Conversation management

Conversation management on claude.ai is the collection of tools that let you organize, search, share, and maintain your chat history with Claude across sessions. At its simplest, this means renaming or deleting individual chats. More advanced features include grouping related chats into Projects with shared knowledge bases, searching past conversations by natural language, and enabling a memory synthesis system that automatically summarizes your preferences and prior work so Claude can reference them in future sessions. Projects act as self-contained workspaces: each project has its own document library (up to 200K tokens of context), its own chat history, and its own dedicated memory summary. This means context from a marketing project stays separate from context from a coding project, reducing confusion. Projects are available on paid plans (Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise). Memory synthesis runs automatically in the background and builds a rolling summary of your working style, preferences, and key facts. This summary is updated roughly every 24 hours and is injected into new conversations so you do not have to repeat yourself. Chat search lets paid-plan users retrieve specific information from older conversations using plain-language prompts. Incognito chats (signaled by a ghost icon) are excluded from both memory and chat history, useful for sensitive or exploratory work.