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Import & export

Bring the memory you already have — and take all of it with you, any time.

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Cold start is optional. Import what you already have and the Dreamer consolidates it on its first night — a wiki instead of an empty screen. And everything that lives here leaves whole: one click exports your memory as files you own.

Import from files

Open app.oceandb.ai/dashboard/import.

Markdown / Obsidian. Choose files or a whole vault folder. Each file becomes an entry — the title comes from frontmatter or the filename, a frontmatter block is stripped from the content. Re-importing skips what is already there, so running it twice is safe.

ChatGPT. Request your export in ChatGPT (Settings → Data controls → Export data), then upload the zip it emails you — or just its conversations.json. Each conversation becomes one entry with the full back-and-forth. Parsing happens in your browser; large archives take a minute.

Imported entries are embedded overnight by the maintenance sweep, so semantic recall finds them from the next day; text search sees them immediately.

Import through your agent

Memory that lives in CLAUDE.md, Claude Code auto-memory, or scattered notes doesn’t need an uploader — your agent reads it and remembers. With the OceanDB MCP connected, paste this into Claude Code from your project directory:

Read CLAUDE.md and any memory/notes files in this project
(~/.claude/CLAUDE.md too). For each durable fact, decision, or
preference worth keeping, call the OceanDB remember tool — one
memory per call, a clear title, the fact as content. Skip
boilerplate and anything transient. Report what you remembered.

remember embeds each memory as it lands, so these are searchable immediately.

Export

From the same page, two downloads:

  • Markdown zip — every entry and wiki page (archived included) as .md files with frontmatter. Readable anywhere, greppable forever.
  • SQL dump — entries, pages, links, insights, projects, and tags as plain insert statements, ids preserved so the citation graph stays coherent.

No lock-in is a feature of the memory, not a promise on a pricing page.