How to export a Gemini chat to Markdown

Which method fits your case

Method 1: Share & export to Google Docs, then download as Markdown

Google's own path to Markdown goes through Docs.

1. Below a Gemini reply, click Share & export.
2. Choose Export to Docs. Gemini saves a new document in your Google Drive.
3. Open the document, then File, Download, Markdown (.md).

Google's help page on exporting responses from Gemini Apps lists the other targets from the same menu: a Gmail draft, Sheets for a reply that contains a table, Colab and Replit for code.

Every one of them works on a single reply. A ten-turn conversation means ten documents, none of which contains what you asked. Workspace accounts add another variable: Google states that export options depend on your organization's settings.

Method 2: Google Takeout for the full history

Takeout is the bulk route. The steps below follow the University of Michigan's IT documentation, which is clearer than most on this point:

1. Go to takeout.google.com and click Deselect all.
2. Select the My Activity product.
3. Open its activity options, deselect everything again, and keep only Gemini Apps.
4. Create the export. Google emails you when the ZIP archive is ready.

The archive holds an HTML file containing your chat threads. One detail trips people up: the product you want is My Activity, not the top-level Gemini entry in the Takeout list.

As a backup, this is the right tool. As a way to pull one conversation into your notes, it means opening a large HTML page, finding the thread, and converting it yourself.

Method 3: export the open Gemini chat to Markdown with Markforge

Markforge is a free Chrome extension that converts the page in front of you to Markdown. It includes a parser written for Gemini's interface, which pairs each of your prompts with the reply that followed.

1. Install Markforge from the Chrome Web Store.
2. Open the conversation at gemini.google.com/app.
3. On a long chat, scroll to the top so the earlier turns load.
4. Click the Markforge icon, or press Alt+M.
5. Edit the title or content if needed, then Copy or Download .md.

The parser removes the buttons under each reply and the inline citation markers Gemini inserts into its text. Conversion happens in the browser. Nothing is sent anywhere, and there is no account to create.

What the Markdown file looks like

---
title: "Trip budget for Lisbon"
source: "Gemini"
url: "https://gemini.google.com/app/your-conversation-id"
description: "Help me plan a four day trip to Lisbon on a tight budget"
---

# Trip budget for Lisbon

### User

Help me plan a four day trip to Lisbon on a tight budget

* * *

### Assistant

Four days is enough for the center and one day trip. A workable split:

Turns are labeled User and Assistant and separated by a horizontal rule. The frontmatter template is editable in the settings, and you can add fixed tags to every export with the Auto tags setting, for instance gemini or ai-chat.

Take a Gemini conversation to Claude or ChatGPT

A Markdown transcript is the simplest way to move a conversation to another assistant. Export it, paste it into the new chat, and ask the model to continue from the last message. The popup shows a token count for the transcript, which tells you roughly how much context it will take. It is computed with a GPT tokenizer, so read it as an estimate for other models. The full method is in how to move a conversation between assistants.

Limits worth knowing

• Scroll first on long chats. Gemini loads older messages as you scroll up. Markforge exports what the page holds at that moment.
• Tables are flattened. Version 1.0.0 does not rebuild Markdown tables: each cell lands on its own line. For a reply that is mostly a table, Export to Sheets from Gemini's own menu does a better job.
• One conversation per click. For everything at once, use Takeout.
• Generated images. Images in a reply are kept as image links. With image download turned on in the settings, Markforge tries to save them next to the Markdown file.
• Chrome only. No Firefox or Safari version today.

Related exports

The same shortcut exports Claude, ChatGPT and Grok conversations with the same file layout. If the destination is a vault, read how to save AI conversations to Obsidian.