# How to save ChatGPT conversations on your computer > Save every ChatGPT conversation on your own computer with Kortex. Say yes once and new chats save themselves. Search, read and download any chat. https://www.kortex-notebooklm.com/tutorials/how-to-save-chatgpt-conversations 1. [Tutorials](/tutorials) 2. How to save ChatGPT conversations on your computer # How to save ChatGPT conversations on your computer 2 minutes 6 steps Updated November 10, 2026 ## Quick answer Install Kortex and click Keep my chats in my Library when it asks. After that, new ChatGPT conversations save on their own every few minutes while Chrome is open, with no ChatGPT tab needed. To keep one chat as a file, open it in the Library and choose Download as PDF or Download as Markdown. ## Watch it first How to save your ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini chats on your computer (Kortex Chat Library) Read the transcript Kortex, for Gemini Notebook, formerly NotebookLM, also keeps your AI chats in a Library on your computer. Here's how saving works. Nothing is saved until you say so. Kortex asks once. Click Keep my chats in my Library. From then on, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok save in the background every few minutes. Perplexity saves while a Perplexity tab is open. Kortex reads each site's newest 500 chats. To check on saving, open the side panel's Chats tab and click the gear. Saving your chats shows each site and how many chats it saved. A site's switch pauses just that site. On the AI site itself, the Kortex tab on the right edge holds the chat's folder, tags, your note and your pins. Your chats stay on this computer. When you do send chat text, say to another AI, the Library's Privacy view lists it, without keeping the text. Say yes once, and every chat stays one search away. ## What you need - The [Kortex extension](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kortex/hdapplggdhndkblofffknpmnnnnbncbn) in Chrome, Edge or Brave - A ChatGPT account, signed in on this computer ## On this page 1. [Answer the saving notice](#step-1) 2. [Let your ChatGPT chats save by themselves](#step-2) 3. [Check that ChatGPT is saving](#step-3) 4. [Open your saved chats in the Library](#step-4) 5. [Download one chat as a file](#step-5) 6. [Add a note, a folder or a tag](#step-6) 7. [If it doesn’t work](#trouble) 8. [Questions](#faq) 1. ## Answer the saving notice Kortex asks **Keep your AI chats in your Library?** once. It says what is saved, where, and how to change it later. Click **Keep my chats in my Library**. Click **Don't save my chats** if you want nothing saved. Until you answer, nothing is saved. [![A ChatGPT page with the notice Keep your AI chats in your Library, saying chats are saved only on this computer, with Keep my chats in my Library highlighted.](/images/library/consent.webp)](/images/library/consent.webp) The notice Kortex shows before it saves a single chat. 2. ## Let your ChatGPT chats save by themselves New ChatGPT conversations save in the background every few minutes, while Chrome is open and you are signed in to ChatGPT. Kortex reads ChatGPT's newest 500 chats. A chat you later delete on ChatGPT stays in your Library. 3. ## Check that ChatGPT is saving Open the side panel's **Chats** tab and click the gear to open **Saving your chats**. The ChatGPT row shows how many chats are saved and when Kortex last checked. Use its switch to pause ChatGPT only. [![The Saving your chats sheet with a main switch and a ChatGPT row that reads 11 chats saved, up to date, checked just now, with a Delete saved ChatGPT chats link.](/images/library/saving-sites.webp)](/images/library/saving-sites.webp) Each site says what saving is doing, with its own switch. 4. ## Open your saved chats in the Library Click **Chats** in the side panel, or choose **Read in the Library** in the Kortex tab's ⋯ menu on ChatGPT. **All chats** lists every saved chat by day. Open one to read it in full, even offline. [![The Library's All chats view with saved chats listed by day, each with a site name and tags, and one chat open in a reader beside the list.](/images/library/all-chats.webp)](/images/library/all-chats.webp) All chats lists every saved chat by day. Open one to read it in full beside the list. 5. ## Download one chat as a file Open the chat and click ⋯ at the top right. Choose **Download as PDF** or **Download as Markdown**. The file goes to your downloads folder. **Copy chat** puts the whole conversation on your clipboard. [![The menu of an open chat in the Library, listing Copy chat, Download as Markdown, Download as PDF, Open in Google Docs, Save to Notion, Archive and Delete from Library.](/images/library/notion.webp)](/images/library/notion.webp) Save to Notion sits in every chat’s menu. 6. ## Add a note, a folder or a tag On a ChatGPT page, click the Kortex tab on the right edge. It holds **Your note** for the chat, the answers you pinned, the questions you asked and the folder and tags. Notes save as you type. [![A ChatGPT chat about a grant budget with the Kortex tab open beside it, showing a folder and tags, a note, a pinned answer and the questions asked.](/images/library/kortex-tab.webp)](/images/library/kortex-tab.webp) The Kortex tab keeps your note, pins and related chats next to the chat. ## If it doesn’t work My ChatGPT chats are not saving Open Saving your chats from the side panel's Chats tab. Check that Save my AI chats on this computer and the ChatGPT switch are both on, and that you are signed in to ChatGPT in the same Chrome. The notice never appeared It shows wherever you first meet the Library: the Kortex tab on an AI site, the side panel's Chats tab or the Library page. Open the Chats tab and answer it there. One answer covers all of them. Chats older than my newest 500 are missing Saving reads ChatGPT's newest 500 chats. For older ones, download your ChatGPT export, then in the Library open ⋯ on All chats and choose Add older chats from export files. ## Questions people ask Something we missed? [Ask us](#contact). ### Where are my saved ChatGPT conversations stored? On your own computer, in a database inside Chrome. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you send it. ### Do I have to open ChatGPT for it to save? No. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok save in the background every few minutes while Chrome is open. If a site turns the background away, Kortex saves from an open tab of that site for a while. ### Does it also save Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok chats? Yes. One answer to the notice covers all five. Perplexity saves only while a Perplexity tab is open. ### Can I stop saving later? Yes. Switch off Save my AI chats on this computer in Saving your chats. Chats already saved stay until you delete them. Each site also has its own switch and a Delete saved chats link. ### Does it work on a phone? Kortex keeps your chats in Chrome on your computer. The Kortex docs describe the Library only on a computer. ## Keep going [Chat Library Keep your AI chats on your computer and search them, next to your YouTube videos and notebooks.](/features#organize) [Kortex docs The full reference for this feature, with every option.](/docs/chat-library) ### More tutorials - [How to keep your ChatGPT chat history if chats are deleted](/tutorials/how-to-keep-a-copy-of-your-chatgpt-chat-history) - [How to recover deleted ChatGPT chats (what is possible)](/tutorials/how-to-recover-deleted-chatgpt-chats) - [How to add notes to ChatGPT conversations](/tutorials/how-to-add-notes-to-chatgpt-conversations) - [How to add YouTube videos and playlists to NotebookLM](/tutorials/how-to-add-youtube-videos-to-notebooklm) [All tutorials](/tutorials) ## Do it on your own notebooks. Install the Kortex extension and follow these steps on a notebook you already have. 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