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Thread Management

Jan provides a straightforward and private solution for managing your threads with AI on your own device. As you interact with AI using Jan, you'll accumulate a history of threads. Jan offers easy tools to organize, delete, or review your past threads with AI. This guide will show you how to keep your threads private and well-organized.

View Thread History​

To view your thread history, follow the steps below:

  1. Navigate to the main dashboard.
  2. Locate the list of threads screen on the left side.
  3. To view a specific thread, simply choose the one you're interested in and then scroll up or down to explore the entire conversation.

Manage Thread via Jan Data Folder​

To manage your thread history and configurations, follow the steps below:

  1. Navigate to the Thread that you want to manage via the list of threads on the left side of the dashboard.
  2. Click on the three dots (⋮) in the Thread section.
  3. There are two available options to select:
    • Reveal in Finder: Opens the folder containing the thread history and configurations.
    • View as JSON: Opens the thread.json file in your default browser.

Clean Threads History​

To clean all the messages from a thread, follow the steps below:

  1. Navigate to the Thread that you want to clean.
  2. Click on the three dots (⋮) in the Thread section.
  3. Sleect the Clean Thread button.
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This will delete all messages in the thread while keeping the thread settings.

Delete Threads History​

To delete a thread, follow the steps below:

  1. Navigate to the Thread that you want to delete.
  2. Click on the three dots (⋮) in the Thread section.
  3. Sleect the Delete Thread button.
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This will delete all messages and the thread settings.