Managing ChatGPT's Chat Logs
Throughout this blog I share some of the conversations I have with ChatGPT, but I'd gotten out of the routine and amassed a long list of conversations - this list was also difficult to make a copy of. In addition to this, ChatGPT was providing no up-front "date of conversation" information; two things that were hindering my desire to get back on track. ChatGPT informed me "You can view exact timestamps if you export your ChatGPT data..." so: Step 1: Export your ChatGPT chat data: Go to Settings → Data controls Choose Export data You’ll get a ZIP file by email [the link to download arrived within a few minutes in my case, the file contains everything, including created and shared images, so it can be pretty large]. Inside it ... [you will find] the file: conversations.json [mine was 20MB, spanning some 700~ conversations...] Each conversation includes fields such as... UNIX timestamps [which] can be converted into exact human-readable dates. Step 2: Extract th...