I would like to suggest a relatively small UI improvement that would make ChatGPT much easier to use for people who maintain many ongoing conversations.
When I click on an older conversation in the left sidebar, I would like that conversation to remain clearly highlighted/selected in the sidebar while I am working in it.
The problem
I often have multiple ongoing conversations, sometimes covering projects that continue over weeks or months. If I leave my computer and come back later, it is not always immediately obvious which conversation I was working on.
I currently have to look through the conversations and sometimes start reading the content to figure out where I left off.
Suggested solution
When a conversation is opened:
- Highlight it clearly in the left sidebar.
- Keep the highlight visible while that conversation is active.
- When I open another conversation, move the highlight to the newly selected conversation.
- Preserve the selected/highlighted state even when the sidebar is scrolled.
This seems like a small change, but it would provide an immediate visual indication of “this is the conversation I’m currently working on.”
For users with many long-running conversations, I believe this would be a meaningful usability improvement.
Thank you for considering it.