Every conversation in Bloom saves automatically as you chat, there is no Save button. To find a past conversation, open the left sidebar in the chat view, where your sessions are listed newest first under any pinned items. Click one to reopen it and continue exactly where you left off, including the canvas state. Use the ... menu on each row to Pin, Rename, or Delete.
Bloom keeps each chat scoped to a single Bloom (subject). The list you see in the sidebar is filtered to whichever Bloom you have open, so a conversation about MATH1120 will not appear when you switch to your Biology Bloom.
Before you start
- You need a signed-in Bloom account at app.bloom.study. Guest users (anyone using Bloom without an account) get their own conversation list, but it lives only on the guest session and is not transferred until you sign up.
- You need to be inside a Bloom, open one from Manage Blooms first. The conversation list always belongs to the Bloom you are currently in.
- Conversations are private to you. Other students cannot see your history. Educators see aggregated analytics (most-asked topics, common misconceptions).
Step 1: Open the conversation sidebar
Inside any Bloom, the conversation sidebar sits on the left of the chat view. If it is collapsed, click the sidebar toggle in the top-left corner. On mobile, tap the menu icon to open it as a drawer.
The list loads your 10 most recent conversations first, then loads more automatically as you scroll toward the bottom. Pinned conversations are grouped at the top with a pin icon next to the name.
Step 2: Reopen a past conversation
Click any row in the list. Bloom loads the full message history, restores the associated canvas document if there is one, and places the cursor in the chat input. You can keep typing as if you never left.
Step 3: Rename, pin, or delete
Hover over any conversation in the sidebar and click the ... button that appears on the right of the row. The dropdown gives you three options:
- Pin: keeps a conversation at the top of the list, above all unpinned items. Useful for a long-running revision thread or a canvas draft you keep coming back to. You can pin up to 10 conversations per Bloom; if you exceed that you will see a destructive toast: “You can only pin up to 10 conversations.”
- Rename: Bloom auto-names new conversations based on your first message, but the original name is rarely the best one. Click Rename, type a new title (up to 200 characters), and press Enter or click outside the field to save.
- Delete: opens a confirmation dialog titled Delete Conversation with the message “Are you sure you want to delete <name>? This action cannot be undone.” Click the red Delete button to confirm. The conversation is removed from your sidebar immediately.
Step 4: Start a new chat or branch off
To start fresh, click New Chat at the top of the sidebar (keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+O on Windows, ⌘⇧O on Mac). This clears the chat view and canvas, and the new conversation only appears in the sidebar after you send your first message.
To branch off mid-conversation without losing the original thread, hover over any of your earlier user messages and click the Edit (pencil) button. Change the wording and confirm, Bloom creates a new branch from that point and generates a fresh response, while the previous branch is preserved underneath. This is useful when an answer leads somewhere unexpected and you want to explore an alternative phrasing without abandoning what you already had.
Common issues
“Limit Reached” when I try to pin
You already have 10 pinned conversations in this Bloom. Unpin one (open the ... menu and click Unpin) before pinning another.
“Delete failed” toast after confirming
The destructive toast reads “There was a problem deleting the conversation. Please try again.” This is almost always a transient network issue. Wait a few seconds and try again. If it persists, refresh the page and retry, the conversation is still there until the API confirms the delete.
My conversations are missing after switching Blooms
The sidebar list is per-Bloom. Conversations from Year 11 Biology will not show in your MATH1120 Bloom. Switch back to the Bloom where you originally chatted and they will reappear.
I was a guest and my chats are gone after signing up
Guest conversations are stored against a temporary guest session, not your Bloom account. Once you create a real account, future chats are saved to your account and the guest history is no longer accessible from the new sidebar.
What’s next
- Learn how Bloom uses your canvas alongside chat → AI Chat & Learning
- Set up a Bloom from scratch → Create your first Bloom
- Open Bloom and pick up an old conversation → app.bloom.study