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#cancelchatgpt has been trending this week - people are jumping ship from ChatGPT to Claude in droves! Look at this headline:
It all started when Anthropic refused to drop safeguards for the US military around the use of Claude models for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons (you can read more about that here).
OpenAI stepped in to replace them, which angered a huge number of ChatGPT users.
Anthropic then jumped on that and immediately made Memory features free inside Claude + released a 60-second switch hack that lets you import your built-up memories from ChatGPT without starting from scratch.
I've been hyping up Claude for the past year non-stop, because it's soooo much more powerful for work, content, business, and creative writing than ChatGPT.
So in this newsletter, I’ve put together a quick switchover checklist for you to make the process easy, quick and seamless.
But before we dive in:
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TL;DR - today’s lineup:
One Serious Deep Dive 💡: The 6-step Claude switchover checklist. Everything you need to migrate your voice, your brand, and your AI brain from ChatGPT to Claude in one sitting.
One Powerful Prompt 🤖: The exact prompt to extract everything ChatGPT knows about you and import it into Claude's Memory in 60 seconds.
Piping Hot AI Tea 🫖: Sam Altman addresses the Pentagon deal "red lines," Perplexity launches an AI digital worker, and scientists shrink an AI brain to pocket size.
💌 Your say genuinely shapes this newsletter: there’s a one‑click feedback poll at the very end - let me know what you think 💜
One Serious Deep Dive 💡
The 6-Step Claude Switchover Checklist
Claude is genuinely better at learning your voice, remembering information about you, following your instructions precisely, and producing writing that sounds more natural.
I’m not just saying this. Tom's Guide found the same across multiple head-to-head tests that you can dive into here.
So if you're feeling like a change is best for you, this is your checklist to get it done FAST:
Step 1: Create your Claude account & download the app
Head to claude.ai and sign up. You've got 3 options:
Free: You get web, iOS, Android, and desktop access, web search, file uploads, code execution, Slack and Google Workspace connectors, and as of this week, Memory (which used to be paid-only).
Pro ($20/month) is where it gets seriously good. You get Cowork, unlimited Projects, Research, access to more Claude models, Claude in Excel, and significantly more usage. If you're using AI for your business or content creation, this is the tier.
Max (from $100/month) is what I'm on. You get up to 20x more usage than Pro, higher output limits, priority access when the servers are busy, early access to new features, and more. I use Cowork almost daily and the higher limits mean I never hit a wall mid-workflow. For me the maths works out easily.
Download the app on desktop and your phone too. You want Claude on every device so it becomes your default, not something you try when you remember.
Step 2: Use Claude's official import tool (60 seconds, literally)
Before you do anything else, go to your Claude settings and find "Capabilities". Claude gives you a ready-made prompt to paste into ChatGPT. It asks ChatGPT to export every memory and piece of context it has stored about you.
I’ve added this prompt for you in the Powerful Prompt section below this
Copy that prompt, paste it into ChatGPT, copy the output, paste it back into Claude. Done. Claude now has the baseline of everything ChatGPT knew about you.
This gets you 80% of the way there. The remaining steps are what take you from "Claude knows who I am" to "Claude is my genius assistant 💜".
Step 3: Download your full ChatGPT history as backup
Go to Settings > Data Controls > Export Data in ChatGPT.
You'll get a download link via email with your full conversation history, custom instructions, and uploaded files.
This is your safety net. Even if you keep using ChatGPT for some things, you want this on file.
While you wait, open Settings > Personalization > Customize ChatGPT and copy-paste your Custom Instructions into a notes app. You'll use these in Step 4.
Step 4: Set up your Claude profile
Inside Claude, go to Settings > Profile. This is where you tell Claude who you are, what you do, and how you like to communicate.
Paste those Custom Instructions you copied as a starting point, then tighten them up.
Claude follows instructions more literally than ChatGPT. This is actually a good thing, but it means you need to make these good!
Instead of "I'm a content creator" try: "I'm a freelance copywriter who writes for busy 30+ women building side businesses. Conversational, direct, actionable tone. No corporate jargon."
More precise instructions = less correcting later.
Step 5: Create your first Project
A Project is a dedicated workspace for one area of your work. Every conversation inside it has automatic access to your instructions, project files and other chats within that Project too!
This is similar to the Projects feature in ChatGPT (but better in my opinion).
Start with your most important workflow. Maybe that's content creation or work for a specific client. Click "Create Project" and give it a clear name like "Newsletter Writer" or "Social Media Content".
Upload as much context + past examples as possible and write Custom Instructions to help Claude understand what that Project is all about.
Step 6: Start exploring Cowork
This is the feature that made me love Claude 10x more.
Cowork lets Claude work on tasks in the background while you do other things. It reads your files, builds documents, runs multi-step workflows. I've had it drafting content, organising my files and doing all sorts of complex multi-step workflows.
If you want a full walkthrough of how to actually get started with it, I broke it all down in a recent newsletter that you can read here.
Between Projects, Memory, and Cowork, Claude stops feeling like a chatbot and starts feeling like a second brain that actually does things for you (really well).
What about ChatGPT?
I still love ChatGPT’s voice feature on the app and I pull it up all the time in my personal life to ask quick questions. But anything involving my brand, my voice, or my business strategy goes through Claude.
So I use ChatGPT for my personal life and Claude for work.
The sensitive stuff lives in the system I trust more with it. And I get the best of both.
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One Powerful Prompt 🤖
The Claude Switchover Prompt
I mentioned this in Step 2 above. This is the prompt you paste into ChatGPT to extract everything it knows about you, so you can import it straight into Claude's Memory. Copy it, paste it into ChatGPT, copy the output, then go to Claude Settings > Capabilities > Import Memory and paste it in.
Export all of my stored memories and any context you've learned about me from past conversations. Preserve my words verbatim where possible, especially for instructions and preferences.
## Categories (output in this order):
1. **Instructions**: Rules I've explicitly asked you to follow going forward — tone, format, style, "always do X", "never do Y", and corrections to your behavior. Only include rules from stored memories, not from conversations.
2. **Identity**: Name, age, location, education, family, relationships, languages, and personal interests.
3. **Career**: Current and past roles, companies, and general skill areas.
4. **Projects**: Projects I meaningfully built or committed to. Ideally ONE entry per project. Include what it does, current status, and any key decisions. Use the project name or a short descriptor as the first words of the entry.
5. **Preferences**: Opinions, tastes, and working-style preferences that apply broadly.
## Format:
Use section headers for each category. Within each category, list one entry per line, sorted by oldest date first. Format each line as:
[YYYY-MM-DD] - Entry content here.
If no date is known, use [unknown] instead.
## Output:
- Wrap the entire export in a single code block for easy copying.
- After the code block, state whether this is the complete set or if more remain.Piping Hot AI Tea 🫖
OpenAI's Pentagon Deal Sparks Debate: Altman Addresses "Red Lines" and Industry-Government Relations
Sam Altman publicly addressed concerns about OpenAI's rapid deal with the US Department of War, emphasising safety boundaries and the need for industry-government cooperation amidst rising tensions.
Perplexity Unveils its OpenClaw alternative
Perplexity has launched a powerful general-purpose digital worker that unifies and orchestrates up to 19 AI models to execute complex tasks, challenging the previous OpenClaw concept.
Scientists Create Pocket-Sized AI Brain, Drastically Improving Efficiency
Researchers have developed an AI vision model shrunk to 1/1000th of its original size, suggesting a future of significantly more efficient AI systems.
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See you next week,
Jess xx
