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What happens to what you bring

Where your history goes, how Cranes reads it, and when your first chapters appear.

Everything you bring in is kept exactly as it came, as entries in your own thinking. Then Cranes reads it and drafts chapters from it. You don’t have to approve or sort anything.

Kept as entries first

An import is split into separate entries: one per snapshot from another AI, one per file, one per Notion page or database row, with long ones split at paragraph breaks. They go into your own thinking in the workspace you’re in, and only you can read them.

Then read, a piece at a time

Cranes reads the entries one after another, so each reading builds on what the last one drafted. While it reads, your front page shows how many entries it has read, roughly how long is left, and a quote from the passage it’s reading right now. Chapters appear as they’re written.

You can close the tab. Reading continues without you, and a refresh picks up where it left off.

Not every entry is read closely at first

A large import can hold hundreds of entries. Cranes reads up to forty from each import closely, spread evenly across it, and keeps the rest where later readings can find them. Nothing is thrown away, and your later threads and notes bring the rest into play.

The email when it’s done

When the first chapters from your history are ready, we send one email: Your first chapters are ready. It lists how many chapters your thinking has and their titles, and covers how to connect Cranes to other AI apps. Emails never include what a chapter says, only its title.

If bringing it in fails

You’ll see Try again. After a paste or files, it picks up from what you already brought. If a Notion import fails, you’ll see “Couldn’t finish reading this,” and Try again takes you back to choose a source, so bring the pages in again.

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