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Saving your chats

Kortex saves your ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity chats on your computer, but only after you say yes once. Until you answer the notice, nothing is saved. You can pause saving, or delete what is saved, at any time.

The notice that asks whether to keep your AI chats in your Library

Why save chats this way?​

  • Chats on AI sites can be hard to find again. Saved chats are one search away.
  • Your saved chats stay on your computer, not on Kortex's servers.

How to answer the notice​

The first time you meet the Library, Kortex asks: Keep your AI chats in your Library? You see it on the Kortex tab of an AI site, the side panel's Chats tab or the Library page. One answer covers all of them. It says what is saved, where, and how to change it later.

  1. Read the notice.
  2. Click Keep my chats in my Library to start saving. Or click Don't save my chats to save nothing. You can turn saving on later.

What saves, and when?​

Once you say yes, new chats arrive on their own while Chrome is open and you are signed in to the site.

  • ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok save in the background every few minutes, with no tab open. If a site turns the background away, Kortex saves from an open tab of that site instead for a while.
  • Perplexity saves only while a Perplexity tab is open.
  • Kortex reads each site's newest 500 chats. Older chats can come in from the site's export file.
  • Gemini lists only about its newest 500 to 600 chats, so saving can't reach older Gemini chats.
  • A chat you delete on its site stays in your Library.
The side panel Chats tab lists every saved chat and says what saving is doing

How to turn saving off, or pause one site​

  1. Open the side panel's Chats tab.
  2. Click the settings button (the gear) to open Saving your chats.
  3. Switch off Save my AI chats on this computer to stop everything. Or use the switch on one site's row to pause only that site.
Saving your chats shows each AI site with how many chats are saved and a switch to pause it

The same main switch is in the Library's Privacy view. Turned off, Kortex saves nothing new, and chats already saved stay until you delete them.

Three more switches turn off helpers: Show past chats while you type, Show the Kortex tab on AI sites and Suggest my saved prompts while I type.

YouTube history is separate. It stays off until you turn it on in the Library's Videos view.

How to remove what is saved​

  • Delete saved … chats in Saving your chats removes one site's chats from the Library. The chats on the site are not touched.
  • Delete from Library… in a chat's ⋯ menu removes the chat and everything made from it, and stops Kortex saving it again.
  • Archive takes a chat out of every view and search except Archive, without deleting it.
  • Wipe all YouTube data… in the Videos view's ⋯ menu removes every video, watch, transcript and video rule.
Deleting a chat asks first and says what goes with it

A deleted chat's text is wiped from the database file, not just hidden. If you change your mind right away, click Undo. It brings the chat back with its name, folder, tags, note, pins and highlights.

Undo brings a deleted chat back as it was
Good to know
  • If a site changes in a way that breaks saving, Kortex can turn saving off for that site until a fix ships. It can only turn saving off, never on.
  • Saving is free and has no limit. On the free plan, older chats are locked, not deleted. See the free plan and the trial.

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