I have some suggestions for the User Interface on the ChatGPT website.
First a couple of things that don’t work quite right . . .
PROBLEM 1:
When the user types in a query a Copy icon appears beneath it when you hover the cursor in the area beneath it.
However, clicking on it actually does nothing, it does not perform a copy of the text that the user has typed in, at least when running within the Microsoft Edge browser.
You can select the text and use CTRL/C to successfully do a copy, like you can do in most editors or word processors, but the Copy icon does not work.
PROBLEM 2:
A Copy icon also appears beneath the response that ChatGPT provides to any query, and that Copy icon does in fact work, . . . partially. If the ChatGPT’s response is only text, then it works fine, but if the response includes any graphics then, while it will still copy the text, it does not copy the graphics.
That means that if you’re trying to copy a ChatGPT response over into a word processor like Microsoft Word, all you get with the subsequent Paste operation is the text, not any graphics. And that means that after copying the text over you have to go back to the ChatGPT response and individually select the image, do a copy with CTRL/C, and then Paste it into the corresponding position within the already Pasted text in the Word document.
It would be really helpful if the Copy icon for ChatGPT would copy everything, text and images.
ADDITIONS TO ChatGPT:
There is also something I’d like to see ADDED to ChatGPT.
Very often when I do a query and get ChatGPT’s response I find that I need further explanation or it raises other questions in my mind which I then do a subsequent query for. And sometimes this back-and-forth between me and ChatGPT can go on for five six, . . . ten, twenty or more times, providing lots and lots of great information to me, really zeroing in the answer(s) to my queries.
Since I know that that kind of sequence often happens, it means that when I’m about to start a query with ChatGPT I also open up Microsoft Word in which I will save all the queries and responses so that I have a good record of the great information ChatGPT has provided and I can refer to that in the future as needed.
I think of these back-and-forths with ChatGPT as “Conversations”, and my Word Documents as local records of those conversations.
However, the multiple Copy-and-Paste operations I have to go through in order to do that can take a lot of work and sometime interrupts my train of thought in the Conversation.
SUGGESTION 1:
I think it would be a really nice addition to ChatGPT if there were a way to do a Copy, not just of an individual Query (that the user types in) or of ChatGPT’s response to a query, but a NEW Copy icon that would do a copy of an entire Conversation.
I envision being able to let ChatGPT know that I’m about to start a Conversation by simply typing in:
“Start Conversation”
That would be recognized by ChatGPT as the starting point of a new conversation but needn’t require a response by ChatGPT, or maybe something like
“OK, let’s start”.
The user would then follow that by his first query and the first ChatGPT response. And the back-and-forth of queries and responses could go on for any number of subsequent queries and responses.
And at every single response there would be a NEW version of the Copy Icon (in addition to the existing Copy Icon) which when clicked would do a copy of the entire Conversation, from right after the “Start Conversation” to the current point in the conversation. I’d expect that in most cases that Copy Conversation icon would be clicked by the user only when he’s done querying, but I think it should be available during the entire conversation.
The user should also be able to let ChatGPT know when a Conversation is over, perhaps simply by typing:
“End Conversation”
SUGGESTION 2:
It might be helpful if the user could give a NAME to the conversation, so he might say:
Start Conversation: Parts needed for building a model rocket
and then later when the user clicks the Copy Conversation icon ChatGPT would not simply provide the copy of the entire Conversation but it would also include the name (title) of the conversation at the very top of of the copied conversation.
SUGGESTION 3:
This might not be possible, but would be great if it were . . .
This would be the addition of a Save Conversation Icon.
When the user hits the Save Conversation icon AND the user has also given a name to the Conversation, it would be wonderful if it actually creates a file on the user’s computer such that the name of the file is the same as the name of the Conversation and does a Save of the entire Conversation into the created file.
If the user had NOT specified a name for the conversation perhaps ChatGPT could respond to the clicking of this new Save Conversation icon by bringing up a dialog in which the user could specify a file name.
This Save feature might require, somehow, perhaps via some ChatGPT settings dialog, allowing the user to specify the folder on his computer where such ChatGPT Conversation files should be stored and what KIND of files should be created, Microsoft Word, PDF, etc.
There should be some feedback to the user to let him know that the Conversation was indeed saved to his computer.
This would make it super easy for the user to save Conversations. No need to separately open a word processor program and do the explicit pasting into it. It could all happen right from ChatGPT.
I know that for me this would be super helpful. I’m an engineer and often use ChatGPT to help me out with engineering topics that often involve pretty extensive Conversation. Have a way to so easily save Conversations for future reference would be incredibly helpful and time saving.
Plus it would be a great way to distinguish ChatGPT from other Large Language Models.