Chat list and history

The sidebar, chat titles and actions, searching chats, the conversation map, the Trajectory and chat logs.

• Chats and workspaces in the sidebar

  How the sidebar organises your chats and workspaces - pinned and ungrouped chats, view and order options, archived chats and row marks - plus collapse, panels, chrome and shortcuts.

• Group, order and filter chats

  Choose how the sidebar groups and orders chats, show or hide archived ones, and know what Oda remembers.

• Pin, rename, fork or archive a chat

  Use a chat's menu to pin, rename, fork, archive or unarchive it, and stop running work before archiving.

• Chat titles

  How Oda names chats in the sidebar, how renaming pins a name, the limits on a name, and what Oda tidies before showing it.

• Chat statuses and notices

  What each chat shows in the sidebar: running and unread states, needs-you labels, badges, hover details and notices.

• Sessions: list and lifecycle

  The rules behind the chat sidebar: when a chat appears, how rows are arranged and kept up to date, naming, archiving, and the actions every chat view offers.

• Sessions and the transcript

  How a session works: what a chat keeps and shows, how a turn runs and ends, and what a branch inherits.

• Actions on a message

  Copy an answer, branch a chat into a new conversation, and read the usage of a finished turn.

• Search your chats

  Find a chat by name or content with Ctrl K: results, keyboard moves, query limits and errors, and how a long chat's older messages load.

• Search earlier chats

  What Oda can look up in your earlier chats on this computer, and how each search stays inside one workspace.

• The conversation map

  See every message of a chat as a map, follow the active path and other versions, and open any version by clicking its message.

• The Trajectory tab

  Open the Trajectory tab to replay a chat: browse turns, steps and tool calls, read recorded timing and token usage, inspect any record, and find the chat's log.

• Download a chat log

  Download a chat as a ZIP file, with its sub-chats and attached files, from the chat menu or the /export command.

• Chat history storage and search

  How chats are stored, indexed and searched on this computer, and what the cached label in the chat list means.