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Your year in AI: what your ChatGPT and Claude history says you cared about

Your AI chat history is a rough diary of the year. How to read it privately from your ChatGPT or Claude export, and keep the memories that matter.

By Gary Dhanda · 9 November 2026 · 3-minute read

Your ChatGPT and Claude history is a rough diary of the year: what you planned, worried about, built and learned. Your Year in AI reads your export in your browser and shows it back as the people, organisations and topics you can keep. The file is never uploaded.

A diary you never meant to keep

Every question you asked an assistant this year left a trace: the trip you planned, the business decision you talked through at midnight, the recipe you adapted for someone who cannot eat gluten. None of it was written as a diary. Read back together, it becomes one.

How to see it privately

  1. Request your export from ChatGPT or Claude settings. It arrives by email, so do this a few days ahead.
  2. Open Your Year in AI and drop in the .zip file. It is read in your browser tab.
  3. Pick the year. You see when your year in AI started, your busiest month, and the people, organisations and topics you came back to.
  4. Tick what is worth keeping. Detection is not perfect, so edit or untick anything that is wrong.

What to keep

Keep the things you would want to find again in five years: the people, the projects that took months, the decisions and why you made them. Leave out the throwaway questions. That is what a memory is for.

What to do with it

Download your memory page, make a share card if you want to, or keep the page in AI Twin as a document so it is there the next time you need the context. Then, if you are seeing family this Christmas, ask them some of the questions you never have.

Questions people ask

Is there a ChatGPT year in review?

You can make your own from your ChatGPT export with Your Year in AI. It reads the file in your browser and shows the people, organisations and topics you came back to.

Is my export uploaded?

No. The file is read in your browser tab and never uploaded.

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