Several months ago I had several chat instances in Chat GPT on a similar topic (refactoring an old Node.js application)
Now I have come back to the task of refactoring the application and I am not able to see which chat had the most recent discussion
I have renamed the related chats (which changes the order they are displayed in the chat history menu) with a suffix of something like ‘APP_REFACTOR’ so that I can see which chats are related (pity there is no chat categorising or tagging mechanism), but I still can’t see which chat is more recent because there are no timestamps on the messages.
This is why I am adding the feature request that timestamps be added to the messages displayed in ChatGPT.
Thank You.
PS I asked a GPT-4 instance if timestamps were saved in the chat messages themselves and apparently they are, they are just not displayed in the Chat GPT interface.
・Clarification of context:
Clarifies at what point in time a statement is made, making it easier to understand the flow and context of the conversation, especially in longer conversations.
・Organization of information:
When users look back on past conversations, timestamps make it easier to organize information and track what was said and when.
・History Management:
When browsing chat history, users can easily locate conversations that took place at specific times, allowing them to find information efficiently.
・Project Management:
In task progress and project discussions, timestamps make it easier to keep track of the timing of each step or decision.
Agree! It’s very neccesary to add a timestamp mark beside every meesage. Also a last timestamp on every chat in the main list. And , as said, renaming a conversation is not a real change to move it to the top of the list.
I do a lot of long conversational chats which may have a tangential change of follow before returning to the main chat. I would like to be able track when that occurred.
I also.can have a chat that flows over days and having a combination of time and date would be great.
Not sure this possible but even a call out to the current chat session device to source time and date would be great
Now I am probably showing my ignorance as I’m an old techie guy and used to make api calls for such functionality.
I agree with a lot of posters on this feature suggestion, and have a new use case to consider:
I wanted to be able to see timestamps on my message history so I could show others how I got a task done faster using ChatGPT than it would have probably taken otherwise.
I worked on a Bash script with ChatGPT recently. It took about four or five iterations of testing and fixing the script to get it to where I wanted.
In hindsight, if I had done my normal Bash scripting approach (a lot of Googling and going through command documentation or forum posts,–because my memory of specific Bash syntax is fading–and trying different things to see if they work, lots of trial/error on my way to the finished script), my guess is that it would have been a 40 to 60 minute task, and when working with ChatGPT, I’m pretty sure it was faster than 40 min (somewhere between 15 and 30 min), but I’d like to be able look at timestamps and see for sure.
I saw other messages on this feature suggestion that said that the data is there, but is not surfaced in the UI, so I asked, in that same conversation, if it could tell me the time difference between the start of the conversation and a particular message (“it worked! thanks!”) I posted when the finished version of the script passed my testing. It couldn’t, and suggested that I make a feature suggestion.
