Browse or search your previous conversations.
Milo Casagrande
milo@ubuntu.com
Shaun McCance
shaunm@gnome.org

# View previous conversations

Shaun McCance

Highlighting text is quirky: #593733. If there's an actual highlighting going on, independent of the selection (like in yellow or something), we can use the term "highlight". Otherwise we need to use the term "select". Watch that bug.

Empathy automatically saves all your text conversations you have with your contacts. You can search through all of your previous conversations or browse previous conversations by contact and date.

You do not need to be connected to the Internet to view and search your previous conversations.

# Search previous conversations

You can perform a full-text search through all of your previous conversations.

From the Contact List window, choose View Previous Conversations. Alternatively, press F3.

Select the Search tab.

In the For field, type the text you want to search for. Click Find or press Enter.

Any conversations that matched your search terms will be shown in the list below the search field. By default, conversations are ordered by date.

Click on a conversation to view it. Empathy will select the text in the conversation that matched your search terms.

# Browse previous conversations

You can browse your previous conversations with your contacts or in chat rooms by date.

From the Contact List window, choose View Previous Conversations. Alternatively, press F3.

Select the Conversations tab.

Select an account from the drop-down list in the top left. A list of contacts and chat room for that account will be shown below.

Select a contact or chat room to view your previous conversations from. By default the most recent conversation will be shown.

You can browse your conversations by date. Days on which you had a conversation with the selected contact will be shown in bold text. Click a date to select it. Click the arrows next to the month and year to browse earlier dates.

You can search for text in the displayed conversation by typing into the search field at the top. The matching text will be highlighted.

You can quickly view the previous conversations with one of your contacts from the Contact List window. Simply right click the contact and choose View Previous Conversations. The Previous Conversations window will open with that contact already selected.