Organise conversations, projects and exports
A month of AI chat turns into a wall of history you cannot navigate. This page sets up the four things that fix that: projects, pinning, full-text search and export. When you finish, any conversation you had four weeks ago is two keystrokes away, and you can pull a clean copy of it out of the browser.
How do I group chats into projects?
Every chat is stored on your account with a title, the model it used and a pin state.
- Rename a chat from its entry in the sidebar. A clear title is what search matches against later.
- Pin the chats you return to daily. Pinned chats stay at the top of the sidebar.
- Create a project — a folder — in the sidebar, then drag a chat into it. That is the whole flow; there is no separate move dialog.
Projects are scoped to the surface they were created in, so a project you make in Chat stays in Chat.
How do I find an old conversation?
Press Cmd+K to open the command palette and type at least two characters. The search runs over the titles and the message bodies of your own chats only, and returns matching chats with a snippet showing the hit in context.
This is the payoff of the whole page: instead of scrolling, you type three words you remember saying and land on the turn.
How do I get a conversation out of the browser?
Open the conversation and use the export button in the header. It opens a two-item menu:
- The first item downloads the conversation as a Markdown file — headings per turn, ready to paste into notes or a document.
- The second downloads it as JSON — the raw message array, for scripting or archiving.
Both files are named synapsex-YYYY-MM-DD with the matching .md or .json extension, and both are generated in your browser, so nothing is uploaded to produce them.
Use Markdown when a human will read it. Use JSON when a program will.
Which settings make history easier to read?
Settings > Appearance controls how much the app shows you:
| Preference | Default | Why change it |
|---|---|---|
| Layout: sidebar or fullscreen | Sidebar | Fullscreen gives the conversation the whole window; sidebar keeps history one glance away. |
| Conversation previews in history | On | Turn off for a denser sidebar when you have hundreds of chats. |
| Prompt suggestions | On | Turn off if the starter prompts get in your way. |
| Show tool invocations | On | Keep on to see when the assistant used a tool; turn off for a cleaner transcript. |
| Theme: System, Light or Dark | System | Follows your operating system unless you pick one explicitly. |
Keyboard shortcuts
These four are bound in the app:
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Cmd+Shift+U | New chat |
Cmd+K | Search your chats |
Cmd+B | Toggle the sidebar |
Cmd+Shift+P | Open the model picker |
On Windows and Linux, Cmd+K and Cmd+B also work as Ctrl+K and Ctrl+B. The full list is in Keyboard shortcuts.
Related
- Files and documents — attachments live inside these conversations.
- Choosing a model — the model is saved per conversation.