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DOCUMENTATION · Chats

Chat and message actions

Screen in the app: Chats (#/chats). Chat settings open with the chat's actions button in the sidebar (Chat actions for …).

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Getting started
  • What MindDuck is
  • Installation
  • First launch
  • Connecting models
  • Access to your data and copies
Chats
  • The chat screen
  • Images and PDFs
  • Voice input
  • Context panel
  • Private chats
  • Finding chats
  • Chat and message actions
  • Web search and reading pages
  • Reading the answer
Memory
  • How memory works
  • Facts
  • Projects
  • Documents
  • Image descriptions
  • Trash
Search
  • Memory search
  • Local search index
History import
  • Import from ChatGPT and Claude
Sync and devices
  • How sync works
  • Connecting Google Drive
  • A second device
  • Recovery code
  • Managing devices
Backups and export
  • Backup
  • Restoring on a new device
  • Export
Settings
  • Settings map
  • Account
  • Models
  • Assistant
  • Updates
Privacy and security
  • What is stored where
Help
  • Support and diagnostics
  • App messages
  • Glossary
Getting started
  • What MindDuck is
  • Installation
  • First launch
  • Connecting models
  • Access to your data and copies
Chats
  • The chat screen
  • Images and PDFs
  • Voice input
  • Context panel
  • Private chats
  • Finding chats
  • Chat and message actions
  • Web search and reading pages
  • Reading the answer
Memory
  • How memory works
  • Facts
  • Projects
  • Documents
  • Image descriptions
  • Trash
Search
  • Memory search
  • Local search index
History import
  • Import from ChatGPT and Claude
Sync and devices
  • How sync works
  • Connecting Google Drive
  • A second device
  • Recovery code
  • Managing devices
Backups and export
  • Backup
  • Restoring on a new device
  • Export
Settings
  • Settings map
  • Account
  • Models
  • Assistant
  • Updates
Privacy and security
  • What is stored where
Help
  • Support and diagnostics
  • App messages
  • Glossary

Chat settings

In the Chat settings window:

  • Chat title and Save: rename the chat. The background model won't replace your own title.
  • Keep out of memory / Return to memory: make the chat private or return it to memory. See Private chats.
  • Copy link: copy a link to the chat to paste it into a document. See Links to chats and documents.
  • Export: save the chat into a readable HTML folder. See Export.
  • Describe images for search: describe the chat's images for search, usually for imported conversations. See Image descriptions.
  • Move to Trash: move the chat to the trash.

Project

A chat can be moved into a project:

  • in the Chat settings window or in the chat details (click the chat title in the header), choose the project in Move to project;
  • or drag the chat onto the project in the sidebar.

There you can also create a new project (Create new project) or take the chat out of a project (No project). About projects: Projects.

Link to a message

Every message has a Copy link to message button: it copies a link to that place in the conversation. Paste it into a document, and the link will take you straight back to the message.

Trash

A chat in the trash is kept for 30 days and then deleted for good. Until then you can bring it back: open it and click Restore, or find it in the trash. While a chat is in the trash, you can't write in it.

Delete a message

Every message has Delete message. Deletion is final: the text and attachments are erased, and a short Message deleted by you note stays in its place so the flow of the conversation isn't broken.

In the confirmation window:

  • Also delete the following assistant response: delete the assistant's answer to this message as well;
  • Facts saved from the messages being deleted: facts remembered from these messages. The checked ones are deleted completely. The unchecked ones stay, but are marked as having a deleted source.

Deletion removes the message from search too, and from other devices after sync.

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Updated October 7, 2026 · for version 0.2.12 · Found a mistake? Write to us

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  • Chat settings
  • Project
  • Link to a message
  • Trash
  • Delete a message
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