Exporting and Importing Saved ChatGPT Conversations

These instructions can be used to manually save chats from your existing ChatGPT account and import them into a new account.

Exporting a Chat Conversation

  1. Log into the exporting ChatGPT account and open the chat conversation you’d like to export.
  2. Highlight the contents of the conversation and copy.
  3. Paste the contents into a new document in Word or another text editor.
  4. Save the document with a name that references the topics covered in your chat conversation.

Importing a Chat Conversation

  1. Log into the importing ChatGPT account and start a new chat.
  2. Enter the following prompt:
    “Use the attached conversation as background for this chat. Summarize the important context, decisions, and unresolved questions, then help me continue where the conversation ended.”
  3. After receiving confirmation, upload the document.
  4. As you continue working in the chat conversation, the contents of your previous chat conversation will provide reference material for the new conversation.
    A screenshot of the ChatGPT interface after summarizing the previous chat conversation from a word document.
     

Optional: Creating a Page from an Imported Document

If the saved conversation contains material you want to directly edit or maintain outside of a chat conversation, change the prompt to:
"Create a Page from the attached document. I would like to continue making changes to it."

Support

Need help? Please contact the AI Tools Team (ai-tools@uga.edu) for assistance.

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