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Messages

Your text conversations in Conversations, where to turn the Messages source on, and the Count who you text switch.

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On this page

Messages is one of the sources listed under Conversations in the left sidebar. It is the feed of your text conversations. This page says what the source shows and where its switch is. The two pages under Related have the details.

What it brings in

Text conversations, by two routes:

Both end up in the same Messages feed.

Turn it on

Pasting a thread has no switch. The Mac import does, and it is in the Messages pane:

  1. In the left sidebar, click Messages under Conversations.
  2. At the top of the page is the Messages settings pane. If it is closed, click Source settings.
  3. Find the card called Messages. In the Groupthink desktop app for Mac it shows Off.
  4. Click Turn on Messages import.

The steps that follow are in Import Your Messages History on a Mac. Once it is set up, the card shows On. If it shows Needs permission, that page explains what to do.

On the web, the card shows Mac app only and has no button. The import is set up in the desktop app.

The pane also holds a second card, Phone numbers from your Mac's Contacts.

Count who you text

Once the Mac import is set up, the Messages card has a switch called Count who you text. The line under it reads: "Also count one-to-one conversations you haven't imported." While the switch is on, the line adds: "Turning this off deletes the counts from Groupthink."

  1. Open the Messages settings pane. If it is closed, click Source settings.
  2. On the Messages card, find Count who you text. It is below Keep imported conversations up to date.
  3. Turn the switch on. It reads On.

The switch is off until you turn it on. It is separate from Choose conversations: you don't need to pick any conversations for it to work.

Once it is on, the card also shows how the count is going:

  • While it counts, the card says it is counting your conversations. The first count starts as soon as you turn the switch on.
  • When a count finishes, the card says when it last counted and how many people it found. Numbers that look like a business or a short code, and numbers with only one or two messages, are not counted as people.
  • If a count didn't finish, the card says so and that Groupthink will try again in a few minutes.

The switch appears only in the Groupthink desktop app for Mac. On the web, the card shows Mac app only.

What you see

The page is titled Messages, with this line under the title: "Text conversations you logged or imported, newest first."

Before anything has come in, the page reads Nothing from Messages yet and the Messages settings pane is open. Once there are conversations in the feed, the pane starts closed. Click Source settings to open it.

A dot appears on the Source settings button when Messages needs your attention.

Texts on a person's page

Each person's page has a Texts section.

  • Once texts are filed to them, it shows how many days of texts there are and when the last one was, for example 12 days of texts, last Oct 14. If some of those days were group texts, the line also says how many. Below that are the last few lines of the newest day, with who said each one and when. Lines from a group text show who sent them.
  • When none are filed yet, it says so and explains that texts come from the Mac app's Messages import. The iPhone app can't read Messages.

Two buttons put someone's texts on their page:

  • Add their number. Type the number and click Save. Once a number is on the person, the button reads Add another number. Every past and future text from that number files to this person. After a moment the section shows how many days were filed, for example Filed 14 days of texts to Ally Paz.
  • Link a text thread. This lists your text threads with numbers that aren't on anyone yet. Each one shows how often you text it and its last few messages. In the Mac app, it also shows the name your Mac's Contacts has for the number. Click Link to followed by the person's name on the right thread to file its texts to this person.

Both show an Undo button afterwards. Click it if you picked the wrong number or thread. The number comes off the person, and the texts it filed go back to unfiled. For a thread from an Apple ID email address, the address comes off the person instead.

A group text shows up only if you picked that thread when importing on your Mac.