Markbase vs. Copying notes between chats: Keep the handoff useful as the work continues.
Copying a short brief into a new conversation is often the simplest handoff. A shared workspace becomes useful when the same work keeps moving between teammates, agents, and sessions.
[ Which fits? ]
Start with the work you need to do.
When Copy and paste fits
Use a pasted summary for a small, one-off task with clear scope and little follow-up. You can choose exactly what the next conversation receives without setting up another workspace.
When Markbase fits
Use Markbase when the brief will change, several contributors need the latest record, or the next task needs decisions and supporting files from earlier work.
[ Side by side ]
Markbase vs. Copying notes between chats, side by side.
| What matters | Copy and paste | Markbase |
|---|---|---|
| Team practices and jobs | Consider how your existing setup distributes skills and starts agent tasks. | Publish team skills across machines; Dispatch routes alerts and due dates to your own agent runners. |
| First handoff | Write or generate a summary and paste it into the next chat. | Save the brief and ask the next connected agent to read it. |
| Later updates | Find the latest version and copy the changes to each relevant conversation. | Update the shared document, then have agents read the current version. |
| Supporting material | Collect and attach the relevant files again where needed. | Store supporting files alongside the saved context. |
| New teammate | Someone reconstructs which conversations and summaries matter. | Direct the teammate and their agent to the project brief and decision record. |
| Review | Review each summary in its conversation and reconcile differences manually. | Review the shared documents and their version history. |
[ Pricing ]
The extra cost starts with coordination.
Copying text does not require another workspace subscription. You still pay for whichever agents or models you use. The reason to add Markbase is a more useful shared record, not a promise that every handoff will be faster.
Copy and paste
$0 additional workspace fee
For occasional handoffs, the time spent collecting and pasting context may be negligible. As contributors and revisions grow, assess the effort to keep each copy useful.
Try a shared record
Use Markbase Free for one person, then compare how easily your next session finds the brief and updates it. A paid plan is needed when teammates join.
Measure your own workflow: how often do you reconstruct the brief, look for a file, or resolve two different versions of a decision? Use that experience to decide whether the shared workspace earns its place.
Markbase Free
$0a month
One person
3 workspaces, 200 documents each. 500 MB of storage.
Markbase Pro
$20a month
or $192 a year
Includes 5 seats
25 workspaces, 1,000 documents each. 25 GB of storage.
Markbase Team
$40a month
or $384 a year
Includes 10 seats, then $5 each
100 workspaces, 5,000 documents each. 250 GB of storage.
Markbase prices are USD before tax. Team’s extra seats are $5 each per month or $48 each per year, up to 100 members total. Enterprise and private deployments are quoted separately. Coding agents and model usage are not included. Full plans and limits
[ In practice ]
The third handoff should build on the first two.
The starting point
You investigate in one chat, implement in another, then ask a colleague to review. Each step starts by reconstructing what happened in the previous conversation.
With a shared workspace
Save the investigation, implementation notes, and open questions in one workspace. At each handoff, the next person and their agent read the relevant records and add their contribution.
Agents still need instructions to read and update the workspace. A shared document does not guarantee that every running conversation has loaded its latest version.
[ Getting started ]
Try it with one piece of work.
- 01
Take the summary you were about to paste into the next chat.
- 02
Save it as the project brief in Markbase, with the useful supporting files.
- 03
Ask the next connected agent to read it, continue the task, and save its progress.
[ Questions ]
A few practical questions.
- Is copying a summary a bad practice?
- No. It is a useful, lightweight approach. Consider a shared workspace when keeping those summaries current becomes a recurring part of the work.
- Will this remove the need to brief agents?
- No. You still choose what to save, review the record, and tell agents which context matters. Markbase gives those briefs a shared home that the next contributor can use.
- Can we try it on one task?
- Yes. Start with one handoff on the free plan for one person. Move to a paid plan when teammates need to join the workspace.
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