# Viewing, deleting, and exporting the Amazon Q Developer conversation history
<a name="ide-chat-conversation"></a>

When you chat with Amazon Q in the integrated development environment (IDE), Amazon Q saves each of your chat tabs as a separate conversation. You can view, search for, and delete these conversations. You can also export them to Markdown or HTML format files.

Amazon Q stores your conversations on your local computer, in your home directory.

Amazon Q saves conversations for each workspace separately, so if you don't see your conversation history, it might be because you're in the wrong workspace. Amazon Q only displays the conversation history for the current workspace.

Use the following instructions to view, search for, delete, and export your conversations.

**To view and search for past conversations**

1. In your IDE, sign in to Amazon Q.

1. Open an Amazon Q chat tab.

1. Open the chat history by doing one of the following:
   + On the top-right of the chat panel, choose the **View chat history** button.
   + Press `ctrl+F` (Windows and Linux) or `⌘ F` (Mac).

1. Do one of the following:
   + Choose the conversation you want to view. Conversations are organized by date.
   + Use the search bar near the top of the chat history to find a conversation. Amazon Q finds conversations that match exactly the text you enter.

**To delete a single conversation**

1. In your IDE, sign in to Amazon Q.

1. Do one of the following:
   + In the chat tab of an open chat session, enter **/clear** to delete the contents of the chat tab.
   + Open an Amazon Q chat tab, and then open the chat history by doing one of the following:
     + On the top-right of the chat panel, choose the **View chat history** button.
     + Press `ctrl+F` (Windows and Linux) or `⌘ F` (Mac).

     In the conversation that you want to delete, choose the vertical ellipsis (⋮) and choose **Delete**.

**To export a conversation to Markdown or HTML**

1. In your IDE, sign in to Amazon Q.

1. Do one of the following:
   + With a chat session already started, on the top-right of the chat panel, choose the **Export** button to export the conversation displayed in the tab.
   + Open an Amazon Q chat tab, and then open the chat history by doing one of the following:
     + On the top-right of the chat panel, choose the **View chat history** button.
     + Press `ctrl+F` (Windows and Linux) or `⌘ F` (Mac).

     In the conversation that you want to export, choose the vertical ellipsis (⋮) and choose **Export** to export the conversation to a Markdown or HTML format file.

   By default, Amazon Q names the file `q-dev-chat-yyyy-mm-dd.md|html` and saves it in the root of your project.