Why Multi-Assistant
Nobody uses one AI. You research in Perplexity, draft in Claude, debug in ChatGPT, ask Grok for a quick take, and read something long in Gemini. Eight tools, eight histories, eight separate places your own context is quietly accumulating.
The problem is not any one provider — it is the spread
Each assistant is individually reasonable. Together they are a filing problem. The answer you want later may be in any of eight accounts, each with its own export story: a bulk account download here, a Takeout archive there, manual copy/paste somewhere else, and nothing at all in a couple of cases.
So the useful unit is not “my ChatGPT history”. It is everything I have asked an AI, in one place you can search.
What one library changes
- One search. Find a conversation by remembering roughly what it was about, not which tool you had open that day.
- Cross-assistant work stays together. The Perplexity research, the Claude draft and the ChatGPT debug session about one project sit side by side instead of in three silos.
- Switching costs drop to zero. If you move from one assistant to another, the history you already own comes with you.
- One format. Every provider lands as Markdown for reading and JSON for structure — not eight incompatible export shapes.
| Per-provider archives | One local library | |
|---|---|---|
| Where your history lives | Eight accounts, eight export flows | One folder on your disk |
| Finding an old answer | Guess the provider, then search | Search once |
| Format | Whatever each provider gives | Markdown + JSON, consistent |
| Providers covered | Varies; some have no practical export | All eight in the same app |
| If you drop a provider | That history goes with it | Already on your disk |
The eight providers, one download each
ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini (via Google Takeout import), Grok, DeepSeek, Mistral and Qwen Chat all write into the same library layout — a folder per provider, one Markdown and one JSON file per conversation. The free tier covers three providers and five conversations per download; the $24 one-time licence unlocks all eight with unlimited downloads.
Where to start
- Download the app and run your most-used provider first — usually the one with the longest history.
- Add the rest as you go. Each download appends to the same library; nothing is overwritten.
- Keep the folder somewhere your existing backup already reaches, so the archive looks after itself.
FAQ
- Does TotalRecalls keep the providers separate, or merge them together?
- Both. Each provider gets its own folder in the library, so nothing is mixed up, but the whole library sits in one place, so one search covers all of it.
- What if I stop using one of the assistants?
- The conversations you already downloaded stay exactly where they are. Dropping a provider does not take its history with it.
- Do I need a separate TotalRecalls account per provider?
- No. There is no TotalRecalls account. You sign in to each AI provider you already use, and the app reads that local session on your machine.
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