Guides
Longer answers to the questions that come up before or after using one of these tools.
All 10 guides
What goes in a funeral programme, and how to print it
What each page of an order of service usually contains, how a folded sheet has to be laid out to print correctly, and how many copies families tend to need.
What goes in a court bundle, and in what order
The usual contents of a bundle, how it is ordered, and how indexing and continuous pagination work, plus the formatting mistakes that get one sent back.
Save your Instagram DMs before you delete your account
Request the export first, because the link can take up to 30 days and the tool disappears once the profile is gone. Steps, timings and what is in the zip.
How to recover deleted WhatsApp messages, honestly
Restoring a backup is the only real route, it rolls the whole chat back to the backup date, and without an older backup there is usually nothing.
How to print WhatsApp messages for a court case
Export the chat rather than screenshotting it, keep the original file untouched, and produce a continuous dated transcript. What that document usually contains.
How to export a WhatsApp chat on iPhone and Android
The exact steps on both phones, what Without Media really drops, the truth about the 40,000 message limit, and what to do when the export is too big to send.
How to export your Telegram chat history
Telegram exports only from the desktop app, in JSON or HTML, and can make you wait 24 hours on a new session. The steps and what catches people out.
How to get your messages out before you lose access
When an app is closing, a job is ending or an account is going, exports take days to arrive. What to request first and how long each one takes.
How to export text messages from your phone
Android exports SMS and MMS to a file with a free app. iPhone has no export at all, so here are the four routes that work and what each one costs you.
How to export Slack messages when you are not an admin
Slack has no personal export for members. What you can actually do before you lose access, what each plan keeps, and what to ask an owner for.