Conversations and tabs
Several conversations open at once, each with its own companion, its own draft, its own thread.
A conversation is a thread with one companion. Tabs let you keep several of them open, the way a browser does, and switch without losing your place in any of them.
Opening and closing#
New conversation in the sidebar starts a fresh one. So does the + at the end of the tab strip.
Recent in the sidebar lists the conversations you already have; clicking one opens it.
The × on a tab closes it, with no confirmation — the conversation itself is not deleted, only the tab. If you close the tab you were in, the next one along becomes active. If you close the last one, a fresh New conversation opens in its place, so the app is never showing you nothing.
There is no limit on how many tabs you can have open. The strip scrolls.
What a tab holds#
More than its position. Each tab separately remembers:
Its companion. The picker in the composer is per tab. One tab can be talking to the companion that has your project folders while another talks to one that has none.
Its draft. Half-typed messages survive switching away and back. You are not punished for going to look something up mid-sentence.
Its pending images. Attachments you have added but not yet sent stay attached.
Whether something arrived while you were elsewhere. A tab you are not looking at shows a small dot when its conversation has moved. Switching to it clears the dot.
Note
Because a companion is per tab and memory is per companion, the tab you type in decides which mind this conversation is filed into. Switching companion mid-conversation is allowed — just know that the rest of the thread lands with the new one.
Titles#
A conversation is called New conversation until it has something to be named after. The name shows in the tab, in the header, and in the Recent list.