[martylamb]

I made something called ChatKeeper to deal with exactly this.

It syncs your entire ChatGPT history to local markdown files so you can organize, rename, or integrate them with other work however you like. I use it to keep my conversations alongside related notes in Obsidian, but since it's just markdown, you can use any system at all.

I also built it because ChatGPT is a cloud-based service which, as we all know, can vanish, change its UI, or alter its terms at any time, and I wanted control over my own data.

Info, screenshots, & download all at https://martiansoftware.com/chatkeeper for the curious.

(full disclosure: I sell it, but it's cheap, not subscription-based, and has a free trial.)

(nerd disclosure: Reverse-engineering the ChatGPT export format is an ongoing game of whack-a-mole as they continually add new features. The software is currently a CLI but a GUI version is in the works.)

[4b11b4]

Cool but the update structure requiring a new license after a year would turn me away. Could I at least pay a reduced rate for later updates since I already bought the full license..?

[martylamb]

That's completely reasonable. Honestly, ChatKeeper hasn't been around long enough for that to come up yet. My intention was to keep it priced so that's not an issue, but perhaps I did not succeed there.

I will seriously consider that - thanks for the suggestion!