The threads list, and archiving

The threads pane

Threads opens on the right, as a sheet beside the page. Press ] to open or close it. Closed on a wide screen, it folds to a narrow spine at the page’s edge with Threads running up it; click the spine to open it again. New, at the top of the pane or on the spine, starts a thread.

The pane opens on your list of threads, newest first, under Today, This week, and Earlier. Under a thread’s title you may see the chapter or part it’s about, or how many threads share its title when there are several. The list shows your 100 most recent threads.

Choose a thread to open it in the pane. The arrow at the top left takes you back to the list.

What the list shows follows what you’re reading: a group’s threads while you’re in that group’s thinking, otherwise your own.

Conversations from your other AIs

When Cranes keeps some of your own words from a conversation with a connected AI, that conversation appears in your list too, marked with the app it happened in and named by the first thing you said there. Its line shows the app, how many passages were kept, and “Learning from this” once Cranes is.

Opening one shows only your kept words, not the whole chat, and says so. Choose Remove beside any passage you don’t want Cranes to learn from.

You can carry on the conversation right beneath those words, in the box at the bottom. Replies here can see what you said there. Nothing is sent back to the other app. More in Ideas kept from your conversations.

Find an old thread

Press ⌘ K (Ctrl K on Windows) and type part of its title. Search covers your 40 most recently active threads, including group threads. With nothing typed, it shows the most recent few.

Archive a thread

Open the thread, choose ··· in its bar, then Archive. You’re taken back to the list, and the thread leaves it. Archiving a group thread removes it for everyone in the group, and any member can do it.

Archiving doesn’t delete the thread, and it doesn’t undo anything. Your messages in it stay as entries, and your thinking keeps what it learned from them. To take back something you said, remove its entry; see Control how an entry is used. The thread then shows “You removed this message” in its place.