Keeping a chat line

A useful explanation in chat can become part of the node itself. Keep takes a line from a node's room and makes a node from its words. The resulting node belongs to the person who wrote the line.

Keeping is free. Keeping your own line is immediate. Keeping another person's line requires their approval.

Ask to keep a line#

Open the shared node's Current room and find the line. Use Keep beneath it, or right-click it and choose Keep this line. With keyboard focus on a line, Shift + F10 or the Menu key opens its actions.

Read the response. Keep request sent. means the action was accepted. For someone else's line, it is a request, not a completed keep.

The line must still be available, readable and eligible to keep. A hidden, faded or already-kept line cannot become a second kept node. You also need permission to place the result in that room. A posting pause can prevent a keep.

The Keep control is for a node's room. Global, direct messages and private group chats do not offer that control. If you opened a topic through the room picker, open its node's Current room to look for the node-room actions.

Answer a request#

Open Inbox at the top of Chat, then Keep requests. You can also use View received Keep requests beside a line's Keep control.

A request shows who asked, the room, the words they want to keep and its expiry. Read the quoted line before deciding.

• Approve creates the kept node in the room where the line was said.
• Decline ends the request without creating it.
• If you sent the request, Withdraw ends your own pending request.

Only the author can approve or decline. Only the requester can withdraw. A successful result updates the request's state. Approved. The line is kept in its room. confirms the approval outcome.

When you leave a request unanswered#

A request expires after 24 hours. Silence is not approval. The requested line can be held back from fading while the request is pending, but that does not turn it into a kept node.

The requester can see their sent requests and outcomes in the same Keep requests section. Pending requests to you contribute to the Inbox indicator.

Requests refresh when the view opens and when you return to it. If a request has expired or the underlying line is no longer usable, the app can refuse a decision rather than creating a node from missing content.

Keep, save to Listr or copy#

Copy text copies the line's words to your clipboard. It does not create a node in the room or ask the author for a keep. Use Keep when you want the author's line to become part of that shared space.

Save to Listr in a line's menu instead keeps its words as a note in your own list. It does not create the shared-room node that Keep asks for. Wait for Saved to Listr, then find the note in Listr.

For account exports and leaving Glob Social, see Keep, export and leaving. For chat history and its ordinary fade, see Chat.