Please add a way to organize ChatGPT conversations into folders, collapsible groups, or project boards.
For power users, researchers, builders, developers, students, and long-term project users, the current sidebar becomes extremely hard to manage. Many users have dozens or hundreds of conversations across different workstreams, such as coding, hardware setup, business planning, research, personal productivity, troubleshooting, and creative projects.
Suggested functionality:
- Manual chat folders/groups
- Create folders like “Hardware,” “Coding,” “Business,” “Research,” “Personal,” etc.
- Drag chats into folders.
- Collapse and expand groups in the sidebar.
- Pin important chats inside each group.
- AI-assisted sorting
- Let ChatGPT automatically suggest categories based on chat content.
- Example: “This chat looks like it belongs in Coding > Claude Code.”
- Bulk-organize old chats into suggested folders.
- Auto-generate short labels and summaries for messy chat titles.
- Project continuity layer
- Each group could have a short AI-generated summary of the project.
- Example: “This folder contains your Brain Node / Obsidian / Qdrant setup work.”
- Users could ask: “Summarize where I am across this folder.”
- Search + filters
- Filter by folder, date, model, uploaded files, tools used, or pinned conversations.
- Search within a specific folder instead of the entire history.
- Privacy and user control
- AI suggestions should be optional.
- Users should approve bulk organization before changes are applied.
- Users should be able to undo folder moves.
Why this matters:
ChatGPT is increasingly being used not just for one-off questions, but for long-term workflows. Better chat organization would make ChatGPT feel more like a real operating system for thought, projects, research, and execution.
This would be especially valuable for users building complex multi-track projects where conversations need to remain findable and coherent over weeks or months.