second-brain-chat-import

# Import chat history Chat history is the most underrated source a person owns and the most sensitive. It records their reasoning, not just facts, and it also records things they would not want in a file that gets synced, committed and backed up. ## Core rule Privacy pass before triage, triage before ingestion. Never ingest an export wholesale. ## Workflow 1. **Convert** with `scripts/chat_export_to_md.py` into one file per conversation, filtering out short exchanges. 2. **Privacy pass.** List conversations touching health, money, other people's private information, or confidential work. The user decides; you delete nothing on your own. 3. **Triage the rest** into three piles: worth ingesting (they worked something out, decided something, or got an explanation that landed), worth archiving in `raw/`, and delete. 4. **Report the lists.** Move nothing yet. 5. **On approval, ingest** the first pile, with the instruction that these are the user's own thinking: build pages around what they were working out and what they concluded, not around the assistant's explanations. ## Output format ``` Converted: <n> conversations (<n> skipped as too short) Privacy review needed: <n> <title> - <why> Worth ingesting: <n> <title> - <what it worked out> Archive only: <n> Delete suggested: <n> ``` ## Calibration Expect roughly nine in ten conversations to be throwaway lookups. A triage that recommends ingesting most of the export has not filtered. Record dates on every page. A position from two years ago is not a current belief, and the vault has to be able to tell the difference.