Parker Ortolani makes a great point about potential lock-in for AI products that know a lot about you. Portability would be a good thing to work on early:
Memory should be exportable and importable from every provider. We do not need a new kind of proprietary format or anything like that. We just need OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, xAI, Microsoft, and others to implement memory and incorporate a way to migrate all of your chat history over in a click or two.
It reminds me of this recent feature from Gravatar to export your profile preferences for AI tools as a simple Markdown file. It would be so useful to have a Markdown export with the most important memory and chat history for AI.
How fascinating if Markdown becomes a portable export format? In Micro.blog we have custom importers for 10 different blogging platforms, all with their own file formats. Maybe in the future it’s just Markdown and HTML. (The .bar format already is partially HTML.)
