How Do You Excavate Extremely Long ChatGPT Conversation Archives Without Losing Chronology?

clearbreeze · reddit · 2026-11-15

A Reddit user asks for concrete workflows to excavate very large ChatGPT conversation exports while preserving chronology, provenance, and raw material. He wants specifics: chunking strategies (lines/tokens/dates/topic shifts), indexing, review tracking, scripts vs embeddings vs local LLMs, finding recurring themes across thousands of lines, and keeping summaries from distorting the source. His unusual goal: treat the transcript as primary evidence and faithfully recover poems, fragments, themes, and timeline.

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