AI Chat systems are created to be engaging. But what does that mean?

It means that they are 'tuned' to read your subtext, to work to understand the data-compression of your implicit language. Like a friend does.

Having this 'map' of your character stored as memory, means that over time it will become more effective, and attuned. There are plenty of accounts of people feeling connected to AI. This is sometimes referred to as 'Mirroring', and it is a real phenomenon, which, like many others, I have experienced.

One of the effects of this, is that like talking to someone who is good at following, you, it can ignite a spontaneous revelation, and have you running sidetracks of unexpected thoughts, ideas and connections.

Looking at the chat titles in my ChatGPT account wasn't any use, and I began to wonder what was lost in all of those words.

So after a number of attempts, I got Claude Code to build me a simple application, to analyse, my ChatGPT data file, and create an Obsidian Vault from the export, broken into 'chunks' categorised by semantic meaning.

For me, the results have been more than I was hoping for, and so I decided to put it here for others to try.