Setting Up Claude Memory: A Practical Migration Guide from ChatGPT

Published on 04.03.2026

PRODUCTIVITY

How I Set Up My Claude Properly in Less Than 15 Minutes (Switching from ChatGPT)

TLDR: Anthropic made Claude's long-term memory free for all users and shipped a ChatGPT history import tool. The article walks through a four-step setup process covering memory, data migration, user preferences, and project workspaces that transforms Claude from a generic assistant into something that actually knows how you work.

How I set up my Claude properly in less than 15 minutes (switching from ChatGPT)