The AI Export Habit Nobody Talks About (But Should) Everyone's obsessed with prompt engineering. "Use this framework!" "Add this system prompt!" "Never say please!" Meanwhile, the single most impactful change I made to my AI workflow has nothing to do with prompts. I started exporting every conversation worth keeping. That's it. No complex system. No special technique. Just: if the conversation taught me something, I save it. Why This Isn't Obvious We're so focused on getting better answers from AI that we forget the answers are useless if we can't find them later. Think about it: you spend 45 minutes with Claude on a database problem. You explore three approaches, rule out two, and land on something elegant. Then you close the tab. Two weeks later, someone asks about database optimization. You vaguely remember the conversation but can't reconstruct the details. The platform's search is garbage. You end up starting from scratch. That happened to me. More times than I want to admit.…