Exporting
Export conversation… saves a tab’s conversation as a file you can read or share.
Export a conversation
- Open the tab’s menu (right-click its row in the sidebar) and choose Export conversation…. The command palette has it too (The command palette).
- In the save dialog, pick Markdown (
.md, the default) or Web page (.html, one file with its style inside it). The name you give decides which. - Save. The tab says where the file went.
The file is written under a temporary name and then renamed, so a failed export never leaves half a file under the name you chose.
What’s in it
- Your prompts and Claude’s replies in full, with their times. A reply’s Markdown is kept as written. In the web page it is shown as text, so nothing in it runs.
- Each tool call as one line with its result’s summary, and a Bash command with the start of its output (the first 4,000 characters).
- A call that made or changed a Claude Doc has the doc’s link instead.
- A subagent as one line with its report.
- The outcomes of permission cards, a plan’s text, where each task started (Started task #3: Run the migration), failed hooks and errors.
What’s left out
Thinking, and Claudette’s other notes.
See also
- Copying and quoting to take just a part of a conversation.
- The scratch pad, which an export doesn’t include.
- History to open an old session again rather than save it.