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title: "History"
description: "Ordinary, successfully created chats are saved in workspace history. Incognito chats are not retained in History: Core may persist them temporarily while the session is active,…"
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# History

Ordinary, successfully created chats are saved in workspace history. Incognito chats are not retained in History: Core may persist them temporarily while the session is active, then purges them on close or expiry, with a 24-hour upper bound. A first turn blocked by guardrails or one that fails before the conversation is created may also leave no history entry. The sidebar lists retained conversations under _Recents_.

1. #### Find a conversation

   Click **Search** in the sidebar (or press `⌘``K`) to open the command palette: it lists your recent chats and lets you jump straight to one. You can also scroll the sidebar under _Recents_ and click any conversation; the active one is highlighted.

![The search command palette listing recent chats and suggested actions](/manual/assets/product/chat-search-palette-20260813.webp)
_Search opens a command palette over the page: recent chats first, then actions like New Conversation and Projects._

2. #### Change grouping

   Click the sliders icon next to _Recents_ to open the _Group by_ menu. Choose _None_ (flat list), _Date_ (Today, Yesterday, This Week…), or _Project_ (grouped by project).

3. #### Start fresh

   The _New Conversation_ button at the top of the sidebar opens an empty conversation.

### Fork a conversation

Open a conversation's options menu in the sidebar or history bar and choose _Fork_ to copy the complete thread into a new conversation. Forking from an assistant message branches at that exact reply. The original stays unchanged, and the new conversation is independent without an origin/provenance chip.

### Pin, edit, retry, and steer

Use a conversation's menu to pin it (up to 100 pinned conversations), rename it, move it to a project, share it, or delete it. During a run you can queue another message, then edit or remove queued items. _Steer_ stops the current reply and sends the queued message next; message actions let you retry an assistant response or edit a historical user message to branch from that point.

### Drafts and Incognito

Unsent drafts are stored locally for the current user/workspace route and restored when you return to that route. Incognito disables draft persistence as well as history and Personal Memory.