How to remember chats between browser reloads?

[krassowski]

Problem

I find it difficult to restore chats from previous sessions. I thin jupyter-chat should be able to write files on disk (say local storage for jupyterlite). I don't see an option for it.

Proposed Solution

Expose an option to auto-save chats in browser memory.

jupyter-chat is an implementation detail of ai so if it is possible maybe it should be documented?

Additional context

I remember jupyter-chat used to have an option to save to disk but don't see it in the docs anymore.

[brichet]

There is no such mechanism in @jupyter/chat package, only in the jupyterlab-chat extension, that saves chats on files using jupyter collaboration.

It could be nice to have an option to autosave the chats, and it should not be so difficult, the chats should be JSON serializable. I already explored it in some other projects (not available in open), but I can revive it in jupyterlite-ai.
Maybe @jupyter/chat could embed a function to serialize a chat model and restore it, but the logic to save it to disc, local storage, etc... should probably live in the extensions using it.

[brichet]

IMO it should no be set by default because it would be saved in the local storage:

• using it on a public computer may raise certain privacy concerns
• it can take a lot of space in the local storage

[krassowski]

Yes, I agree about it not being a default, but having a big "save" button in the UI or even better an "auto-save" toggle would be a huge UX improvement.

[krassowski]

Closing as fixed by #303 (did not get auto-closed due to missing "s").