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Jan provides a straightforward and private solution for managing your threads with AI on your own device. As you interact with AI using Jan, you'll accumulate a history of threads. 
Jan offers easy tools to organize, delete, or review your past threads with AI. This guide will show you how to keep your threads private and well-organized.


        ### View Thread History
        To view your thread history, follow the steps below:
        1. Navigate to the main dashboard.
        2. Locate the list of threads screen on the left side.
        3. To view a specific thread, simply choose the one you're interested in and then scroll up or down to explore the entire conversation.


        ### Manage Thread via Jan Data Folder
        To manage your thread history and configurations, follow the steps below:
        1. Navigate to the Thread that you want to manage via the list of threads on the left side of the dashboard.
        2. Click on the **three dots (⋮)** in the Thread section.
        3. There are two available options to select:
            - **Reveal in Finder**: Opens the folder containing the thread history and configurations.
            - **View as JSON**: Opens the thread.json file in your default browser.


        ### Clean Threads History
        To clean all the messages from a thread, follow the steps below:
        1. Navigate to the Thread that you want to clean.
        2. Click on the **three dots (⋮)** in the Thread section.
        3. Sleect the **Clean Thread** button.

:::note
This will delete all messages in the thread while keeping the thread settings.
:::


        ### Delete Threads History
        To delete a thread, follow the steps below:
        1. Navigate to the Thread that you want to delete.
        2. Click on the **three dots (⋮)** in the Thread section.
        3. Sleect the **Delete Thread** button.


:::note
This will delete all messages and the thread settings.
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