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The chat Library

The Kortex chat Library saves your chats from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok on your own computer. You can search all your AI chat history in one place, sort chats into folders, and ask your saved chats questions.

The Library lists every saved chat by day, with its AI, folder and tags

It also holds the YouTube videos and Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) notebooks you file with your chats. You can search it, read chats offline, sort them into folders, carry what a chat decided into another AI, and ask your chats questions.

Everything is stored on this computer, in a database inside Chrome. Kortex asks before it saves anything. Privacy covers what leaves and when.

Why save your AI chats?​

  • You talked to an AI about something last month, and now you can't find where. Search finds it.
  • You use three different AIs. The Library puts all their chats in one place.
  • You want a new chat to know what an old one decided.

On the free plan and the trial​

Saving is free and never has a limit. Every chat you keep stays saved. The free plan uses the last 30 days of your Library. Older things are locked.

Think of a photo album with the older pages taped shut. You can see the album is there, and the date on each page. You can't open the pages. Nothing is thrown away. Pro peels off the tape, and every page opens at once.

A search that also matches older chats says how many are locked

Here is what the free plan gives you:

  • Save every chat from every AI.
  • Search, read and open anything from the last 30 days.
  • Keep 20 highlights, 20 pins, 10 notes, 25 Memory facts and 5 folders.
  • Ask your chats 3 times a week.
  • Carry context into another AI 3 times a week. ;ref, ;pack, ;me and Continue in another AI… share those 3.
  • Download one chat at a time, even a locked one. Your own data is always yours.

The free plan does not search from any page, and it does not add older chats from export files.

A quiet line at the top of the Library shows how many days are open and how many older chats are locked

The 7-day trial​

When you click Keep my chats for the first time, you get 7 days of the full Library. Everything is open. A quiet line at the top shows how many days are left and what is searchable.

During the trial the line at the top shows the days left and how many chats are searchable

Before it ends, Kortex tells you which chats will lock. When it ends, you are on the free plan. Nothing is deleted. Pro opens it all again.

A card shows what the trial has done for you and what will lock when it ends

When you reach a limit​

Kortex does not hide the limit. It says it in a plain line where you are, with your own numbers. A bigger box shows the first time each day. The buttons are Get Pro and Not now.

The box that opens when a search matches older chats, with Get Pro and Not now

In these docs​

How do I open the Library?​

Pick any of these:

  • The side panel's Chats tab.
  • Read in the Library in the Kortex tab's ⋯ menu on an AI site.
  • Chat Library in the dashboard's sidebar.
  • The button above the Kortex tab, which opens it over the page.
The Library opens over the AI site you are on

The left column lists the views: All chats, Videos, Folders, Prompts, Timeline, Pinned, Highlights, Notes, Memory, Asked twice, Archive and Privacy.

On every AI site​

A small tab on the right edge of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok opens a panel about the chat you are in. It is the Kortex tab.

The Kortex tab beside a chat holds your note, pins, highlights, folder and tags

It shows the chat's folders and tags, your note, the answers you pinned, the questions you asked, and related chats from any AI.

Highlights and pins​

Select words in an answer and a small bar appears.

Select words in an answer and a small bubble offers Pin, Highlight and Remember
  • Pin keeps the passage with the chat.
  • Highlight marks it in yellow, green, blue or pink. Highlights come back when you reload the page. Click one to recolour it, copy it, open it in the Library or remove it.
  • Remember adds it to your Memory as a fact.
Click a highlight on the chat to change its colour, add a note or remove it

The tour​

The Library has a short tour. It starts once, after you answer the saving notice. Take it again from the ? beside the Library's name.

A tour step lights up the part of the page it is about