📝 docs: Add documentation about Temporary Chats feature. (#224)

* 📝 docs: Add documentation about Temporary Chats feature. * 📝 docs: Add screenshots to Temporary Chats page, and bold the note section. * 📝 docs: Remove wrong notice about possibility of manual deletion. Add clarification pressing X will disable temporary chat.
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 - **Advanced Context Management**: Split messages to create multiple conversation threads, enhancing control of your conversations' context.
 
+### 🥷 **[Temporary Chat](/docs/features/temporary_chat.mdx)**
+
+- **Chat incognito in Librechat**: Use Temporary Chat for private conversations that won't clutter your history, appear in search, or be bookmarked – perfect for sensitive topics or quick experiments.
+
 ### 💬 **Multimodal Chat**
 
 #### **Image Analysis**

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+---
+title: Temporary Chat
+description: Temporary chats allow users to exclude specific conversations from their chat history, search results, and bookmarks, providing a private and focused experience.
+---
+
+# Temporary Chat
+
+Keep your chat history clean and focused by using temporary chats for sensitive topics, quick experiments, or anything you don't need to permanently save. These chats are excluded from search results, cannot be bookmarked, and are automatically deleted after 30 days.
+
+## Activating Temporary Chat
+
+1.  Open the model list dropdown menu located on the top left side of LibreChat.
+2.  Toggle the "Temporary Chat" slider to the ON position.
+
+![Temporary Chat Toggle](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ebd5370d-7fac-45af-b0d3-2de59df506e9)
+
+3.  A notification will appear above the chat input area, confirming that Temporary Chat mode is active. Pressing (x) will disable the Temporary Chat.
+
+![Temporary Chat Notification](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ed19485a-99d3-45a2-a148-7824031f9022)
+
+
+## What Happens When a Chat is Marked as Temporary?
+
+*   Temporary Chats do not appear in the chat history sidebar.
+*   Temporary Chats are excluded from search results.
+*   Temporary Chats cannot be bookmarked.
+*   Temporary Chats are stored in the database for 30 days and then automatically deleted.