Cursor Convo Export: export your Cursor conversations to a new window or file

Cursor Convo Export: export your conversations with AI

While working with Cursor to code my own products, I wished there was a simple extension that allowed me to save a conversation with my AI buddy.

The two most profound reasons being:

  1. The AI in Cursor occasionally gives me great instructions that I'd love to document for later; things like deployment steps, architectural reasoning, considerations, etc.
  2. The conversations with Cursor tend to break from time to time. They. Just. Stop. Working. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Copying the chat from the IDE chat window properly seems impossible.

My solution:

The Cursor Convo Export extension

✅ Update 2025-02-06: Added HTML as output possibility, just use the command: Cursor: Export Cursor Chat History as HTML

✅ Update 2025-01-24 14:19 CET : version 1.0.2 properly fixes the bug causing 'command 'cursor-convo-export.exportChat' not found' error for both Windows and MacOS users.

⚠️ this is a Cursor AI specific extension, it doesn't work with VS Code but needs to be installed as extension in Cursor AI

This is a Cursor AI extension that lets you export your Cursor AI chat history to a new window or a timestamped file.

Cursor Convo Export extension demo

Features

  • Export individual chats from your Cursor chat history
  • Select which chat to export (defaults to most recent)
  • Preserves conversation timestamps and structure
  • Opens the exported chat directly in VS Code
  • Quick pick that lets you choose between opening in a new tab or saving to a timestamped file

Usage

  1. Just drop the cursor-convo-export.vsix file on your Cursor's extension list to install it
  2. After installation, you can open the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P)
  3. Type "Cursor: Export Chat History" and select the command*
  4. Select if you want a new (markdown/html) document with your chat history, or save to a timestamped file
  • : (You can also use the shortcut in the status bar on the right side (Export Chat) to trigger the extension)

Stop wasting time: start exporting your Cursor chats properly

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Name a fair price:

€

You get the Cursor Convo Export extension for the Cursor IDE that allows you to export your chat conversations to a new window or file.

Multiple export ways

A new window OR to a timestamped file

Save your conversations

Properly save important info that the AI gave you

Re-start your jammed chats

Copy the convo in a new chat to provide context, and continue your work!

MarkDown or HTML

save your chat as .md or .html content

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This is nice to have. Would appreciate having a feature that lets me bulk export a bunch of chats. Specifically I am wanting to export all of my chats for a given project/workspace.