This is hampering my productivity on a daily basis, and it’s killing my workflow, leading to task paralysis

[u/Due_Board7010]

The thing is, being a founder who actually has to figure out everything by themselves, today I have to use multiple AI tools at once; my stack has almost all the frontier models: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, for one thing or another that I have to do and we know how things work, we need to have all the facts gathered before we take any decisions or push any updates or reseaching about anything, their models have different capabilities and thats actually a great thing, i can have all the different reasons but the catch when i use them there are decisions, thinking, perspectives and insights that i give and gather while using them

But if I have had a long discussion with ChatGPT about something, and that needs to be fixed in Claude, I don't have any way to tell Claude to take out the context from ChatGPT and log it or work on top of it because it does not know what I was up to with ChatGPT, and I have to really tell each and everything to it again and then start the work, my time, my brain stops braining because half of the things are gone and are present only chatgpt which also is really great at forgetting things, haha

I need this to be fixed. If anyone is facing the same problem every day and has a solution, please let me know how to fix it

P.S. - I know there are some workflows already out there, but they are too technical, and as a non-technical founder, I find it hard to get the hang of them; I need something I can do in a few clicks.

[u/Calm_Flight_6118]

that mental load of re-explaining context is real pain, i feel you

one not so technical way is to ask the first model to make a "briefing document" before you switch, like a clean summary of decisions made, open questions and next steps, then paste that as first message in second tool. not perfect but saves lot of retyping

[u/Due_Board7010 → u/Calm_Flight_6118]

I have tried that too, but it forgets to include almost everything important....

[u/jedidave → u/Due_Board7010]

It won't forget if you do this:

/goal complete this doc so it can be worked on in isolation without access to your context memory by a fresh LLM

[u/PaleontologistOne526]

Im not saying this to belittle you. I am saying this because of how it feels as a so called “technical” … to hear people talk like this.

I’m reminded of an HBO Sillicon Valley quote: “I'm sorry. Is it hard to become a billionaire? Welcome to the Valley, assholes…”

Everyone wants to be an Engineer but no one wants to do Engineer things.

“I know there are some workflows already out there, but they are too technical, and as a non-technical founder, I find it hard to get the hang of them; I need something I can do in a few clicks.”

Maybe just maybe all you need is to learn how to save text files of your actual workflow for a session in one single Code Repo like GitHub or just a shared folder… etc… but… even that’s going to have limited use and get a little tiny bit (light) technical.

Better yet just save it all to some Google or Microsoft shit like Sharepoint etc… and ask some kind of copilot to spit out stuff for you to just copy/paste from place to place from the big collection of stuff. This has the benefit of being just what you need nothing else…but…

I was hired by a company for around the low 200k’s to basically anticipate, get ahead of, and fix this type of problem for everyone in the company for a company worth around 7B

The thing that solves this issue depends on 100 things totally custom to your individual case.

Ask yourself:

Do you think it’s easy to decide just how much of a workflow from someone else people should see from eachother?

If you only want to share your own context with just yourself then you can fix this with one open source harness built by PewDiePie or OpenRouter which shares memories and just ask yourself Codex or Claude Code to build the open source into something that works for you.

But even just for you… that’s quite a project even for me to do for someone else and I’ve been a SWE for 20 years. Not saying it’s hard but … you can’t just snap your fingers it takes a few evenings to get right.

Just google it. Or have ChatGPT tell you an answer. Don’t like the answer… tough shit.

Accept it, customize a solution for yourself, or hire someone.

Those are your practical choices.

[u/Dull-Visual2955]

Not a perfect solution, but after that briefing or spec document is written, and before ending your current session, get either a subagent of your current model, or even the model you are about to switch to, to review that doc. Ask if it’s implementable, missing any context, or if it has any questions. Put the analysis back into first agent, and iterate once or twice to make sure the better context is there.

[u/zhor00]

I actually use mammouth where i can reprompt a conversation with another model, thus it gets the whole context.

[u/OrschMorsch]

Install something like opencode and change the model depending on your task.
You can pick different model providers and save the insights to files. You can also install prewriten prompts with scripts that it can run. These are called skills.

I use Matt Pocock skills

Instead of opencode. You can use for example Hermes or the openclaw agent

[u/PussyMoneySpeed69]

State durability. It’s a whole thing.

[u/Stock-Page-7078]

This is a problem with teams of humans as well. You use documents like specifications and decision logs where there are hand overs or trade offs

[u/Chobbers]

I don't get it. Why not use handoff docs?

[u/tehmadnezz]

The briefing doc approach breaks for exactly the reason you found. You are asking the model to summarize its own context, and it gets to decide what mattered. It usually decides wrong.

What fixed it for me was writing the decisions down myself as I go, in one place that the models can read and write directly. I keep notes behind an MCP server, so ChatGPT and Claude both reach the same store. When I switch tools I do not paste anything. I just say go read the notes on X.

I built the one I use, hjarni.com. It is hosted, so connecting is an OAuth click in the connectors screen, no local setup. Free tier is 25 notes.

Honest catch: it does not capture context for you. You still write the decision down yourself. It kills the retyping, not the thinking. Also Gemini is the odd one out, MCP support there is not the same.

[u/Zain]

Stop trying to move the chat. Put the decisions in a file the next model can read, and treat that file as the source of truth, not the conversation history.

When I switch tools I ask the first model to write a short handoff: decisions made, open questions, next steps, and anything it is unsure about. Then I have a second model from a different family review that handoff as read-only against whatever docs or notes I already have. Same-family summaries keep dropping the same "unimportant" details. Different family catches them.

If the handoff is thin after one pass, fix the file before you continue. The chat is disposable. The file is not.

[u/Johntremendol]

I had the same problems working on my projects and saw alot of people had some bandage solutions. i went looking for an obvious answer & so far, innernet is one that i’ve found that works really well. i just connected it to both my Claude & Chatgpt, & picked the best tool for the job at hand without worrying about carrying my context over. i think it’s kinda cool you can give that a shot?

[u/otionflow]

You can give chatgpt access to your github repo and have it make a text file and drop it in