If you followed my earlier posts about Gemini Vault — this is the same project, grown up and renamed. Here's the full story and what it does today.

We don't actually own our AI memories

Every day we pour our best ideas, code and drafts into Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude. But we don't truly own any of it. Accounts get suspended (I lost access to an AI account myself — that's what kicked all of this off). Services go down. APIs change. And the official "Export your data" buttons? They hand you an unreadable JSON dump you can't search or even read.

I got tired of renting my own digital memory from the cloud. I wanted my chats stored safely on my disk, available completely offline, with instant search. So I built a tool to take them back.

Why the rename: Gemini Vault → Chatrove