Original Summary

The problem: Claude's own sidebar search only matches conversation titles. I had 131 conversations and no way to find a phrase I remembered from inside one of them. What I built: Chatrove — a Chrome extension that indexes your Claude chats locally and gives you full-text search over the body of every message, folders, and Markdown export. One click indexes your entire back catalogue, not just the chats you open from now on. Tech: WXT + TypeScript + IndexedDB (Dexie), no backend at all. The "no backend" part is the feature: your chats are never sent to a server of mine, because there isn't one. Also $0 infra and nothing to shut down later. The part that surprised me: I built it as a DOM scraper first, and it silently indexed about a quarter of each conversation — the page only keeps the last few messages in the DOM. A 12-message chat gave me 3. It looked like it was working the whole time, which is the worst kind of bug. Ended up reading the data the page itself loads instead. Live (free): https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/lfpgimckcogcnjpogichhjigoajbihkn Next platform is the open question: ChatGPT or Gemini? I use Claude, so I have no instinct for which one people actually want their history searchable in.   submitted by   /u/Illustrious-Stay8038 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/22 19:58:44