Install Contextify and keep coding sessions indexed.

Before you start

Verify and install

1. Find the public Contextify release

   Open the Windows download above and select x64 or ARM64 for your PC. Both routes download the signed setup from the public PeterPym/contextify GitHub release.

2. Check the signature

   Before running the setup, open Properties > Digital Signatures. Confirm the signature is valid and the signer is Robert A Banagale.

   Get-AuthenticodeSignature .\<downloaded-setup.exe> |
     Format-List Status, SignerCertificate

3. Run the setup

   Open the signed setup and launch Contextify. The notification-area icon appears after the app starts. Start at login remains off until you enable it in Settings.

Understand the Windows client

The notification-area app owns one resident indexing engine and the local Contextify database. It watches supported transcript folders, schedules ingestion, and presents controls for health, Cloud, licensing, updates, and diagnostics.

contextify.exe is the public command-line tool. The app starts and controls the separate contextify-windows-engine.exe process.

Index and search your sessions

1. Open Ingestion Health

   Open the notification-area menu and choose Ingestion Health. The window reports engine, watcher, project, entry, and last-ingest state.

2. Index current transcripts

   Choose Ingest Now in Ingestion Health after the engine is ready. Contextify scans supported local sessions and updates its index.

3. Search from PowerShell

   contextify status
   contextify search "sign-in handoff" --limit 5

By default, the database is %LOCALAPPDATA%\Contextify\contextify.db. You can choose another database folder in Settings > Database.

Connect Contextify Cloud

Local indexing and command-line search work without Cloud. To sync indexed history, open Settings > Cloud, sign in to the selected Cloud service, and choose Sync Now. Signing out disables sync without deleting the local database.

Review privacy and data behavior before enabling hosted or self-hosted sync.

Activate a commercial-use license

Open Settings > License. Paste the license token from your purchase email into the token field, then choose Activate. Contextify validates the token and shows the current license state.

See Local Commercial pricing and license coverage. Pasting the token in Settings is the supported activation path for this release.

Check for updates

Open the notification-area menu and choose Check for Updates. Contextify checks the stable update channel for the installed architecture. When a newer version is available, Contextify downloads it, exits, applies the update through its built-in updater, and restarts.

The update command is unavailable when Contextify is running outside an installed setup.

Next steps