If you use Aim, Yahoo messenger, MSN, ICQ, Skype, etc, and you want to manage your IM history…you could either find an open source program that combined all of the formats into one program and use its history saving. Or…you could try out IM History. This nice little program will save your IM’s in a nice format and for any/all of your IM programs. If you are either not worried about possible privacy issues or just want to keep tabs on everyone at all times (j/k) it also has a slightly odd function that it can sync histories across multiple computers. Of course, this is slightly excessive for the normal user, but hey…you can use it just for keeping a history so you can say “I told you so” or “HAH! you *said* it a week ago.”
*shrugs
:)
Check it out on im-history