Hello AI Fan!
I am starting a new series for those of you are past the “curious” stage and using AI on a regular basis. It’s cleverly called Tuesday’s Tutorials! We are kicking this off with a pretty hot topic: Embracing Claude by Anthropic.
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AI TUTORIAL
If you've been using ChatGPT for a while, you've probably noticed something. The longer you use it, the better it gets at understanding you. It knows you prefer bullet points over paragraphs. It knows you're planning a kitchen remodel. It knows you have a daughter in college and a dog named Biscuit.
That's not magic. That's memory. And if you've been thinking about using Claude more seriously, there's been one very reasonable thing holding you back: you don't want to start over.
Here's the good news. You don't have to. And you don't have to give up ChatGPT either.
I Just Did This Myself. Here's What Happened.
I want to be upfront about something. I'm not leaving ChatGPT. I use it regularly and it still does things I rely on. But I've been using Claude more and more, and I reached a point where I wanted it to actually know me. Not just who I am as a person, but everything I've built with this newsletter and website. All the context, the goals, the voice, the audience. The stuff that took months to develop.
So I ran the migration last week. The whole thing took about five minutes. My only moment of confusion was when ChatGPT gave me two separate prompts instead of one clean response. I just ran both of them and pasted everything into Claude. Problem solved.
The result? Claude now knows things about me that took me months to teach ChatGPT. And I didn't have to type a single one of them from scratch.
What Is "AI Memory," Anyway?
When AI assistants "remember" you, they're storing small notes about who you are, what you care about, and how you like to communicate. Over time, those notes add up to something genuinely useful. Your AI stops feeling like a stranger and starts feeling like a well-briefed assistant who actually gets you.
The problem has always been that those memories live inside one platform. Use a second AI tool and it's like starting a new job where no one got the memo about who you are.
Claude just fixed that.
The Import Memory Feature: What It Does
Anthropic built a feature that lets you bring your preferences and context from other AI tools directly into Claude. With one copy-paste, Claude updates its memory and picks up right where you left off. claude Memory is available on all paid plans.
Here's How to Do It
Two steps. Neither requires a computer science degree.
Step one: Go to claude.ai, click Settings, then Capabilities, and find the option to import memory from other AI providers. Claude gives you a prompt — a pre-written question — that you copy and paste into ChatGPT. You're asking your old AI to write you a transfer summary of everything it knows about you.
Step two: Copy what ChatGPT gives you, head back to Claude's memory settings, and paste it in. Claude reads the summary and builds out your memory profile automatically.
One heads up from my own experience: ChatGPT may give you two separate responses instead of one clean answer. Don't panic. Just run both, copy everything it gives you, and paste the whole thing into Claude. It sorts it out.
One Smart Upgrade I Didn't Use (But You Should)
Here's a tip I missed during my own migration, and I'm passing it along so you don't make the same mistake.
When you run the summary prompt in ChatGPT, try switching to the "Thinking" model first. That's OpenAI's more advanced reasoning option, called o1 or o3. A regular model might pull out five or ten facts about you. The Thinking model digs deeper, sometimes finding three times as much useful context because it takes multiple passes through your history.
Think of it this way. A regular model skims your file. A Thinking model actually reads it.
I used the standard model and it still worked well. But if you've been using ChatGPT heavily for a year or more, the Thinking model is worth the extra thirty seconds it takes to switch.
What Claude Does With Your Information
Once your memories are imported, Claude doesn't pile everything together. It keeps project context separate so nothing bleeds together, and lets you see and edit everything it remembers. claude Your vacation planning doesn't mix with your health notes. Work stays in its own lane. And if Claude gets something wrong, you can fix it directly. You're always in control.
Claude also keeps updating your memory based on new conversations, so it gets more accurate over time, not less.
The Prompts You'll Actually Use
Copy this and paste it into ChatGPT. If it gives you two responses, use both.
The Migration Prompt:
"I'm switching from ChatGPT to Claude. Please review our entire chat history, including my saved memories, custom instructions, and any specific preferences I've shared. Generate a comprehensive summary of everything you know about me, my work style, my projects, and my preferences so I can provide this context to my new AI assistant."
If Claude imports something that's off, use this to clean it up:
The Correction Prompt:
"I've reviewed the memories you imported. [Point A] is slightly incorrect — please update it to reflect [Correct Information]. Also, please prioritize [Specific Context] for all future project-related tasks."
You Don't Have to Pick a Side
This is the part I really want your audience to hear. The goal was never to make you choose between AI tools. Different tools do different things well, and that's okay. What matters is that when you do use Claude, it should actually know who you are. It should understand your life, your projects, and your priorities without you having to re-explain yourself every single time.
That's what this feature does. It closes the gap between the AI that knows you and the AI you want to use more.
Five minutes. That's all it took. And now both of my AI assistants are fully briefed.
Try This Today
Here's your assignment before next Tuesday: Open claude.ai, go to Settings, find Capabilities, and look at the Import Memory option. Even if you don't run the full migration today, just get familiar with what's there. The whole thing is less intimidating than it sounds.
I know because I just did it.
Want to jump in? Start the process directly at claude.com/import-memory.
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