Manage your chats

Last published : Nov 09, 2026
This guide shows you how to start, find, rename, star, and delete chats, and how to use temporary chats and side chats.
Most of what you can do with a chat is in its ⋯ menu. In the sidebar, point to the chat to see ⋯ next to it. On a touch screen, it's always there. In an open chat, select More actions (⋯) at the top right.
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Start a chat

At the top of the sidebar, select New chat.
Each new chat gets its own folder for files. To start a chat that shares files with other chats, start it in a project instead. For more information, see Organize work in projects.

Use a temporary chat

A temporary chat isn't saved to your chat history. It's deleted 24 hours after the last message from you or the assistant, with the folder Knowledge Worker Agent created for it and the files in it. A project's folder, or a folder you chose for the chat, stays. Each new message starts the 24 hours again, and a chat isn't deleted while the assistant is still working in it.
To start a temporary chat:
  1. At the top of the sidebar, select New chat.
  2. At the top right, turn on Temporary chat.
  3. Send your first message.
Temporary chat then turns off, so your next new chat is saved as usual.
To make a chat temporary, select Make temporary in its ⋯ menu. You can also turn on Temporary chat in an open chat's settings: select More actions (⋯), and then Chat settings. If the chat was starred, it loses its star. A temporary chat can't be starred.
A temporary chat shows how long it has left at the top of the chat and in the sidebar's Temporary group. To see when it's deleted, point to the time at the top of the chat.
To keep a temporary chat, select Keep chat at the top of the chat, or in its ⋯ menu. It goes back to your chat history.
Temporary chats can't be shared, and neither can their files. While you're sharing a chat or any of its files, you can't make it temporary. Stop sharing first.
When a temporary chat is deleted, it's gone for good. If it was open, a new chat takes its place. A message sent to it after it was deleted moves to a new temporary chat, ready to send again. The assistant doesn't search temporary chats when it looks through your past chats.

Ask a question on the side

To ask something without interrupting the chat you're in, use a side chat. The assistant in a side chat knows everything in the chat so far. It works in the same folder, so it can read and change the same files. Nothing you ask in a side chat goes back to the chat.
  1. In an open chat, select More actions (⋯), and then Ask on the side.
  2. Type your question, and send it.
Ask on the side appears once the chat has messages.
The assistant knows the chat as it was when you sent your first question in the side chat, not what happens in the chat afterward.
A side chat is a temporary chat: it's deleted 24 hours after its last message, unless you select Keep chat. In the sidebar, it's listed under its chat. To go back to the chat, select Side chat of chat name at the top of the side chat.

Find a chat

The sidebar groups your chats under Chat sessions:
  • Starred: chats you starred.
  • Shared: chats you're sharing with others.
  • Temporary: temporary chats, with the time each one has left.
  • Recent: everything else, newest first.
A side chat is listed under the chat it came from. For more information, see Ask a question on the side.
To find a chat by what was said in it, search your chats. For more information, see Search your chats.
A dot next to a chat's name shows its state:
  • Working: the assistant is still answering.
  • Waiting for you: the assistant asked a question.

Search your chats

The search looks through the names and messages of all your chats, including temporary chats and side chats.
  1. In the sidebar, select Search chats.
  2. Type what you're looking for. Results appear as you type.
  3. Optional: To search only part of your history, select a time range: Past week, Past month, Past year, or Custom range. For a custom range, choose the From and To dates.
You get one result per chat, best first. Each result shows the chat's name, the passage that matched with your words marked, who wrote it and when, and how many more matches the chat has. A chat that matched by its name alone shows how it started.
The search also finds:
  • Longer words that start with a word you typed. For example, deploy finds deployment.
  • Similar spellings, so a typo still finds what you meant. These results come last, under Close matches.
To find a phrase exactly as you typed it, put it in quotes, for example "release plan". If no chat has all your words, the results show chats that have some of them, and say so.
Select a result to open the chat at that message. Your words are highlighted throughout the chat until you leave it or send a message. To go back to your results, select Search chats again.
You can also ask the assistant about earlier work. It can search your past chats for you. For more information, see How the assistant uses your past chats.

Rename a chat

Knowledge Worker Agent names each chat for you. To choose your own name, do one of the following:
  • In the sidebar, point to the chat, select ⋯, and then select Rename.
  • At the top of an open chat, select its name. Or select More actions (⋯), and then Rename.
Type the new name, and press Enter. To cancel, press Esc.

Star a chat

Select Star in the chat's ⋯ menu, in the sidebar or at the top of the open chat. A starred chat shows a star after its name at the top of the chat.
To remove the star, select Remove star in the same menu.

Delete a chat

  1. Do one of the following:
    • In the sidebar, point to the chat, select ⋯, and then select Delete.
    • In an open chat, select More actions (⋯), and then select Delete chat.
  2. Confirm.
If you're sharing the chat, the confirmation says so. Everyone you shared it with loses access immediately.
Deleting a chat doesn't delete its side chats. The chat's folder and files stay until its last side chat is deleted too.
If the chat has day notes, a second question asks whether to delete them too. Day notes are short summaries of what was worked on each day, and they're kept by default. For more information, see How the assistant uses your past chats.

Clean up old chats

To review chats you haven't opened in a while, see Tidy up your workspace.