Threads

Branch off any answer

Most of the time you talk to Chalie in a straight line — one message, one reply, next message. But sometimes you want to dig into one specific answer without derailing everything else. Reply directly to any answer and it opens into a thread: a focused side conversation that branches off that exact reply, while your main conversation stays exactly as it was.

Getting started:

• Hover over any answer and click the reply icon to branch it into a thread.
• Keep asking follow-ups inside the thread — it remembers everything said there.
• Come back to the main conversation any time; nothing you did in the thread changes it.

The thread panel

Opening a thread slides in a focused panel showing that whole exchange from the start — your original question, Chalie’s answer, and every reply since. It’s a separate space: you can have a thread open with its own back-and-forth running while the main conversation sits untouched behind it.

Close the panel and reopen the thread later — everything is exactly as you left it.

Automatic labels

The first time you reply into an answer, Chalie quietly reads that opening exchange and gives the new thread a short topical label — three to five words, enough to recognize it in a list. This happens on its own in the background; you don’t need to name anything. The label appears in your conversation list moments after the thread is created, without needing to refresh.

Finding a thread again

Every thread you’ve branched off is searchable. Open search (the search icon, or ⌘K / Ctrl+K) and type a keyword — Chalie matches it against anything you said inside that thread, or against its auto-generated label, so you can find a thread either by what you asked or by what it turned out to be about.

Setting how hard Chalie thinks

Each thread has its own thinking-effort setting, separate from the main conversation and from every other thread. Leave it on Auto and Chalie decides per-message how much deliberation a reply needs, same as normal. Pin a thread to Medium or High when you want it to always think harder — useful for a thread where you’re working through something genuinely difficult and don’t want it second-guessing whether the question deserves the effort.

The setting sticks to that thread. You can have one thread pinned to High for a hard problem while everything else runs on Auto.

Keep typing into a busy thread

If a thread is still generating a reply, sending another message doesn’t interrupt it and doesn’t get lost — it queues. The moment the thread finishes what it was doing, everything you queued up sends together as one follow-up. This means you can fire off a few follow-up thoughts in a row without waiting for each reply first; they’ll all be there, in order, the moment the thread is ready.

The main conversation and any open thread queue independently — being busy in one never blocks or queues anything in the other.

How threads relate to memory

A thread’s content isn’t lost once you leave it. Like the rest of your conversation, what happens inside a thread feeds into Chalie’s memory over time, so something you worked through in a thread can still come up later in an ordinary conversation. See Memory for how that recall works.

Threads are for this conversation’s detour — a place to dig into one answer without cluttering the main line. They’re not a separate memory system, just a separate view onto the same conversation.