How do you save AI research output? Share your workflow!
Hey PH community 👋
I'm the maker of Gemini Export Studio — a Chrome extension that lets you export Gemini chats to PDF, Markdown, JSON, CSV, PNG, and Plain Text, 100% locally.
We've been live for a week now and I'm doing something a bit different: I want to build the next features directly based on how YOU work with AI output.
So tell me — when you finish a deep research session or long Gemini/ChatGPT conversation, what do you actually do with the output?
Do you:
📋 Copy-paste it into Notion or Obsidian?
📄 Screenshot it and forget about it?
📧 Email it to yourself?
🗂️ Try to organize it somehow and give up?
I'm especially curious about researchers, developers, students, and writers in this community.
Your answer directly shapes what I build next. Drop your workflow below — even a one-liner helps a ton!
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I organize AI outputs in obsidian with tags and links so everything stays searchable and connected.
Gemini Export Studio
@brielle_marie
That sounds like a great workflow for keeping everything organized in Obsidian! If you want to streamline getting your chats over there, this feature is actually already available through my Chrome extension:
https://buntys2010.github.io/Gemini-Export-Studio/
Here are the steps to get it set up:
Install the extension here https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gemini-export-studio/oondabmhecdagnndhjhgnhhhnninpagc
Close your browser and reopen it.
Go to gemini.google.com and select any chat.
On the bottom right, you should see an export button. (The color currently blends in a bit with the UI, but I am working on changing this for the next version!)
Click it to export your chat.
Just a quick heads-up: it works perfectly on Chrome right now. If you use Brave, I've published a fix that should be available in the next few days.
If you find the extension useful and it saves you some time or money, any support is hugely appreciated here: https://ko-fi.com/buntyshah
Do you find most people actually go back to their saved chats, or do they just collect them and forget?
Personally, I save the prompts and the results. Most of the time, I use Notion or a basic text editor, since I rarely go back and read the output from the chats (in case it's for research), to be honest. I would always prefer to get either a PDF or a sheet, depending on the type of output and which form would be easier to read :))
My workflow has evolved a ton this year. I used to dump research into Notion, but context gets buried fast. These days I pipe key findings directly to Hello Aria (our AI assistant, launching on PH April 10th) — it keeps context across conversations, so when I ask "what did we figure out about X?" it actually knows. For longer deep-research sessions I still markdown-export and tag by project. The insight that changed how I work: treat AI output as an input to your personal knowledge base, not just a chat transcript to scroll through.