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Chats Manage your conversations -- create, organise, export, and delete chats. Everything stays encrypted on your device. What It Does Chats are your convers...

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Chats

Manage your conversations – create, organise, export, and delete chats. Everything stays encrypted on your device.

What It Does

Chats are your conversations with digital team mates. Each chat is individually encrypted, meaning only your devices can read the content. Chats sync automatically across all your signed-in devices.

Chat List

Your chats appear in the sidebar, sorted by most recent activity. They are grouped by time period: Today, Yesterday, Last 7 Days, and so on.

  • Icons and categories are assigned automatically based on your first message.
  • Unread badges show when a team mate has replied and you have not scrolled to the bottom of the response.
  • Pinned chats stay prioritized in the chat list.

How to Use It

Create a New Chat

  • Click the compose button in the sidebar, or
  • Press Ctrl/Cmd + K, then N.

Chat Actions (Context Menu)

Right-click (or long-press on mobile) any chat to see these options:

Action What it does
Pin / Unpin Keep a chat at the top of your list
Download Save the chat as an export file
Copy Copy the full conversation to your clipboard
Delete Permanently remove the chat from all your devices

Multi-Device Sync

Changes you make on one device – sending messages, deleting chats, pinning – appear on your other devices in real time.

Drafts

If you start typing a message but do not send it, your draft is automatically saved and synced across devices. See Drafts for details.

Tips

  • Use keyboard shortcuts to navigate between chats quickly. See Keyboard Shortcuts.
  • Scroll to the bottom of a response to mark the chat as read.
  • Downloaded chats include all messages and metadata – useful for backups or sharing outside OpenMates.