Pick a random hour in your workday and count the AI tabs open. Most people land on three or four: ChatGPT for the broad brainstorm, Claude for the careful reasoning, Gemini for long-context document work, and a coding agent like Cursor or Claude Code in the editor. None of them know what the others did.
The capture-recall pattern
The fix is a discipline more than a feature: capture every chat that produced a useful decision, recall it the moment another tool would benefit. Two rules.
- Capture immediately. The moment you finish a chat that matters, hit the capsule button before closing the tab. Five-second habit.
- Recall by intent, not by source. Don't think 'where was that Claude chat?' — think 'I need the rate-limit discussion'. Hybrid search finds it across every provider.
What 'matters' means
- A decision you'll need to defend later (architecture, tradeoffs, deprecation reasoning).
- A debugging session that surfaced a non-obvious root cause.
- A first-pass design you'll iterate on across multiple sessions.
- Any chat over ~10 turns — the cost of re-creating that context is high.
Concrete daily example
Morning: brainstorm new endpoint with ChatGPT → capture. Midday: implement in Cursor → Cursor's agent uses dropdat_recall to pull the morning's chat. Evening: write up the change for the team → Claude reads the capsule, drafts the PR description.
What stops working without this
Without a capture-recall loop, every context switch costs you the same five minutes of re-explaining. Across a day that's an hour of slow tax you don't notice. Across a quarter you've lost a week.
Tools you need
- Browser extension that captures the live DOM of ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini / Grok / Copilot / Perplexity.
- Tagging that takes one keystroke (not a modal).
- Hybrid search — keyword to find the exact phrase, semantic to find the topic when you've forgotten the phrase.
- MCP server so your coding agents can read the same library the browser writes to.
dropdat ships all four. Install the extension, capture three chats today, and tomorrow ask Claude Code to recall one. Once you feel that work, the habit takes care of itself.