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Exporting chats

Sometimes you want a conversation outside of Ekorbia — to paste into a doc, share with a colleague, archive for later, or round-trip into another tool. Ekorbia exports any chat to either Markdown or JSON.

How to export

Click the kebab menu (⋯) in the top-right of the chat pane. You’ll see two options:

  • Export to Markdown — clean, human-readable transcript
  • Export to JSON — full structured data including tool calls and timestamps

A save dialog opens; pick where to write the file.

The kebab is hidden on private chats. There’s nothing on disk to export from an ephemeral session. See Private chats.

Markdown export

The Markdown export reads like a conversation, not a debug transcript:

## You

How do I install Ekorbia?

## Assistant

Download the latest DMG from the website...

Each message is tagged with its role as a level-2 heading, then the body verbatim. Assistant replies keep their full Markdown formatting (headings, lists, code blocks), so the export renders correctly when you open it in any Markdown viewer.

Tool-call internals are filtered out. Messages from the assistant invoking a tool (role: tool) are noise to a human reader, so Markdown exports drop them. You see the conversation as you’d remember it, not as the model would.

JSON export

The JSON export preserves every row in the conversation, including:

  • System messages (memory file, attached prompts, citation injection)
  • User messages
  • Assistant messages
  • Tool calls (function name, arguments)
  • Tool results (the response the model received from the tool)
  • Timestamps
  • Source attribution (whether a file save came from a tool call or a manual code-block save)

This format is the right pick if you want to round-trip into another tool or post-process programmatically.

What you can do with an export

  • Paste a Markdown export into Notion / Obsidian / your wiki as a clean writeup
  • Email a Markdown export to a colleague — most mail clients render it
  • Pipe a JSON export through jq to extract specific messages or build a dataset
  • Diff two JSON exports to see how a conversation evolved if you re-ran with a different prompt

The export is read-only — your chat in Ekorbia stays untouched.