Managing conversations
Rename, search, archive, export and delete your chats.
Every conversation you have ever started is kept. This page covers finding them again, tidying them up, and getting them out of Reverie.
Your chat list
Conversations live on the History page at /app/chats, under the Chats tab — Stories and Novels have their own tabs beside it. A character's own page also lists the chats you have had with them.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Search titles and messages... | Matches text in conversation titles and in the messages themselves |
| Conversation status | Switches between Active and Archived |
| Row ⋯ menu | Rename, Archive or Restore, Timeline, Delete |
| Delete active | Bulk-deletes every active conversation |
Timeline opens the branch view for that character — see Forking conversations.
Renaming
⋯ → Rename opens Name this conversation. Give it something you will recognise later; leave the field empty and the list falls back to the character's name.
Archiving
Archive moves a conversation out of the active list without deleting anything, and Restore brings it back. Archived conversations keep all their messages, and two things treat them differently from active ones:
- Delete active leaves them alone.
- Characters never send proactive messages into an archived conversation.
That makes archiving the right tool for a chat you want to keep but stop hearing from.
Deleting
Deleting a conversation is permanent. It removes the conversation and every message in it, and it cannot be undone. Delete active does the same thing to every active conversation at once — archived ones are kept, but nothing else is recoverable.
You can delete one conversation from its row's ⋯ menu, or from inside it: Chat Settings → Chat Management → Delete This Chat.
Exporting
Chat Settings → Chat Management → Export Chat opens Export Chat History, with four formats:
| Format | Best for |
|---|---|
| JSONL | Re-importing — SillyTavern compatible |
| Markdown | Readable backup, easy to paste elsewhere |
| Plain text | A simple transcript |
| HTML | A page for reading or printing to PDF |
The HTML export is a styled transcript with avatars, timestamps, print styling and a dark-mode variant that follows the reader's system setting. Images in the conversation are linked from Reverie rather than embedded, so the saved page needs a connection to show them.
Importing
Chat Settings → Chat Management → Import Chat brings a conversation over from another platform. Two constraints matter:
- The target chat must be empty — "Import only works on an empty chat."
- The file must be
.jsonl,.json,.txtor.md, and at most 10 MB.
Reverie detects the format itself and previews how many messages it found, and how they split between you and the character, before anything is written. See Importing your history.
Inside a long conversation
- Message navigation — the marker rail beside a long transcript. Hover a marker to preview that message and click to jump to it; on a touch device, drag the rail to scrub.
- Chat Settings → Chat Management → View Chat History lists your other conversations with this character without leaving the one you are in.
- New conversation, in the chat header, starts a fresh chat with the same character.
- Chat Settings → Conversation Setup → Start New Session with Memory compresses the conversation into a short background and opens a new chat that already has it. Your persona, scenario, chat setup, installed plugins and saved memories come along; the messages stay behind in the original. The opening message is generated like a normal reply, so it costs credits at your model's rate.
- Chat Settings → Chat Management → Convert to Novel turns the conversation into a novel.
Related
- Forking conversations — branches, and the Timeline view
- Sharing a conversation — publishing one by link
- How memory works — what a new session carries over
- Importing your history — supported sources and what survives
- Side panel & settings — where Chat Management sits