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Re:Launch HN: Skillsync (YC W26) – AI chat sessions made por... by podviaznikov on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:09PM (#49744434)
I have made simple macos app to export my claude sessions to markdown(plus ordinal jsonl) and i just continuously sync it to dropbox.

i do the same for apple notes and imessage. so very portable

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/exporter-notes-to-markdown/id6...

Re:Launch HN: Skillsync (YC W26) – AI chat sessions made por... by Narsagna on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:26PM (#49744641)
Cool! Over here we mean portability in a different sense: being able to continue a session in another agent as if the entire conversation history was there the whole time. You should not get locked into one agent simply because you built up a conversation history + memory with that agent

Also curious, do you further process the synced files on dropbox at all? how are you using them today?

Re:Launch HN: Skillsync (YC W26) – AI chat sessions made por... by podviaznikov on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:26PM (#49745393)
I don't do much with most of the sessions.

In my experience 95% of the session transcript I don't care about.

But there are some that I want to keep and maybe come back one month later.

Usually it's not even engineering-related. Maybe doing some research on visas, relocation.

But sometime also doing project research and sometime I want to come back to the same topic 2 month later(because new things came up) and I want my new agent to go and read prior conversation.

Re:Launch HN: Skillsync (YC W26) – AI chat sessions made por... by Narsagna on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:32PM (#49748208)
Yeah understandable, with skillsync you can choose for it to proactively tell you about past work that's related to what you're doing or just access all your past sessions via mcp. It's like being a musician that has the record button on the whole time for when the crazy idea strikes