I Tried Saving AI Conversations Three Different Ways. Only One Stuck. Before I settled on a system, I went through the usual progression: Phase 1: Screenshots Yes, really. I'd screenshot long Claude responses with code blocks and paste them into Notion. It worked until I needed to actually use the code. Copying from an image is its own special kind of pain. Not to mention the search problem. Good luck finding "that thing about Redis caching" in a wall of screenshots. Phase 2: Copy-Paste into Google Docs This lasted longer. I'd select all, copy, paste into a doc. The formatting was always wrong though. Code lost its indentation. Markdown turned into weird rich text artifacts. Math formulas became unrecognizable. I spent more time fixing formatting than I saved by copying. Phase 3: Actually Exporting This is where I am now. One click, the whole conversation comes out as a clean file — PDF for reading, Markdown for notes, whatever format I need.…