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Keep a conversation private or locked

Two ways to protect a conversation. Private, it teaches Aureole nothing: nothing from it is kept in its memory. Locked, it only opens with Touch ID or your login password. This guide shows both, and what each one protects.

A private conversation

“New Private Conversation”, in the File menu, or ⇧⌘N, or the menu of the new-conversation button , opens one. A small ghost  marks it, in the list and next to the model; the message field says so:

Aureole keeps nothing from it: no memory is drawn from it, and the model can’t add any. It still reads your existing memories. Messages still go to the model’s provider, which handles them under its own rules. The conversation stays in your list, like the others: delete it whenever you want.

A conversation is private from its creation, and stays so: an ordinary conversation can’t be made private.

Lock a conversation

The padlock  in the toolbar, ⇧⌘L, or a right-click in the list, “Lock conversation”: confirm with Touch ID or your login password. The conversation then shows a locked screen:

Its title stays visible in the list, with a padlock ; its content no longer shows anywhere: search only finds it by its title, without an excerpt, it can’t be exported, doesn’t open in another window without authentication, and the model can’t read it. It no longer feeds memory.

Unlock, and lock again

“Unlock”, on the locked screen, opens it for the session. It stays open while you’re looking at it; as soon as you leave it, another conversation, another app, its window closed, it locks again after the “Auto-relock Delay”, ten seconds at first, set in Settings›General. The display going to sleep locks it again at once.

To close it right away: “Lock Again”. To remove the lock for good: “Remove Protection…”, with one last authentication.

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