The chat drawer - R, C, and Rᶜ markers

Short answer

The drawer on the left lists all your chats, grouped by date. Chats show a small marker to the left of the title indicating what happened in that chat: R (used a reasoning model), C (used Council mode), or Rᶜ (both - the c sits as a superscript on the R). Titles all line up on the same left edge whether they have a marker or not.

Detailed explanation

Layout. The drawer runs down the left side of the app. Chats are grouped into sections: Pinned (top, if any), Today, Yesterday, and older date buckets. Within each section, chats sort by most-recent-activity first.

Row markers - one glyph per row.

Each chat that has a special property gets a single compact letter marker to the left of the title:

• R - this chat has used a reasoning model (DeepSeek R1, Qwen QwQ, Qwen3-thinking, etc.).
• C - this chat has used Council mode at any point.
• Rᶜ - both. The R is at normal size; the c is a superscript on it, the way you’d write x². Reads as one label, not two.

Rows without any of those properties carry no marker - just the title.

Pinned chats have no separate icon. They already live under their own PINNED section at the top of the drawer, so a per-row pin glyph would just repeat what the section header already says. Pin/unpin is done from the row’s ⋯ menu.

Alignment rule. Marker or no marker, every chat title starts at the same X position. The marker occupies a small fixed-width column to the left of the title; when it’s absent, that column stays empty and the title still starts where you expect. Scanning the drawer, all titles form a clean vertical line.

Clicking a chat. Opens it in the main view. The current chat is highlighted in the drawer.

New Chat button. At the top of the drawer. Creates a fresh empty chat with the currently-selected model in the model selector.

Why it matters

Once you have 20+ chats, being able to spot at a glance “which of these has reasoning content” or “which are Council debates” saves opening chats to check. Grouping pinned chats under their own section (instead of tagging every row with a pin icon) keeps the drawer legible - the section header carries the signal without the per-row noise.

In Abliteration specifically

The marker is rendered in the drawer’s on-surface color (dark on the light-themed drawer, light on the dark-themed drawer) - not in an accent color, on purpose. It should read as a subtle label, not a badge.

The Rᶜ composite uses a superscript layout on the c (about 60% of the R’s size, baseline-raised). This keeps the ambiguity of “RC” - two independent letters - away. If Inter’s built-in superscript variant renders on your Windows install it’s used verbatim; otherwise the app draws a manually-offset second glyph to the same effect.

The ⋯ button in the top-right of each row opens the Pin/Rename/Delete menu. There is no right-click handler on rows - only the ⋯ button triggers the menu. Pinning a chat moves it into the PINNED section immediately; unpinning moves it back to whichever date bucket it belongs to.

Related

• Chat management - pin/rename/delete actions
• Reasoning models - what triggers the R marker
• Council mode - what triggers the C marker