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Assistant

Chat History

Chat history is your chronological history of all Assistant conversations. Use it to reopen earlier work and continue without starting over.

What Chat History Contains

Every conversation you start in Assistant appears in chat history, organized by date. This creates an archive you can search and return to at any time.

Chat history interface

Chat history shows all your past Assistant conversations, organized by date.

Word Add-in users: The Word Add-in has its own Recent Chats dropdown for conversations started inside Word. These appear alongside your other conversations in the main Chat History page, but the Word Add-in provides a quick-access view. See Word Add-In Overview for details.

How to Find a Past Conversation

1

Open chat history

Click Chat history in the left navigation panel.

2

Search by keyword

Use the search bar at the top of the chat history panel. Search matches against conversation titles, message content, and attached document names.

3

Click result

Click any result to reopen the conversation.

4

Full context restored

Resume exactly where you left off. All documents, context, and conversation history are preserved.

Search is scoped to the current project if a project filter is active. To search across all conversations, clear the project filter first.

Label and Rename Conversations

Conversations auto-generate titles based on your first query, but you can rename them for easier retrieval:

  1. Hover over an entry in chat history.

  2. Click the options menu (three dots).

  3. Select Rename or Edit Label.

Suggested naming format: Matter Name — Task Description

Examples:

  • Smith v. Jones — Indemnification Analysis

  • Q2 NDA Batch Review

  • ABC Corp — Engagement Letter Draft

When to Use Chat History

Use chat history when you need to:

  • Continue a research thread from earlier in the day or week

  • Find a specific analysis you ran but didn't export

  • Reopen a drafting session to iterate on the output

  • Review the history of work on a particular matter

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