diff --git a/private_gpt/server/ingest/ingest_service.py b/private_gpt/server/ingest/ingest_service.py
index f9ae472..97c4e00 100644
--- a/private_gpt/server/ingest/ingest_service.py
+++ b/private_gpt/server/ingest/ingest_service.py
@@ -39,13 +39,14 @@ class IngestService:
             docstore=node_store_component.doc_store,
             index_store=node_store_component.index_store,
         )
-        node_parser = SentenceWindowNodeParser.from_defaults()
+        self._settings = settings()
+        node_parser = SentenceWindowNodeParser.from_defaults(window_size=self._settings.vectorstore.inject_win_size)
 
         self.ingest_component = get_ingestion_component(
             self.storage_context,
             embed_model=embedding_component.embedding_model,
             transformations=[node_parser, embedding_component.embedding_model],
-            settings=settings(),
+            settings=self._settings,
         )
 
     def _ingest_data(self, file_name: str, file_data: AnyStr) -> list[IngestedDoc]:
diff --git a/private_gpt/settings/settings.py b/private_gpt/settings/settings.py
index 408b1ec..abb7ad3 100644
--- a/private_gpt/settings/settings.py
+++ b/private_gpt/settings/settings.py
@@ -120,6 +120,10 @@ class LLMSettings(BaseModel):
 
 class VectorstoreSettings(BaseModel):
     database: Literal["chroma", "qdrant", "postgres"]
+    inject_win_size: int = Field(
+        3,
+        description="How many sentences on either side to capture, when parsing files",
+    )
 
 
 class NodeStoreSettings(BaseModel):
diff --git a/settings.yaml b/settings.yaml
index 1765fe4..5577fe9 100644
--- a/settings.yaml
+++ b/settings.yaml
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ huggingface:
 
 vectorstore:
   database: qdrant
+  inject_win_size: 2
 
 nodestore:
   database: simple