Sidebar — Conversations, Favorites, Settings

Navigate your conversation history and tune Pria from the left sidebar.

The left sidebar is your home base — it pins to the screen by default and groups everything related to your past activity and basic configuration:

┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│  [🔍 Search]              [📌]  │   ← global search + pin/unpin
├─────────────────────────────────┤
│  ▎🔖 Conversations  [7]    [+]  │   ← always expanded
│   New Conversation, May 19       │
│   ALN Resume Assistant, …        │
│   Free Instance Chat …           │
│   ... (scrolls independently)    │
│                          ✕ Clear │   ← only when a course is selected
├─────────────────────────────────┤
│  ▎⭐ Favorites  [2]             │   ← always expanded
│   Friday, May 19, 2026           │
│   ⭐ This is an example…         │
│   ... (scrolls independently)    │
├─────────────────────────────────┤
│  ▎⚙ Settings              ▶    │   ← collapsed by default, click to expand
└─────────────────────────────────┘

Two key rules:

1. Conversations and Favorites are always open. They split the available sidebar height equally and each scrolls independently.
2. Settings is the only collapsible section. Click the header to expand; the right-chevron flips to a down-chevron when it’s open.

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Search + Pin

The top toolbar holds two controls:

Control	Shortcut	What it does
Search input	Ctrl + F	Open the in-app search panel. Searches inside the active conversation by default; you can broaden the scope to every Digital Twin you can access.
📌 Pin	—	Toggle the sidebar between pinned (always visible) and floating (auto-hide). The icon turns blue while pinned.

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Conversations

Each entry in the Conversations list is a separate thread Pria has with you — the same conversation may carry many back-and-forth turns (dialogues) inside it.

A new conversation is auto-created when you:

• Start a new chat with an assistant
• Switch Canvas classes using the same Digital Twin
• Click the + button at the right edge of the Conversations header

Switch conversations

Click any entry in the list to load that conversation into the main panel. The currently-active conversation is highlighted with a brighter background.

Rename or delete

Hover a row to reveal a pencil icon on the right. Click it to open the rename dialog, where you can also delete the conversation. Renames sync to your other devices immediately.

Dialogue count

Conversations with more than one back-and-forth show a small “N dialogues” hint on the right. Quick way to find the longer threads.

Clear filter

If you select a conversation as a filter (e.g. via search), a slim × Clear Selected chip appears at the bottom-right of the list. Click it to widen the view back to all conversations.

Deletion is permanent. A deleted conversation can’t be recovered — all its dialogues go with it. Consider exporting your data first (Your Profile → Your Data → Export my data) if you need a backup.

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Favorites

Star any response in the conversation panel and it lands here, with the original conversation context preserved. Favorites are listed newest-first and labelled with the source conversation, so you can see at a glance which thread an insight came from.

1. Save a Favorite

   In the conversation panel, hover the response you want and click its ⭐ star. The amber outline fills.

2. Recall it from the sidebar

   Open the Favorites section, click the row — Pria opens the parent conversation and scrolls straight to the favorited message.

3. Rename or unfavorite

   Hover a row to reveal the pencil icon. From there you can give the favorite a custom name (handy for one-line summaries of useful answers) or remove it.

Favorites are your personal knowledge base. Bookmark the responses you’ll come back to — model decisions, snippets you reuse, code patterns, key explanations — and they become an instantly-searchable second brain rooted in your conversations rather than generic web content.

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Settings (collapsed by default)

Click the Settings header at the bottom of the sidebar to expand it. The chevron on the right flips from ▶ to ▼.

The expanded section is a short menu of jumps into Pria’s two settings Lightboxes (the heavy-lift config used to live inline here — it now lives in dedicated Lightboxes for a cleaner sidebar):

Personal

Opens Your Profile in a Lightbox. Tabs inside:

Tab	Use it to…
General	Edit display name, profile picture, basic account info, and check which Digital Twin you’re connected to.
Personalization	Toggle dark mode, set Remember History, enable Location services, enable Speech-to-Text.
Knowledge	Pick your Retrieval Mode (Disabled / RAG Only / RAG + KAG Fusion) and the orthogonal Search Only toggle. Same controls the [+] → Knowledge menu exposes.
Your Data	See, export, and delete the personal data Pria holds about you (dialogues, files, memory, assistants, feedback, sessions).
Security	Change password, manage MFA.
Google Cloud	Connect / revoke Google Workspace (Gmail, Drive, Calendar, etc.).
Canvas / LTI	Inspect the Canvas launch context.
Billing	Credit balance, payment history, invoices.
Developer / API	Manage API keys (admin / super only).

Instance (admin only)

Opens Instance Settings in a Lightbox. Tabs inside cover the model picker, RAG / KAG configuration, Tools, Assistants, Voice (Convo model + per-provider voice options), Invite, and Billing for the active Digital Twin.

See the Admin Guide for full reference of each tab.

Both Lightboxes can also be reached from the [+] → Settings action menu — the sidebar shortcut is for convenience.

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Remember History — what it does

Inside Your Profile → Personalization, the Remember History slider controls how many previous dialogues Pria includes in the context window for each new turn.

Value	Behaviour
0	Pria treats every turn as the start of a fresh conversation. Useful for one-shot lookups where prior context would mislead.
3–5 (default)	Balanced — Pria has enough context for follow-ups without the prompt blowing up token costs.
6+	Pria automatically compacts older dialogues into summaries (keeps continuity for long threads while saving tokens).
10+	Use sparingly. Best for sustained projects where you need very long-range continuity. Higher tokens, higher cost.

Suggested per use case:

• Quick lookups: 1–3
• General chat: 3–5
• Learning / tutoring: 5–7
• Programming / complex projects: 7–12
• Creative writing with character continuity: 8–15

Compaction kicks in at 6 — anything above that gets older turns rolled into concise summaries automatically.

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Collapsed sidebar / mini icons

When you unpin the sidebar (or on small screens), it collapses to a thin icon strip on the left:

• 🔖 Conversations
• ⭐ Favorites
• ⚙ Settings
• 💬 New conversation

Click any icon to expand the sidebar back into the section you wanted. The currently-active highlight tracks the last button you clicked.

Selecting a conversation no longer auto-collapses the sidebar — whatever pinned / unpinned state you set survives across conversation switches. (Previous behaviour: the sidebar always closed after every selection. Removed.)