Gemini pillar guide
To keep a copy of your Gemini history, check Keep Activity and download saved Gemini Apps activity through Google Takeout. Export to Docs saves an individual response. A thredly handover is a separate, shorter brief for future work, not a complete chat backup. Gemini has no direct thredly Chrome extension support; use conversation text in the web app.
Last reviewed: 5 September 2026
For a personal account on the web, open Gemini → Settings & help → Activity. Review Keep Activity and the auto-delete setting. Saved activity defaults to 18 months; you can choose 3 or 36 months, or turn auto-delete off. Work and school settings are controlled by the Workspace administrator. See Google’s activity controls.
Keep Activity affects how Google stores and uses your conversations. Choose the setting that suits you, and keep a separate copy of important material. A saved chat, an exported response, and an account archive serve different purposes.
Use Google’s Gemini data download instructions for a bulk archive of available activity.
On the Gemini web app, use Share & export below a response → Export to Docs to save that response to a new document in Drive. Options vary by app and Workspace settings. This is a response export, not an export of every chat. See Google’s response export guide.
For a selected conversation, manually copy the prompts and responses you need into a document and check the copy against the original. Save any essential attachments separately. A Gemini public share link is for sharing; it is not a private backup you control.
First check that you are signed in to the right Google account. Review your Gemini activity and retention settings before assuming the chat was deleted. History visibility and whether Gemini uses a detail in an answer are different issues.
With Keep Activity off, new chats do not appear in Gemini Apps Activity. Google’s 72-hour service retention is not a downloadable backup promise. Temporary chats also have separate retention rules. See the Gemini Apps Privacy Hub.
If the original text is no longer available, work from a copy or export you already saved. thredly cannot retrieve missing Google history or reconstruct messages you cannot supply.
Google currently lists context windows of 32k tokens without an AI plan, 128k with AI Plus, and 1 million with AI Pro or AI Ultra for personal Gemini Apps accounts. These are consumer-app figures, not API specifications. Check Google’s current plan and limit table for eligibility and country availability.
Usage allowances are separate from the context window and depend on the models, features and work you request. A larger context window does not guarantee that every detail will be used correctly, and it does not determine whether your history is saved. Work and school accounts have separate rules.
A complete history is your record of the original exchange. thredly creates a structured AI conversation handover from text you supply, designed to capture the objective, decisions, constraints, current work and next action. Review it because a summary can omit details.
Gemini has no direct support in the thredly Chrome extension. Paste Gemini conversation text into the web app, create and review the handover, then copy it into a new Gemini chat. thredly does not automatically sync Google history or move your account.
For the fresh-chat workflow, use the dedicated long Gemini conversation continuation guide. For other platforms, see how to save and export AI chat history.
Google Takeout can export available Gemini Apps activity. Select My Activity and filter its included activity to Gemini Apps. Check the downloaded archive for the conversations you need; it is not a recovery method for missing or deleted data.
It exports the selected response to a new Google document. Use Takeout for an archive of saved activity, or manually copy a selected conversation and verify that the prompts and responses you need are included.
No. The consumer app’s context window depends on your plan. Google’s current limits table distinguishes accounts without an AI plan, AI Plus, and AI Pro or AI Ultra. API capabilities should not be assumed to apply to the Gemini app.
No. Gemini users can supply conversation text to the thredly web app and copy the reviewed handover into a new chat. This does not export a full Google account or automatically sync conversations.