Build Your Private ChatGPT Archive

Over the past year, I’ve used ChatGPT for everything: coding help, business ideas, product drafts, even customer replies. It quickly became my second brain. But at some point, I realized that a huge part of my daily work — my actual thinking — was locked away in those chats, stored on someone else's server. OpenAI lets you export your data, but the result is a giant .zip file with an unreadable JSON and one endless HTML page. No search, no structure, no real control.

So last week, I built a plugin for Typemill, my open source CMS, that lets you import your entire ChatGPT archive and turn it into clean, editable Markdown pages. You can organize chats by topic, search them, or even feed them into an AI pipeline later.

I built this for myself, but I think others might find it helpful too — especially folks who use ChatGPT as part of their workflow and want to own their data. It’s free, self-hosted, and takes just a few seconds to use.

Read the whole story: https://typemill.net/news/build-your-private-chatgpt-archive

Would love your thoughts or feedback if you try it out!