Switching between ChatGPT and Claude? How to make AI remember your context
Tired of re-explaining who you are, what you're working on and what you've already decided every time you switch AIs? Boil it down to one short context note. Paste it yourself, save it in each AI's settings, or let a shared memory carry it for you. Three options, pick by how often you switch Option
Posted on Oct 29 • Originally published at kiomi.ai • AI-assisted
Tired of re-explaining who you are, what you're working on and what you've already decided every time you switch AIs? Boil it down to one short context note. Paste it yourself, save it in each AI's settings, or let a shared memory carry it for you.
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok don't share memory. When one hits its usage limit, or another is better at coding or writing, the new AI doesn't know you. It has no idea about your project or what you've decided, so you end up feeding it all the context again.
“Summarize what you know about me and my current project in one page: my role, goals, decisions already made and how I like answers. Facts only, no guessing.”
Pain: When things change, like a pushed deadline or a reversed decision, you have to edit the note or it goes stale. And you have to remember to paste it every time.
Paste the same note into each AI's settings. From then on, new chats there read it automatically:
They reach different places: ChatGPT's Custom Instructions apply to all chats; a Claude Project's instructions apply only inside that project.
Pain: Upkeep. Any change means opening each AI and editing it one by one. Claude can now import memory from another AI, but that's a one-time copy; after that the two drift apart again.
Since the AIs don't talk to each other, keep the memory somewhere outside all of them. Kiomi Memory is a Chrome extension that does this for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok:
Note: Kiomi is in early access. Desktop Chrome only, sign-up needs an invite code, and it can occasionally miss things.
Partly. Ask ChatGPT for a summary (see Option 1) or use Claude's memory import. Both are one-time snapshots: check them after the move, and later changes still have to be made on both sides.
Only include what you're fine with an AI company processing. Whether it goes into an AI's settings or a memory extension, leave out passwords, ID numbers and card numbers.
Disclosure: I'm one of the people building Kiomi. Originally published at kiomi.ai.