Hi. Loving the new project ‘folders’ feature. It’s great to be able to keep better track of the chats I’ve created around a topic. However,
I’ve noticed that custom GPT chats cannot be added to the project folders
Seems also strange that custom GPTs can’t be added to a project
It’s not intuitive that all chats can’t be included in a project and to me where I’m using a mix of core chatGPT and custom GPTs it’s now made my chat list really disjointed with some chats in folders and others not.
However, I have noticed that I can drag the chats back out of the folders into the timeline so there’s an undo!
Another heads up! If you drag chat sessions in there that use models higher than 4o then they will be downgraded to 4o - as models higher than 4o can’t access project files. So be careful as once you downgrade I don’t think you can go back. When I got the alert message I dragged the o1 chat back into the timeline on the left from the project and I can continue to use it with o1.
Thanks so much for this! I just created my first project and only moved a couple of chats, so I didn’t catch this before. Really appreciate the heads-up!
Actually, I am pretty disappointed with the way they implemented this. It’s much better than before, but it still does not resolve all the sidebar problems. For example, GPTs take up too much space, but at the same time I use them, so I can’t just unpin them. Also, another problem is that there is no way to differentiate chats with GPTs from regular chats, so I always need to go inside the chat to see if this is some GPTs or a regular chat with ChatGPT
I even created some kind of redesign, and I think that mine is a more complex solution, than what OpenAI did. Except of course ability to add custom instructions to Projects.
I have a suggestion that could significantly improve the way projects and folders work with GPT:
1. Cross-Chat Referencing in Projects:
When starting a new chat within a project folder, it would be incredibly helpful to have the ability to reference other chats within the same project. This would allow users to:
Pull context or specific information from previous chats without needing to manually summarize or copy-paste.
Seamlessly continue discussions or build on previous conversations, making projects more cohesive and efficient.
Treat the entire project folder as a connected knowledge space, where GPT can fetch and synthesize insights across all chats.
For example:
In a new chat, I could say, “Refer to the timeline discussion from Chat X” or “Use the details from the budget discussion in Chat Y”—and the GPT would be able to retrieve and use that information directly.
2. Custom GPT Integration in Project Chats:
It would be fantastic if Custom GPTs could be integrated directly into chats within projects and folders. This would:
Allow users to use a specific Custom GPT (tailored for their workflow) across all chats in a project, maintaining the GPT’s specialized tone, purpose, or knowledge base.
Enable Custom GPTs to function as part of the team in any project, accessing both files and relevant chats when needed.
Eliminate the need to toggle between different GPT instances or reintroduce project context each time.
How This Could Work:
A setting to assign a specific Custom GPT to a project or folder.
A system where GPT can retrieve and analyze chats on-demand across the project folder.
Commands like “Look at the last three chats in this project” or “Summarize key points from all chats in this folder.”
Why This Would Be Useful:
For Long-Term Projects: No need to waste time recalling or restating past conversations—GPT can automatically access the project’s chat history.
Enhanced Collaboration: GPT becomes an active participant in project discussions, streamlining workflows and providing more relevant, context-aware responses.
Better Customization: Custom GPTs designed for specific roles or tasks (e.g., managing labels, creating music, coding) would be even more powerful when seamlessly integrated into project workflows.
This combination of cross-chat referencing and Custom GPT integration would make the project and folder system exponentially more valuable, helping users stay organized, efficient, and productive.
I’d love to hear if others would find these features useful or if you have additional ideas to improve GPT’s project management capabilities.
Feature Suggestion: Integrating DALL-E 3 Chats into Projects
I would love to see the ability to integrate DALL-E 3 image generation chats into the Projects feature. Currently, it seems that chats involving image generation can’t be added to project folders. This limits organization for users who rely on a mix of text-based and visual brainstorming or concept development.
Here are some potential benefits of this feature:
Improved Workflow: It would allow users to consolidate all related content—text, prompts, and images—under a single project, making it easier to manage creative processes.
Enhanced Organization: Users could keep DALL-E 3 outputs alongside project discussions, enabling a more cohesive view of a project’s progress.
Streamlined Access: No need to search through archived or standalone chats to locate related DALL-E 3 content.
If implemented, this feature could make the Projects tool more versatile and appealing to users working on creative or visual-heavy projects.
I just noticed that “Search” disappeared from chats in projects. “Using Projects in ChatGPT” says that Search is a features supported in Projects conversations.
I’m really surprised this wasn’t a basic feature added to Projects. It didn’t even occur to me as I started going through building my first project that I wouldn’t be able to do this.
My first project was for family meal planning. I created new chats for different individual recipes, plus chats that held multiple recipes in one. If I started a new chat asking it to give me the one recipe I posted in a different chat in the project, it couldn’t do it. Instead it just made up a new recipe and gave it to me. The only work around I found was to tell GPT to “please remember this recipe in the memory so I can ask you about it later”, and it then commits it to the memory. However, you could do that already without the need for the Project feature.
As you said, hopefully this get’s added quickly as for me this feels like the main benefit of using it.
THIS! We should be able to add “any” chat to a project. I got so excited about this new feature and b/c I use my own custom GPT 98% of the time, I can’t even benefit from it.
