# Your Groupthink history, in a GitHub repo you own

Published: 2026-10-03
Source: https://groupthink.com/releases/export-and-repo-sync/

![A voice note about Nora Sandoval shown in Groupthink's Conversations list, with an arrow to the same note as a Markdown day file, captures/2026/2026-10-01.md, in a GitHub repo alongside meetings, actions, intel and memory files.](https://wp1.groupthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/export-and-repo-sync-featured.png)

Groupthink is your personal CRM: the notes you take and the things you say about the people in your life, kept in one place. Now that record can also live somewhere you control.

Two things shipped.

**Export, free for everyone.** Open User settings, then the Account tab. There are two buttons. **Export my data** gives you everything: your people, what Groupthink has learned about them, your notes, and your meetings. **Export my captures** gives you just the things you said or typed to Groupthink, as one Markdown file per day. Click one, and a download link arrives by email a few minutes later.

**Repo sync, on Pro.** Connect a private GitHub repo, and Groupthink commits your meetings and captures there as Markdown. The first time the connection verifies, it backfills your whole capture history, one commit per day. After that, every new capture lands within about a minute of being processed, and every meeting recap lands when it is ready.

## Why we built it this way

Some tools describe the memory they build about you as non-transferable. That is the lock-in. The more you use them, the more it costs to leave.

We think the record of your relationships belongs to you. It should leave with you, and you should be able to check that claim yourself. So we made the export and the repo the same files: the day files in a synced repo are byte-for-byte what you get from Export my captures. It is a folder of Markdown. You can open it and grep it without Groupthink.

## What a capture is

A capture is anything you said or typed to Groupthink yourself. A voice note recorded after a dinner. A line typed about a person in the Capture Box. A note on someone’s page, or from the iPhone app. A text thread you pasted in. A question you asked Groupthink about someone, along with the answer you got back.

Content that arrived from a connected source (email, Slack, Drive, GitHub activity, screen content) is not a capture. It is in the full export instead.

## What the repo looks like

```
captures/
  README.md
  2026/
    2026-08-20.md
    2026-08-21.md
meetings/
  2026-08-21-weekly-with-adam.md
  open-threads.md
actions.md
intel/
  people-dossiers.md
memory/
  MEMORY.md
```

A day file:

```markdown
# 2026-08-20 — Thursday, August 20, 2026

_Times are America/Los_Angeles._

### 14:05 — voice → Adam Chen

Adam is worried about Q3 pipeline. Follow up Friday.

### 16:30 — ask → Adam Chen

**You asked:**

What does Adam care about right now?

**Groupthink answered:**

Adam cares about landing Q3.
```

Each block ends with a hidden comment carrying the capture ID, so the same capture is never written twice and backfill is safe to run again.

## Use it with Claude Code or Obsidian

Clone the repo and open a Claude Code session in it. Groupthink writes one or two lines per meeting to `memory/MEMORY.md`, which you can point Claude Code at. `grep -r "Adam" captures/` finds every capture that mentions Adam. Obsidian opens the folder as a vault with no setup. This is the workflow I run on my own consulting work, and now it is built in.

## Limits

Each capture is written to the repo when it is processed. If you later edit it or file it to a different person, the block in the repo is rewritten in place on the next sync. If you edited that block by hand in the repo, your edit is replaced. Text you add outside a capture’s block is left alone. The export always reflects the current state.

Repo sync is set up from the web or desktop app. The iPhone app shows the export buttons only.

Clicking **Connect** saves the connection and checks it against GitHub in one step. Nothing syncs until that check passes. If it does not, the section shows a red message that tells you what to fix.

## Pricing

Export is free on every plan, including the free plan. Repo sync is part of Pro, $15 a month, and the 30-day free trial includes it.

Setup takes about ten minutes, most of it on GitHub creating a private repo and giving the Groupthink app access to it. There is no token to create. The walkthrough is under [Set up repo sync](https://groupthink.com/docs/github_repo_sync/#set-up-repo-sync), and the export details are in [Export your data](https://groupthink.com/docs/export_your_data/).

Groupthink remembers the people in your life so you show up with context. Now the record it keeps is one you can take with you. Open settings and click Export my captures to see what is already there.