Conversations — rename, pin, search, delete.
Every thread, kept per brand. Renames and deletions follow your account; pins don't — and a very long thread quietly trims its own middle. Both are worth knowing before you rely on them.
Every thread you've had with Compose is kept, per brand, in the History tab of the sidebar. You can rename them, pin the ones you keep coming back to, search them and delete them. Two things about how they're stored will surprise you — they're at the bottom of this page, and they're worth reading before you rely on either.
Starting a new conversation
+ New conversation at the top of the sidebar clears the thread and the composer. Nothing is created until you actually send a message — an empty thread you abandon leaves nothing behind.
Start a new one when the subject changes. A thread that's been about your boiler service for twenty messages isn't a good place to ask for a recruitment post.
Titles and renaming
A new thread is called “New conversation” until you send something. Then it's auto-titled from your first message — stripped of markdown, cut to 60 characters. That's usually enough to recognise it a week later.
To rename: the … menu on the row → Rename. Type over it, press Enter. Escape cancels. Titles cap at 200 characters.
Clear the title entirely and the thread reverts to “New conversation” — and the auto-title heuristic takes over again the next time you send a message in it.
Pinning
The … menu → Pin. Pinned threads move to the top of the list and get a pin icon instead of the speech-bubble icon. Recency order is preserved inside each group.
There's also a Pinned only filter button under the search box — a focus mode that hides everything else. It stays on until you turn it off.
Searching
The box at the top of the sidebar.
It filters on the conversation's title — not the messages inside it. Searching “boiler” finds a thread called something about boilers; it will not find a thread called “Friday post” that happens to mention boilers in message four. This is the single most common surprise about the sidebar, and the reason renaming your threads is worth the four seconds.
On the Presets tab the same box searches presets — and that one does look inside, matching the name, the template and the starters.
Deleting
The … menu → Delete. You'll be asked to confirm, with the thread's title in the prompt so you can't delete the wrong one by muscle memory.
It's permanent, and it takes the messages with it. Anything you Saved out of that thread as a draft survives — the drafts are separate objects, and deleting the conversation doesn't touch them.
Per-brand isolation
The sidebar only ever lists threads belonging to the brand you're currently on. Switch brand and the whole list changes.
This is deliberate — it's the same lock that stops you continuing one brand's thread as another. If a conversation seems to have vanished, check the brand chip in the composer before you check anything else. It's nearly always that. One brand per thread →
Open an old link to a thread from a different brand and ScoutRival won't load it into the wrong brand's context — it quietly drops you into a fresh, empty thread for the brand you're on.
Two honest caveats
Pins, the Pinned only filter and the collapsed/expanded state of the sidebar are all stored in this browser's local storage — not on your ScoutRival account. Sign in on a different machine, or a different browser, or clear your site data, and they're gone. The conversations themselves are safe; only the pins vanish. Renames and deletions are stored on your account and do follow you everywhere.
A conversation's messages are stored together in one field with a hard size limit. When a thread grows past it, ScoutRival makes room by discarding the oldest messages after the first one — it keeps the opening message, which is usually the brief, and trims forward from there. It does this without telling you, and it can't be undone.
In normal use you'll never hit it — it takes a long thread of long posts. But if a conversation is genuinely important, Save or Copy the replies that matter rather than treating the thread as an archive. And when the subject changes, start a new conversation: shorter threads are better output and there's nothing to lose.