I (first) didn't see there was already the same feature request (So I will remove mine) and post my (& AI's comments upon that request) here:|

Is it possible to export chat-history of a whole thread?

cause it's sometimes difficult to search through (alhough that timeline idea helps a little better than before without of course)

Claude Sonnet 3.7 (Thinking):

Thought Process

Currently, there isn't a built-in feature in Cascade to export the entire chat history of a thread. This is a valid usability concern, as searching through long conversations can be challenging even with the timeline feature.

There are a few workarounds you could use:

Manual copy-paste: You can select and copy sections of the conversation and paste them into a document. This is tedious for long threads but works for short segments.

Screenshots: Take screenshots of important parts of the conversation for reference.

Note-taking alongside: Keep a separate document where you note key decisions, code changes, and solutions as we work.

Browser extensions: Some browser extensions can save page content, though these might not work perfectly with dynamic content like chat interfaces.

If this is particularly important for your workflow, you might want to provide this feedback to the Cascade team, as it would be a useful feature for many users who need to reference past conversations or share solutions with team members.

In Linux, the conversations are saved in the directory ~/.codeium/windsurf/cascade as ".pb" files, not human readable.

It would be very useful to be able to decode it - after all, it is my own chat history. Only fair to give me access to it, no? At least give me the DB schema, to be able to decode the files. Thank you!

This, 100%!

I refuse to install dependencies on my system, I work on too many projects at one time and need to work in every single project with a devcontainer.

I made the mistake of setting an environment variable in my docker-compose.yml file for a service because I thought it was fairly safe it wouldn't change, well when I needed to change it after 8 hours of development and chatting with Cascade and needing it to persist between restarting the container, that meant recreating the container. Which then means Windsurf lost the chat history.

I was fairly sure it was going to lose it, so I luckily copy + pasted it all into Obsidian first, but seems like such a no brainer to have chat history be something stored in the project, or at least somewhere easy to map somewhere with a volume when attaching to remote containers.

chat should be auto saved into hidden project directory

because it is part of it

" .chat/ "

I’d like to see even one step further, have an option to “record this entire chat from the beginning to $filename until told to stop”..

Windsurf team - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add this feature ... I am ending up spedning so much time copy pasting portions of chat just to save context of what all I tried and why I chose a certain approach.