Conversations
Side panel & chat settings
The seven-tab panel beside every chat — character info, gallery, scenarios, similar characters, memory, plugins, and chat settings.
Everything that isn't the message stream lives in the side panel — a seven-tab strip you open from the chat. On desktop it slides in beside the conversation; on mobile it opens as a sheet. The conversation keeps running while it's open.
The seven tabs
| Tab | Icon | What's inside | Deep dive |
|---|---|---|---|
| Info | ℹ️ | The character's public profile — bio, tags, creator, sample of how they talk. | Finding characters |
| Gallery | 🖼️ | The character's images: avatar, reference art, and any gallery shots the creator published. | Image guidelines |
| Scenarios | 📖 | Pre-built contexts the creator authored (e.g. "Coworker", "Rival"). Switch the framing without leaving the chat. | Scenarios |
| Similar | 🎭 | Discover other characters with related themes and personalities. | Finding characters |
| Memory | 🧠 | Manage saved facts that carry across chats and the generated summaries for this conversation. | Memory |
| Plugins | 🧩 | Plugins active in this chat — prompt injectors, tools, and interactive buttons. | Plugins |
| Settings | ⚙️ | Reply, voice, experience, and chat-management settings. Covered below. | This page |
Memory views
The Memory tab separates two kinds of context that used to appear in different places:
- Learn from Chat stores facts about you, the character, or your relationship. These can carry across conversations.
- Conversation Memory shows the generated summaries used for older parts of the current conversation. You can edit a summary to correct what the AI remembers.
Chat Settings (⚙️)
The Settings tab is grouped into four sections. Only one section opens at a time, and its collapsed header shows the current key values.
Each row has a scope label: This character, This conversation, This device, or Account. Check it before changing a setting when you want to know whether the change follows you to another chat or device.
Replies & Generation
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| AI Model | Opens the model picker. Each model shows quality (real user A/B win-rate), speed (recent latency), and price multiplier. Choosing a model → |
| Reasoning Mode | Let the model think step-by-step before replying — higher quality, slower, more tokens. Some models are always-on. Reasoning mode → |
| NSFW Content Intensity | Three levels — Literary, Moderate, Explicit. Hidden when the creator has defined a custom NSFW prompt for the character. |
| Narration Style | First person ("I"), Third person ("he/she/they"), or AI Decide. |
| Response Length | Choose automatic, short, medium, or long replies. |
Voice & Input
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Voice | Pick the TTS voice used when messages are read aloud. Free voices use Edge TTS; Premium voices use MiniMax. Tap to preview before applying. |
| Voice Studio | Open the tools for cloning, designing, and managing custom voices. |
| Auto-play Voice | When voice mode is on, automatically play TTS for new replies. Turn it off to keep voice-style replies without audio — you can still tap any message to play it. Voice call mode always plays audio regardless. |
| Voice Auto-Send | Send transcribed voice input immediately instead of placing it in the composer for editing. |
Chat Experience
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Reply Suggestions | Toggle the smart-suggestion chips above the input. Smart suggestions → |
| First Response Enhancement | Show or hide the six-button panel under the first AI reply. First response → |
| Alternative Response | Allow the occasional side-by-side dual-model first reply. Dual comparison → |
| Reasoning Pane | Show the AI's thinking pane, and whether it auto-expands. |
| Message Appearance | Adjust message fonts, colors, and bubble styles on this device. |
| Chat Background | Choose a character-specific background, blur, opacity, and bubble spacing. |
Your interface language is an account preference and lives in Account Settings → Language, rather than inside one chat.
Chat Management
| Action | What it does |
|---|---|
| Chat History | Browse every past conversation you've had with this character. |
| Start New Session | Begin a fresh thread while carrying over the context and memories from the current one — useful when a chat gets very long. |
| Import Chat | Import a conversation from a JSONL file (SillyTavern-compatible). |
| Export Chat | Export this conversation as JSONL (SillyTavern-compatible) or plain text, for backup or sharing. |
| Convert to Novel | Turn the current conversation into a generated novel. |
| Delete Chat | Permanently delete the current conversation and its messages. This action sits at the bottom in the danger area. |
Related
- Chat overview — the whole chat screen mapped
- Memory — how the memory tab works in depth
- Plugins — what lives in the plugins tab