save complete history

[monperrus]

thanks for the great repo.

right now, we may lose interesting chatgpt answers if we don't copy-paste.

to solve this problem, it would be great to save the history of both prompts and answers (and model version and query date for traceability).

[marcolardera]

Thank you for the feedback, it's on my to-do list ;)

[mk-pmb]

Thanks for this great tool! It helped me a lot today. I'd be interested in the logging as well. I tried using this workaround:

rlwrap "python3 ./chatgpt.py | tee --append -- logs/$(date +%y%m%d.%H%M%S).$$.log"

but that doesn't fly with the fancy output formatting.

Also I noticed there are seemingly-random numbers in front of my prompts. I guess they are for somehow referencing earlier prompts in the current conversation. Maybe we can log them in a way that makes them usable accross sessions?

[marcolardera]

The "random numbers" are the number of token used for that session, as mentioned in the README.

There is no way for ChatGPT to continue a conversation from a previous session, unless you save the message history and push it in the new prompt BUT there is the token limit to take in account (4096 for gpt 3.5 turbo, more for gpt 4).

I will implement the save/restore feature in the future but that doesen't mean that you will be able to continue a conversation with ChatGPT forever because at a certain point you will hit the token limit.

[andrius]

It's would be definitely a great thing:

1. to save current dialog to the .md file (i.e. /save foobar.md);
2. to load context (/load foobar.md or /context foobar.md)

[mk-pmb]

3. an option for a path where to save by default.

[marcolardera]

With #27 now chat history is automatically saved in json format.

However, there are still two features to made in order to have this issue closed:

1. Import previous chat in order to restart the conversation from that point
2. Option to export in a more human readable format (txt or markdown)

[marcolardera]

Update:

I just committed 4b790b1

This introduces the capability of restoring a previous chat session. See README for details. I think this works quite nicely but please give me any feedback :)

[mk-pmb]

Sorry for my accidential spam post a minute ago. (The license warning was meant for another project.)
I'd prefer "latest" or "prev" or "previous" for restoring the latest saved session, because "last" evokes (at least in me) a faint notion of doom.

[mk-pmb]

I now had opportunity to test it, and it works as expected. Thanks! 👍

[dwymark]

It would be nice if restoring a conversation printed all of the messages that were exchanged in that conversation. I know you would have to look at the JSON to know which conversation is which (other than last), but it would still be a nice convenience IMO.