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Chat with a Model

Jan organizes your conversations with a model into chats or threads, making it easy to track and revisit your interactions. This guide will help you effectively manage your chat history.

Creating New Conversation/Thread

  1. Click New Chat () icon on the bottom left of Jan.
  2. Select your preferred model in Model Selector in input field & start chatting.

Create New Thread

View Your Chat History

  1. Once you open Jan, the default screen is Chat
  2. On the left sidebar, you can:
  • View your Conversations and scroll through your history
  • Click any chat to open the full conversation

Favorites and Recents

Jan helps you quickly access important and recent conversations with Favorites and Recents in the left sidebar:

  • Favorites: Pin threads you use often for instant access. Click the three dots icon on the right of the thread and a context menu will pop up with the favorite option for you to click on.
  • Recents: See your most recently accessed threads for quick navigation.

Favorites and Recents

Edit a Chat Title

  1. Navigate to the Conversation that you want to edit title on the sidebar to your left
  2. Hover on the conversation and click on three dots () icon
  3. Click Rename
  4. Add new title & save

Context Menu

Delete Thread

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There's no undo for chat deletion, so make sure you REALLY want to remove it permanently.

When you want to completely remove a thread:

  1. Navigate to the Thread that you want to delete in left sidebar
  2. Hover on the thread and click on three dots () icon
  3. Click Delete

Delete Thread

Delete all threads at once

In case you need to remove all conversations at once:

  1. Hover on the Recents category and click on three dots () icon
  2. Select Delete All