Conversations

Your history

The sidebar on the left lists your chats, newest first, under Recent chats. They’re grouped by date. Aderra gives each chat a title from your first message. Click a chat to open it. New chat at the top of the sidebar (or Ctrl+Shift+O, ⌘+Shift+O on a Mac) starts a fresh one.

On a phone the sidebar is a drawer. Open it with the menu button at the top left.

Organise, rename and delete

Hover over a chat in the sidebar and click its ⋯ menu (on a phone the menu is always visible):

Pin: moves the chat to a Pinned section at the top. Unpin puts it back.
Rename: type a new title and press Enter, or press Esc to cancel.
Duplicate: makes a copy of the chat.
Change project / Remove from project: files the chat in a project (see below).
Archive: hides the chat from the sidebar without deleting it.
Delete: asks “Delete chat?”, then removes the chat and its messages for good.

Deleting a chat also deletes the images generated in it. Files you uploaded to the chat aren’t deleted with it. They stay in My Files until you delete them there (see Files and images).

To find archived chats, click your name at the bottom left of the sidebar and choose Archived chats. From there you can open a chat, unarchive it or delete it.

Settings → Data & Privacy has Archive all chats and, under the danger zone, Delete all chats. Delete all chats removes every conversation but not your files: uploaded files and generated images stay in My Files.

Projects

A project is a named folder for related chats, such as a client, a class or a long piece of work. It only groups chats. It doesn’t add instructions, files or model settings to the chats in it.

Create one: next to Projects in the sidebar, click All projects, then New project. Give it a name and, if you like, a description. (While you have no projects yet, New project also appears right in the sidebar.)
Add chats: in a chat’s menu, choose Change project and pick the project. Remove from project takes it out again but keeps the chat. To start a chat that’s already in a project, use New chat in … on the project’s row.
Manage it: a project’s menu has Open project, Edit project and Delete. Deleting a project doesn’t delete its chats. They just leave the project.

Chats in a project still appear under Recent chats too.

Bookmarks

Bookmarks are labels you put on chats. A chat can have several.

Add one: open the chat and click the bookmark button at the top of the screen (Add Bookmarks). Pick an existing bookmark or choose New Bookmark, give it a Title and, if you like, a Description. On a phone, it’s under Bookmarks in the More options menu at the top right. The button appears once a chat has its first message, and never in a temporary chat.
Filter by one: the Bookmarks button beside Recent chats in the sidebar shows only the chats with the bookmarks you tick. Clear all shows everything again.

Temporary chats

A temporary chat is for a conversation you don’t want to keep.

Turn on Temporary Chat (the dashed speech-bubble button at the top right) before your first message. On a phone, it’s in the More options menu. Once you send a message, the setting is fixed for that chat, and a Temporary Chat label stays at the top as a reminder.
It doesn’t appear in your history. Once you leave it, you can’t open it again from the sidebar, so copy anything you want to keep first.
It is deleted automatically. Each message, and each file you add, is removed 7 days after it was saved, so a long temporary chat disappears oldest first. Turn on Temporary Chat before you add files: files added before you switch it on are kept like normal uploads.
To make every new chat temporary, turn on Temporary Chat by default in Settings → Chat.

Temporary chats are billed and limited like any other chat.

Working with replies

Under each message is a row of buttons. What you see depends on whether it’s your message or Aderra’s:

Copy to clipboard copies the text.
Edit changes a message (see below).
Regenerate writes Aderra’s reply again. The old reply is kept as another version.
Continue appears when a reply was cut off before it finished. Click it to let Aderra carry on.
Fork starts a new chat from this point (see below).
Thumbs up and down rate the reply (see Feedback).

On the standard model, the latest reply also shows Retry unfiltered. See Chat basics.

Editing a message

Click Edit under one of your messages, change the text, then choose:

Update & rerun: saves your change and gets a new reply to it. The earlier version stays as another version.
Save: saves the change without getting a new reply.
Cancel: drops your changes.

While editing, Ctrl+S (⌘+S) saves, Ctrl+Enter (⌘+Enter) updates and reruns, and Esc cancels.

You can also edit one of Aderra’s replies, for example to tidy it before you continue. Save keeps your edit. Rerun discards your changes and writes a new reply instead.

Versions and branches

Each time you regenerate a reply or rerun an edited message, Aderra keeps every version. Where there is more than one, small arrows and a counter such as 2 / 3 appear under the message. Use them to step between versions. Each version carries on its own thread of the conversation, and the chat continues from whichever one you’re looking at.

Forking

Fork copies messages from this chat into a new one, so you can try a different direction, test another prompt or split a long thread, while the original stays as it was. Click Fork under the message you want to branch from, then pick what to copy:

Visible messages only: just the thread you’re looking at.
Include related branches: that thread plus the other versions along it.
Include all to/from here: every message leading up to it, including the neighbouring versions, whether or not you can see them. This is the default.

Tick Start fork here to copy from this message forward to the latest one instead. Tick Remember to use the same choice for every fork after this. There’s no setting to undo Remember later, so tick it only if you’re sure.

Images generated in the original chat stay with a fork, even if you later delete the original.

Two answers side by side

The ⊕ button at the top of a chat is labelled “Compare with a second model. Each message then runs on both and costs double.” Click it, and every message you send gets two replies, shown side by side. On a phone, it’s Add multi-conversation in the More options menu.

The second reply takes the chat’s settings at the moment you click. To compare the standard and unfiltered models, click ⊕ first, then flip Unfiltered for the main chat. To stop comparing, close the + Aderra row above the message box with its ×.

Feedback

Rate a reply with the thumbs under it:

Love this (thumbs up), then pick what was good: Accurate and Reliable, Creative Solution, Clear and Well-Written or Attention to Detail.
Needs improvement (thumbs down), then pick what went wrong: Didn’t match my request, Inaccurate or incorrect answer, Poor style or tone, Expected an image, Refused without reason, Lacked useful information or Other issue. Other issue opens a box where you can say more in your own words.

Your rating and any note you write are saved with the reply, in your conversation, and the Aderra team reviews them. It’s the most useful signal we get.

Export and import

Export a chat: open it, click the share button at the top right (Export/Share) and choose Export. On a phone, it’s in the More options menu. Choose a Filename and a Type:

markdown (.md), text (.txt), json (.json) or csv (.csv) for the text of the conversation
screenshot (.png) for a picture of what’s on screen

For JSON and CSV you can also tick Export all message branches to include every version.

Import chats from Aderra, ChatGPT or Claude:

Get the file. For ChatGPT or Claude, request a data export in that app. You’ll get an email with a download link to a zip file. Unzip it and find conversations.json. For Aderra, use a json (.json) export from above.
In Settings → Data & Privacy, next to Import conversations from a JSON file, click Import and choose the file.
Wait for “Conversations imported successfully”. The imported chats then appear in your history.

Imported chats are for reading. To carry one on, start a new chat and paste in what you need.