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title: "Archiving sessions"
description: "Take a session out of your list without deleting it, find it again on the Archive tab, and bring it back."
---

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# Archiving sessions

Archiving takes a session out of your session list. The history stays, and you can bring the session
back at any time.

## Archive a session

Every session list has an **Archive** action:

- **Sidebar** — hover a session row and click the archive icon, or right-click the row and choose
  **Archive**.

  ![A hovered session row in the sidebar, with the archive icon at the end of the row](/images/archive-sidebar-row.png)

- **Session header** — open the ⋯ menu in the header of an open session and choose **Archive**.

  ![The overflow menu in a session header, open on Archive](/images/archive-session-menu.png)

- **Home page** — hover a row and click the archive icon, or right-click the row and choose
  **Archive**.

  ![A hovered row on the home page, with the archive icon beside the row's other actions](/images/archive-home-row.png)

Archiving takes effect immediately. **Delete**, in the same menus, is irreversible.

Archiving a session that Indent is still working on stops the work, the same way interrupting it
does: tool calls in flight are cancelled, the partial reply stays in the history, and the session
ends up halted. Anything that arrives afterward is queued, so activity on a
[pull request the session is subscribed to](/working-with-indent/reviewing-pull-requests) is
processed once the session comes back. Archiving applies to the session, so it also leaves your
teammates' lists, and anyone who can see a session can archive or unarchive it.

## Find an archived session

Go to the home page and open the **Archive** tab, next to **Sessions**. It lists the archived
sessions you started or took part in. The tab is part of the URL, so the view is shareable.

That tab is the only list an archived session appears in. A teammate who never took part in one
can't find it once it's archived, though a direct link to a session keeps working.

## Bring a session back

Two ways:

- **Unarchive it.** On the home page's **Archive** tab, right-click a row and choose **Unarchive**.
  The session returns to your sidebar and lists.
- **Send it a message.** A new message from a person unarchives the session automatically, from any
  surface: the composer in the web app, a mention in the
  [Slack thread](/collaborating/working-in-slack) the session belongs to, or a comment on the
  [Linear issue](/connecting/linear) it was started from. Indent picks the work up with the full
  history.

Opening an archived session leaves it archived. Only a new message brings it back.

> **Note**
>
> Nothing is archived automatically. There's no inactivity timer, and an archived session is kept
> for as long as any other.

Source: https://docs.indent.com/working-with-indent/archiving-sessions/index.mdx