I mostly text on Signal with disappearing messages so I wouldn't be able to do this. Most people are fine with disappearing messages at 4 weeks, but a few people like to keep their chats forever.

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saligne 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

there's a tool for extracting chat history from signal desktop, you could build a plaintext and attachment archive with that if it runs regularly on your pc and appends new chats from the last run.

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dwedge 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I'd be pretty angry if I found out someone I chatted to on Signal was running a service to workaround my message expiry choice and archive my messages. And breaking that trust just to run it through an LLM?

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Squeeeez an hour ago | parent | next [-]

They might not be doing it on purpose, remember that microsoft windows "take a screenshot every few seconds and send it to an llm" thing?

	▲	captn3m0 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Signal pushed a fix for that: https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/

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rablackburn an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Everything old is new again. This is basically the debate over IRC Bouncers all over again.

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nanocat an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

fucken yep. don’t do this.

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valzevul 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you keep separate notes for things like recommendations or addresses? I often dig through my chats to find them.

	▲	Cider9986 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah I use NotesNook for big notes or projects. I also use the Note to Self which is built into Signal and appears just like any other conversation. I use that for temporary stuff like addresses and keep it clean.