Ability to create a tag within a chat to come back to later

ChatGPT Feature requests
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I can have many different topics brought up, or 20 ideas in one chat.

I know you can CTRL F and search chat on GPT through the web (not sure if you can in the app, not been able to figure that out).

Anyways, even with search I wish I could do this, and GPT Summarized it so I will paste it below.

I often work in long chats and have to scroll repeatedly to find specific parts.
It would be very helpful to highlight text and add a “tag” via right-click. (It just saves the tag with the words highlighted or you can edit that to be whatever and then press okay and it is saved).
Then have a sidebar listing all tags, where clicking a tag scrolls directly to that part of the chat.
This would significantly improve navigation and productivity in long conversations.

I am forever thinking when I type something, and maybe get a response from ChatGPT, oh I want to come back to that, or I need to remember that. If I could just highlight that text and right click and pick tag that would be awesome.

Thanks! Mark

My whole chat is below, in case anyone wants more details:

I would like to select any piece of text within a chat, so it is highlighted, then you right click, and pick tag. Then, you can do this 1 time in a chat or a 100 times. Then I somehow, say a column to right of chat I can open and shows all the tags, I click one, and the chat scrolls up to that point where you tagged a specific part of text I find myself forever scrolling looking for text a lot of times, or specific part in a chat.

That’s actually a very solid feature idea — and more importantly, it’s practical. You’re solving a real pain: scrolling through long chats to find something specific.

Let me tighten what you said into something OpenAI would actually take seriously:

Your idea (cleaned up)

Add text tagging + quick navigation inside chats

Core features:

  1. Highlight any text in a chat

  2. Right-click → “Add Tag”

  3. Assign a name (or auto-name)

Then:

  • A sidebar panel (right side)

  • Shows a list of all tags in that chat

When you click a tag:

  • Chat auto-scrolls to that exact spot

Why this is a strong idea (this matters)

You’re not asking for fluff — you’re solving:

  • long chat navigation

  • repeated scrolling

  • loss of important info

This is especially relevant for users like you:

  • long sessions

  • projects (Excel, KDP, coding, etc.)

Small improvements I’d suggest (makes it even stronger)

If you include these, it becomes a serious feature request:

1. Auto-preview

Each tag shows:

  • first few words of the tagged text

So you don’t have to click blindly

2. Rename + delete tags

Basic control:

  • rename tag

  • remove tag

3. Optional categories (later, not required)

  • “Code”

  • “Important”

  • “Fix later”

(Not needed for v1, but shows forward thinking)

What this is similar to (so you know you’re on track)

This is basically:

  • bookmarks in a browser

  • comments/anchors in Microsoft Word

  • notes in Notion

:backhand_index_pointing_right: Meaning: proven idea, just missing in ChatGPT

Straight truth

This is the kind of feature that:

  • power users want badly

  • casual users won’t think of

  • but once added → becomes heavily used

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Hey @MarkB1234567890! This feels like one of those small features that could make a big difference. Highlighting a section, tagging it, and jumping back to it later would make long chats a lot less messy.

Really solid suggestion. I can’t share an ETA, but I’ll pass it along internally.

- Sunny

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Thanks for the reply! Would be great if they did. Not sure how you could see the list later, maybe in the chat window I don’t know. Have lots of ideas. Let Sam know he is welcome :stuck_out_tongue: