[improvement] Saving chat

[rotello]

it would be nice to able to save chat into a new note

[brianpetro]

Yes! I do plan on saving chat history. But I planned on saving it in the background instead of as a note. This way, chats could be reloaded into the chat window.

I would like to know more about how you want them saved as notes.

Is there anything specific about how you would like to be able to save it to a note?

Do you have any specific thoughts on the formatting if it were to be saved to a note?

Do you think a "Copy to clipboard" button would suffice?

Thanks for your continued contributions!
Brian🌴

[rotello]

I am not technical at all so I don't know how what I am gonna say is difficult / easy.

YES - A copy to clipboard would suffice for sure (copy, CMD+N, paste is super fast)

the formatting should be easy enough to edit (so simple text, with a break line between question and reply - exactly as it s now if you select all, copy paste)

The "save" as a note would be great coz i can create a folder where all the notes go, they are searchable / future proofed, i can delete, edit, move the part i need and generally doing some kind of maintenance. -
but i understand that in this way they could no be loaded into the chat window... with ChatGPT 4 how much is important the previous content for getting better reply? on version 3.5 not so much
and the second issue is that you need to create a "negative folder" for not indexing the AI-generated text

maybe you can save in the background AND have manually to move into notes. (a button near the + or something)

at the moment it s frustrating to have 10 mins chat and losing it.

[brianpetro]

@rotello that is insightful and will help me better approach the implementation of these features related to saving, thank you!

[sam1am]

It does seem that saving it as a note would add a memory of the conversation you could refer to later, right? That would be cool.

[brianpetro]

@rotello a copy button has been added in the v1.4.0 update.

Also, chat history is in the works @sam1am

The 1.4 update includes a backend update that enables the chat history. But the UI has yet to be implemented.

[pinuke]

related: #81

[brianpetro]

Chat history added in v1.4.6

[SkyStreet]

Thx for updating! Well, for me now the question becomes where the history is saved in vault? How can I delete it? And I could not find the copy button while there are 4 buttons up there including 'smartview', 'save', 'history' and 'new chat'.

[brianpetro]

@SkyStreet look for the history in the .smart-connections/chats folder. It's hidden, so you'll have to use your normal file explorer to find it. Deleting from the UI will come soon.

The copy a message button is in the bottom right corner of messages from the AI. Is that what you're looking for?

[SkyStreet]

@brianpetro perfectly solved. thx.

[avataraustin]

If i'm not mistaken currently I need to hit the copy button in the chat for each piece of the dialogue between me and chatgpt in the chat window if I want to copy it into a note to work with in Obsidian. I agree with OP that it could be very helpful to have a button that just grabs the whole chat into a new obsidian note. I don't think it needs to be too fancy, its just a rather cumbersome process right now. It could be as simple as just having a linespace between each question and response.
It could also simply be helpful if there was a button to copy the whole chat (rather than copying each piece of the dialogue) and then the user could just past it into a new note.
I hope I am not missing this feature if it already exists somewhere, but I do not see it when checking.

[LinuxIsCool]

I believe the app should have a feature "Save chat as note" That dumps the whole chat to a new note in a specified folder from settings.

[brianpetro]

@LinuxIsCool yes!

In v2.1 the whole chat history will be in markdown format, with one note per thread 😊

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[brianpetro]

And version 2.2 implements canvas format for saving Smart Chats 🌴

[brianpetro]

Recorded response https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l1R5zBqPP0