You should be able to start a conversation on your laptop, return to it on your phone and find the same work waiting for you. You should know what signing out removes, what deleting an account affects and whether a parliamentary record has changed since you first read it.
Our latest update works on those everyday expectations. We reviewed the connections between Dex, Study, accounts, subscriptions and the official record, then rebuilt the parts that needed more dependable behaviour. The changes described here are part of that release; the website and background services need to be updated together for the full set to take effect.
Your saved chats can follow you
For readers signed into a free DáilDex account, Dex can now list saved conversations from the account and restore them when you open them on another device. The saved format keeps the interactive cards and tool results that form part of an answer, alongside the conversation text.
There is an important boundary: uploaded files stay on the device they came from. Opening an account conversation elsewhere does not transfer those file bytes. You may need to attach a document again to continue working with it on another device.
Chats stored on a shared computer are also kept under the profile that owns them. Older chats whose ownership cannot be established are held for your review, with options to import, keep or delete them. They are not automatically added to the next person’s account.
Saving an account conversation and volunteering it for model training remain separate choices. Signing in gives you account history; it does not turn on the optional chat training setting. Study material remains outside that setting.
More control over where you are signed in
Each device now has its own Dex session. Signing in on your phone no longer replaces the pass your laptop is using. In your account, the Devices tab shows your active sessions and lets you sign out the other devices.
Signing out ends that device’s Dex session on the server as well as removing its local pass. If you switch accounts on a shared browser, Dex checks that the pass belongs to the person currently signed in.
A guest pass still lets you try Dex without an account. If you need to recover an existing pass after losing access to the browser, use the verified DáilDex sign-in. Typing an existing email address into the guest form cannot recover someone’s account data.
Study tells you when a save needs attention
Study keeps an account copy of your spaces and a device copy for working offline. This update makes a failure to save on the device visible. If the browser cannot store your changes, Study warns you rather than letting you assume the offline copy is safe.
If unsaved work exists only in the open tab, you get a warning before leaving. Export a backup when you see a save problem, especially before clearing browser data or changing devices.
The offline app now uses a general opening screen instead of caching a page personalised to the last signed-in reader. Signing out locks access through that offline opening screen. Unsynced work can be kept for you to recover when you sign back in.
When the official record changes, our copy should change too
Parliamentary records can be amended. The current version of a question or debate contribution should appear once in ordinary results, while the earlier version remains available to the system for checking what changed. We have added a shared definition of the current record so different parts of DáilDex use the same version.
For votes, corrections can update a member’s recorded choice or remove an entry that is no longer in the official tally. The supporting facts are updated too, so an explanation should not rely on an older fact while the vote page shows the correction.
Changes affecting an alert already sent are flagged for review. This update does not automatically send a second email for every correction. We want to check what changed and whether readers need a notice.
We have also added dated membership and party records. Where the history is available, a vote can show the party a member belonged to on that date. Where it is missing, the page identifies the use of current-party information. Building out that history will take further backfilling.
Clearer Pro and deletion behaviour
Pro subscription updates now check the subscription’s current state with Stripe instead of treating an arriving notification as the final word. That helps keep access consistent when payment notifications are delayed or arrive in a different order.
Before deleting your Dex data, you can see what is included: saved chats, Study spaces, classes, student results and shared practice tests. If you have a Pro subscription, the confirmation also explains that deletion ends it immediately and does not refund unused days.
The deletion process settles the subscription before removing the account data. If the payment provider cannot be reached, DáilDex keeps a pending request and reports that deletion is unfinished. A failed server request should never be presented as a successful deletion.
A clearer promise for alerts
Following representatives remains free. The signup flow now describes the service we deliver: individual alerts about votes, debate contributions, parliamentary questions and relevant news, subject to your topic choices, the importance filter and the published daily cap.
A weekly subscriber digest, committee alerts and consultation alerts are still future work. They are not included by choosing a preference in the current signup flow. We have removed wording that suggested otherwise.
The delivery checks also follow unsubscribe and suppression status when replies are approved and when email is about to be sent. An email already handed to the provider can still arrive; it cannot be recalled at that point.
What we are working towards
The next useful step is to connect more of your research: a record you save, a question you ask about it and a Study session built from its sources. A real weekly briefing and clearer coverage information belong in that work too.
This release improves the foundations for those features. It does not make AI explanations infallible or extend our data to every parliamentary proceeding. Keep opening the source links, and tell us when an explanation or a record needs another look.
Open your account to check your signed-in devices, or return to Dex to continue a saved conversation. If something is missing or behaves unexpectedly, email ray@daildex.com with the page and what you were trying to do. Please leave private documents, pass tokens and payment details out of your message.