Purpose and best uses
History is the list of your past research conversations. It exists to help you reopen an earlier thread and continue where you left off, rather than reconstruct the exchange from memory. Use it when you remember having discussed an issue but the conversation is no longer among the few recent items on Home. The entries show identifying information such as the conversation title, date information, and a message count when available, helping you distinguish one thread from another.
The most important distinction is between History and My Research. History is concerned with conversations and their messages. My Research holds saved standalone Ask and Deep Research work, together with accepted agentic results and recorded unfinished progress from supported runs. My List is different again: it contains reference items you explicitly saved, such as dictionary or encyclopedia entries. Knowing which kind of record you created makes it much easier to find the right destination without assuming that one history screen contains everything.
How to use it well
Give conversations meaningful titles while you are working in them. A title naming the issue, jurisdiction, or fictional matter will be easier to recognize than several threads with nearly identical first questions. In History, select the relevant entry to return to Conversation. Review enough of the prior exchange to recover the assumptions and source context before adding a new question. An older answer may have been based on different facts, an earlier document version, or a narrower question than the one you now have.
When Matters are available to your account, History can offer a “File into” control for placing a conversation into a chosen Matter. Use that deliberately. A Matter can be shared with authorized colleagues, so filing research there should match your intended organization and access arrangements. Do not select a Matter merely because its name is similar to the project you have in mind. Confirm the destination and understand whether it is private, shared with selected members, or associated with a firm workspace.
Example and practical limits
Imagine that last week you explored a fictional supplier dispute in several exchanges. Today you need to add a new fact. Open History, identify the earlier conversation, and read the last relevant messages before continuing. If the work now belongs with documents and notes for the same project, file it into the appropriate Matter. This preserves the connection between the earlier questions and the later development of the issue without forcing you to rerun the original research simply to remember what was said.
History is not a browser-history list, a record of every source you ever opened, or an assurance that every activity in Law Mind is archived there. It also does not update an old legal answer merely because you reopen the conversation. If the passage of time matters, request new research explicitly and verify the relevant current sources. Be careful when reusing statements from an old thread: their supporting documents and assumptions may still need review. Used well, History gives continuity and retrieval for conversation-based work, while My Research, My List, and Matters handle other forms of preservation and organization.
If two conversations concern similar issues, open each long enough to confirm the facts before adding new material. A recognizable title is helpful, but the actual messages establish which thread contains the discussion you need. This is especially useful after a long gap between research sessions.