Chat archive
Some chats you want to keep but stop seeing every day. The archive moves them out of the sidebar without deleting anything, and you can pull them back at any time.
Archiving a chat
Open the per-row menu in the sidebar (or right-click the row) and pick Move to archive. The same option lives in the chat’s header menu and in a Space’s chat list, and the /archive slash command does the same. The chat disappears from the main list immediately.
Archiving also unpins the chat, stops a reply it is still generating (or takes it out of the queue), and closes it if it was open. Its folder and colour label stay with it.
Because a chat that vanishes with its only way back tucked away in Settings can read like a delete, archiving raises a Moved to archive notice naming the chat, with an inline Undo. It stays for seven seconds - longer while you hover it. Undo brings the chat back, but not its pin. Unarchiving gets no notice: its result is visible in the list.
The archive view
The archive lives at Settings → Archive. A quiet Archived row with a count also appears at the bottom of the sidebar whenever archived chats exist, and opens that tab, so nothing looks gone for good. The list shows the most recently archived chats first, each with the date it was archived and a Space tag for chats that belong to one. From the archive you can:
- Open an archived chat by clicking its title. Settings closes and the chat opens, whichever page you were on. It stays fully usable; the header shows an Archived pill so you know where you are, and its header menu offers Restore from archive.
- Unarchive to bring it back into the main list - into its folder, if it had one.
- Delete permanently from the row’s
…menu, after the same Delete this chat? confirmation as everywhere else (Delete chat). - Remove all - permanently delete every archived chat in one step, behind a confirmation because it is irreversible.
To park everything at once, Archive all on Settings → Data moves every live chat to the archive before you start fresh - and, as when you archive one chat, stops replies still running in them and closes the chat you had open. See Data management.
Archiving keeps the conversation intact. If you want it gone for good, pick Delete from the chat’s menu instead - or archive first and decide later.
The search palette deliberately skips archived chats, titles and messages alike, and they drop out of their Space’s chat list too. Unarchive a chat to bring it back into scope.