Threads and pinning
Every question you ask lives in an Ask Thread — a persisted, resumable sequence of Ask Queries and their answers. The Threads panel down the left of the Ask page is where you manage them.
Start a thread
Section titled “Start a thread”- Open Ask.
- Type your question in the composer, or click one of the four onramp prompts on the empty state — Top themes, Sentiment, Disagreements, or Blockers. Each prompt’s label is the question that gets sent.
- Press send.
The thread is created on that first question, and it appears in the Threads panel as soon as the answer starts streaming. Its name comes from your first question until you rename it.
To start a fresh one at any point, click New thread at the bottom of the panel. This clears the current thread’s grounding and any staged images — it does not delete the thread you were in.
Resume a thread
Section titled “Resume a thread”Click any row in the Threads panel. The full history loads, along with whatever the thread was grounded in.
Rows are grouped into three sections:
| Section | Contains |
|---|---|
| Pinned | Every pinned thread, regardless of age |
| Today | Unpinned threads updated in the last 24 hours |
| Earlier | Everything else |
A section only renders when it has rows. Each row shows the thread name and a compact relative timestamp — now, 12m, 3h, then a date like Apr 14. A green pulsing dot replaces the timestamp area on the thread that is actively streaming.
Rename a thread
Section titled “Rename a thread”- Hover the row (or tab to it) and click the pencil.
- Type the new name — up to 120 characters.
- Press Enter, or click the check. Escape cancels.
Clicking away from the field also commits the rename. A blank name is ignored.
Renaming replaces the auto-generated name derived from your first question. Once a thread has a real name, the row shows the original first-question snippet as a second line.
Pin a thread
Section titled “Pin a thread”Click the pin on the row, or the pin button in the thread header. Pinned threads move to the Pinned section and stay there no matter how old they get. The pin icon also renders inline beside the thread’s name so a pinned thread is identifiable when it scrolls past.
Click it again to unpin.
Find a thread
Section titled “Find a thread”Type into Search threads at the top of the panel. Filtering is by thread name and applies to the threads already loaded — the panel loads up to 50.
If nothing matches you get “No threads match” rather than an empty panel.
Delete a thread
Section titled “Delete a thread”- Open the thread.
- Click the overflow button in the thread header.
- Choose Delete thread.
The thread is archived and disappears from the panel, and Ask drops you into a fresh empty thread. There is no undo in the UI.
Rate an answer
Section titled “Rate an answer”Below each answer are a copy button and thumbs up / thumbs down. Copy puts the answer on your clipboard as clean markdown — prose, headings, bullets, and markdown tables, with rendered Ask Artifacts skipped rather than pasted as raw JSON.
Clicking the same thumb again clears the rating.