It was 8pm on a Friday. I really needed that JWT authentication explanation I'd got from Claude three weeks ago. The one that finally made refresh tokens click in my head. I knew it was great. Probably spent 30 minutes getting all the security considerations right in that conversation.

Couldn’t find it anywhere.

Checked ChatGPT history. Not there. Checked my three different Claude accounts (free tier life). Scrolled for 20 minutes. Nothing. It was gone. Probably in a temporary chat that auto-deleted.

Ended up re-asking the question. Got an answer but it wasn’t the same. Missing that one analogy that made everything make sense the first time.

That was the moment I decided to build Savelore.

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The Actual Problem

So here’s the thing — I use AI all the time for development work. ChatGPT for quick code questions, Claude for architecture discussions, sometimes Gemini when the others are slow. Multiple accounts across platforms because free tiers have limits.

My workflow was like this: ask ChatGPT about React server components, get the perfect explanation, continue with my day. Two weeks later I need that same explanation for a code review. Where was it? Which platform? Which account? Which of the 47 conversations from that week?

Temporary chats made it worse. I’d start a quick throwaway conversation for something sensitive or just testing an idea. Get a brilliant response. Close the tab. Gone forever.

I was re-asking the same architecture questions every month. Same debugging approaches. Same configuration examples. Maybe 2-3 hours per week of just recreating knowledge I’ve already gotten before wasted.

The worst part? I knew I had asked these questions. Could remember the conversations. Just couldn’t find them.

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Why Existing Solutions Didn’t Work

Of course, I tried the simple stuff first.

Screenshots? I took them for a while. Ended up with a folder named "chatgpt stuff" with 300+ screenshots in it. Totally unsearchable. And half of them were cropped weird or missing context.

Bookmarking conversations? ChatGPT lets you star chats but you’re bookmarking entire conversations. That 50-message chat about database optimization? Good luck finding the specific response about indexing strategies when you need it.

Then I tried those export extensions. They dump your entire chat history into text files or Markdown. Now instead of searching through chat history I’m searching through massive text documents. Plus they don’t work with temporary chats at all since those aren’t in your history.

Copy-pasting to Notion? I did it for only a week. Most of the time I forgot to do it. When I did it, it felt like homework.

None of these solved the actual problem: saving specific responses that matter, being able to find them later, and not losing stuff from temporary chats.

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Building Something Different

I’m a developer, not a product guy. However, I was so annoyed that I just built what I needed.

The core idea was pretty straightforward: don’t save the whole conversation, only save individual responses. When you get a good result from ChatGPT, click save, put a couple of tags, write a short description. Done.

Made a Chrome extension because that’s where I’m most of the time. Everything is saved locally — no signup, no data sending, offline works. Thought that if I were solving my own problem, I might as well keep it simple.

The features that really matter to me:

• Save specific responses with one click
• Add tags so I can find stuff later ("react", "authentication", "debugging")
• Full text search across everything
• Works in temporary chats (this was huge)
• Jump back to the original conversation if I need more context

I spent about a month creating the first version. The main reason I put it on the Chrome Web Store was to see if anyone else had this problem.

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Turns Out Other People Hate This Too

I published it at the end of last month. Put it on Reddit a few times, just asking if this was a real problem or just me being disorganized.

I got 36 installs in the first month. Not a big number but the extension is actually used by people. I get messages from developers with the same frustration. "I keep re-asking ChatGPT the same questions" is apparently universal.

One guy said he had been taking screenshots for a year and had over 100 of them. Another was manually maintaining a Notion database. Two students mentioned losing research responses and having to recreate citations.

Still discovering features to add to the product. Added Notion export because people asked for it. Working on cloud sync next. Learning a lot about people’s actual needs versus what I thought they were.

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Solving My Own Problem

The funny thing is that I built this only for myself. Was to be my personal tool that stayed on my computer. Sharing it was not really on my mind.

However, from my experience with users over the past month, it’s the same story repeated over and over. People who are heavy AI users lose important stuff, waste time re-asking questions, and feel disorganized.

If you also have this problem, then Savelore is at savelore.app. The free tier allows you to save 25 responses for testing.

Still a side project. Still experimenting. But at least I no longer lose my ChatGPT conversations.

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