undefined-ui Import chat history
Chat history is the most underrated source a person owns and the most sensitive. It records their reasoning, not just facts, and it also records things they would not want in a file that gets synced, committed and backed up.
Core rule
Privacy pass before triage, triage before ingestion. Never ingest an export wholesale.
Workflow
- Convert with
scripts/chat_export_to_md.pyinto one file per conversation, filtering out short exchanges. - Privacy pass. List conversations touching health, money, other people's private information, or confidential work. The user decides; you delete nothing on your own.
- Triage the rest into three piles: worth ingesting (they worked something
out, decided something, or got an explanation that landed), worth archiving
in
raw/, and delete. - Report the lists. Move nothing yet.
- On approval, ingest the first pile, with the instruction that these are the user's own thinking: build pages around what they were working out and what they concluded, not around the assistant's explanations.
Output format
Converted: <n> conversations (<n> skipped as too short)
Privacy review needed: <n>
<title> - <why>
Worth ingesting: <n>
<title> - <what it worked out>
Archive only: <n>
Delete suggested: <n>
Calibration
Expect roughly nine in ten conversations to be throwaway lookups. A triage that recommends ingesting most of the export has not filtered.
Record dates on every page. A position from two years ago is not a current belief, and the vault has to be able to tell the difference.