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To answer your question: I don't value chat histories that much. In the early days people didn't walk around with tape recorders to record everything everybody
by j3th9n 5y ago
To answer your question: I don't value chat histories that much. In the early days people didn't walk around with tape recorders to record everything everybody was saying either. If there is something really important said in a chat, you could make a screenshot, the same way you would take a note on paper with a pencil in pre-digital times, but how often did that happen? To write down an address for example, but you could put that in the digital equivalent of the rolodex, like Contacts.app or Notes. You could even go as far as to save information in a personal CRM like Monica.
- nicoburns 5y agoPeople did used to write each other letters though, which they would often keep. I definitely have some correspondence over chat that falls in that category. Perhaps I should go back to writing such messages on physical media.
- j3th9n 5y agoIf it's really something worth keeping I would probably print it out to keep it safe, instead of letting it disappear in a continuing chat, with the risk of losing it, because your data is on somebody else's server and you're not in control of it.
- seniorivn 5y agoprinted text is not going to be as durable as letters of the past