Manage your chats

Your chats are in the sidebar. Right-click a chat to rename, favorite, archive, move, export or delete it.

Find a chat

1. Press Ctrl+K, or click Search chats at the top of the sidebar.
2. Type a few words. BoltAI looks through chat titles and the text of your messages. A chat shows up when it contains every word you typed. Chats whose title matches come first.

To open one of the first nine chats in the list, press Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+9.

If you have many chats, click Load more chats at the bottom of the list.

Find text in the open chat

1. Press Ctrl+F. The Find in chat bar opens.
2. Type what you're looking for. Press Enter for the next match and Shift+Enter for the previous one.
3. Press Esc to close the bar.

Rename a chat

BoltAI names new chats for you.

1. Right-click the chat in the sidebar and choose Rename Chat.
2. Type the new name and confirm.

You can also rename the open chat in the Inspector: press Ctrl+I, click Info, then Edit next to Title.

To change how new chats get their names, open Settings › General and set Mode under Title Generation: Off, Auto, Prompt or Custom.

Favorite or archive a chat

• Favorite: right-click the chat and choose Add to Favorites.
• Archive a chat you're done with but want to keep: right-click it and choose Archive Chat. To bring it back, choose Unarchive Chat.

To see only your favorites or your archived chats, click the Chats heading in the sidebar and choose Favorites or Archived. Choose Chats to go back to all your chats.

Move a chat into a project

Drag the chat onto a project in the sidebar, or right-click it and choose Move to, then the project. To take it out of a project, choose Move to › No Project. See Projects.

Duplicate a chat

Right-click the chat and choose Duplicate Chat. The copy has all the messages and is named after the original, with "Copy" at the end. Use it to take the chat in another direction and keep the original as it is.

To branch from a single message instead, see Work with messages.

Start fresh without a new chat

In a long chat, you can stop sending the earlier messages to the model and keep them on screen.

1. Open the chat.
2. Press Ctrl+Shift+K, or right-click the chat in the sidebar and choose Reset Context.

A Context Cleared line appears in the chat. From then on, the model only sees the messages after it. To undo it, press Ctrl+Shift+K again, choose Restore Context, or point at the line and click Clear Context Marker.

Delete a chat, or get it back

To delete a chat, right-click it and choose Move to Trash.

Deleted chats go to Recently Deleted. To see them, click the Chats heading in the sidebar and choose Recently Deleted. Right-click a chat there and choose:

• Restore to bring it back
• Delete Permanently… to remove it for good. This can't be undone.

Delete every message in a chat

To keep the chat but empty it, open it and press Ctrl+Shift+D, or right-click it in the sidebar and choose Delete All Messages…. BoltAI asks first. This can't be undone.

Link to a chat from your notes

Right-click the chat and choose Copy Deep Link. Paste the link into a note, a task or a document. Clicking it opens the chat in BoltAI.

Export a chat

• As a BoltAI Chat file: right-click the chat, choose Export Chat…, and pick where to save it. The file is a .json file.
• As Markdown: open the chat, press Ctrl+I, click Info, then Export… next to Markdown (.md).

To save a single message, see Work with messages.

Temporary chats

A temporary chat isn't saved. It doesn't appear in your chat list, and Memory is off.

1. Press Ctrl+Alt+T. You can also start a new chat with Ctrl+N and click the temporary chat button in the title bar.
2. Chat as usual. The chat is gone when you leave it.

A temporary chat can't be saved later. If you might want to keep it, use a normal chat.

To make every Instant Chat Bar chat temporary, see Instant Chat Bar.