automatically generated from the first user prompt. You can click on any session to load its history.
  • Editing Title: You can give a session a custom title. Hover over a session in the sidebar and click the pencil icon that appears.
  • Deleting: To delete a session, you can either:
    1. Hover over it in the sidebar and click the trash can icon.
    2. Open the session and click the trash can icon in the header.

Session Data

Each session stores:

  • The full history of user and assistant messages.
  • The model used (e.g., llama3).
  • Any custom model options or system prompts applied to that session.
  • Image attachments.

Knowledge

Knowledge is a powerful feature for storing and reusing content, typically used for complex system prompts or providing consistent context across multiple sessions.

Hollama Knowledge Base

Managing Knowledge

  • Creating: Navigate to the Knowledge tab in the sidebar and click the New knowledge button.
  • Editing: Give your knowledge a Name (for easy identification) and add your content in the main editor. The content can be plain text or Markdown. Click Save.
  • Deleting: You can delete a knowledge item from its page header or by hovering over it in the sidebar list.

Using Knowledge in a Session

You can use a knowledge item as a system prompt or attach it as context to a specific message.

  1. As a System Prompt:

    • In a session, click the Settings icon in the prompt editor to open the Controls view.
    • Use the Knowledge dropdown to select a saved knowledge item. Its content will automatically populate the system prompt for that session.

  2. As an Attachment:

    • In the prompt editor, click the Brain icon.
    • A new dropdown will appear. Select the knowledge item you want to attach.
    • When you send your message, the content of the knowledge item will be sent as a separate context block alongside your prompt.