Manage Your Chat History

Every question you ask is saved in a chat, listed in the sidebar while Ask is open. You can start a new chat at any time, rename one, or delete it. Your chats are stored on your computer, in Elephas’s encrypted database, and sync only to your own devices if you turn on Personal Sync.

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Before you start

Chats belong to a workspace. You see the chats of the workspace you are in: your Personal workspace, or a Team workspace. Switch workspaces with the workspace switcher at the top of the sidebar.

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Steps

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Start a new chat

Click New Chat at the top of the sidebar, press ⌘N on Mac or Ctrl+N on Windows, or choose Chat › New Chat. Elephas opens an empty chat with your current Brains chosen. A chat is saved when you send its first question. Its title is the start of that question.

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Find an old chat

Click Ask in the sidebar (⌘2 on Mac, Ctrl+2 on Windows). Your chats are listed newest first under Today, Yesterday, Previous 7 days and Earlier. Click one to open it. Home also lists your recent questions under Last Asked. A chat you open keeps the Brains and documents it was asked about, so a follow-up searches the same place.

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Rename a chat

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Delete a chat

Deleting a chat removes the questions and answers. It does not touch your documents or Brains. The steps are the same on Mac and Windows. Only the shortcut keys differ.

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How it works

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Where your chats are stored

Your chats, their answers and their citations are stored on your computer, in the same encrypted database as your Brains and index. They are not kept on an Elephas server. See Where your data is stored. When you ask a question with Elephas AI or your own API key, the question and a few recent messages from that chat are sent to get the answer. Your other chats are never sent. See What data is sent to AI.

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Whether chats sync

• Personal workspace, Sync off: chats stay on this computer only.
• Personal workspace, Sync on: finished chats sync to your other devices, end-to-end encrypted. Deleting a chat on one device deletes it on the others. Answers still being written are never synced. See What syncs.
• Team workspace: your chats are private to you. Other members, Admins and the Team Owner can’t read them, even when you ask about a shared Team Brain. See Team Brains.

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Chats are separate per workspace

A chat can only use Brains from its own workspace. You can’t mix a Team Brain and a Personal Brain in one chat. That keeps one client’s or one company’s material from mixing with another’s.

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Troubleshooting

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