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Temporary chats: ask, then leave no trace

For the questions you would rather keep to yourself. Nothing is saved, nothing is remembered, and Dopppel starts fresh.

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Some questions you just want to ask and be done with. A gift idea for someone who shares your computer. A worry you are not ready to talk about. Something you would rather not see again in your chat list next week.

Today we are adding temporary chats. A temporary chat is not saved and not remembered. When you leave it, it is gone for good.

Nothing kept, nothing learned

A temporary chat never shows up in your chat list, and search cannot find it. Dopppel learns nothing from it, so nothing you say in there turns into a memory.

It works the other way too. Inside a temporary chat, Dopppel does not look at your memories or your old chats. It starts clean, like it just met you. That is on purpose.

A dashed edge you cannot miss

You always know which kind of chat you are in. In a temporary chat, the message box gets a dashed edge. The line under it says "Temporary chat · not saved, not remembered". Both stay there the whole time.

You choose before you send your first message. You cannot turn it off halfway. To go back to a saved chat, just start a new one.

A few things stay off in there

Because nothing is saved, some things cannot work in a temporary chat. Dopppel cannot set you a reminder, since a reminder has to be saved to work.

You also cannot add files in a temporary chat, and it does not belong to a project.

Start one from the + button

  • Start a new chat, and tap the + in the message box.
  • Tap "Temporary chat" before you send anything.
  • Ask what you want to ask. The dashed box stays the whole time.
  • Leave the page when you are done. The chat is gone.

Temporary chats are free, like everything in Dopppel.

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