Enable the Share button for chats inside Projects

ChatGPT Feature requests
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Hi OpenAI team,

I’d like to request a small but powerful feature that would greatly improve the workflow for users utilizing Projects in ChatGPT.

:puzzle_piece: Use Case: Internal Referencing for Knowledge Work

When working inside a Project, I often create structured threads around specific topics — for example, research, decision logs, or client documentation. These chats are logically grouped and highly valuable as internal references.

However, the “Share” button is missing from chats within Projects, making it impossible to link to them — even for myself. This creates friction when I want to reference a specific conversation in my own documentation (Notion, internal docs, knowledge bases, etc.). Right now, I have to either:

  • copy/paste manually (limited by token count),
  • download/export the chat (adds file clutter),
  • or duplicate the chat outside the project (loses context).

:light_bulb: Suggested Solution

Please allow the “Share” button to be visible inside Projects — even if only for private use (e.g. sharing with myself or generating a link I can store). This would:

  • Improve organization and traceability inside projects.
  • Enable quick internal referencing without copying/exporting.
  • Make ChatGPT more useful for advanced users and knowledge workers.

:folded_hands: Thank you

ChatGPT Projects are already a huge step forward for structured workflows — adding this small feature would make them even more powerful.

Happy to expand on this if needed!

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Regular user of ChatGPT Projects in professional workflows

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Agreed. Using project comes with trade off makes no sense

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I just upgraded to GPT for Teams from Personal so I could collaborate and also access the 5-Pro. I merged all my chats knowing i could not go back. In my research I never imagined that projects would not be able to access the different chats in the same project. This is key to all my work. How is this not a standard feature? I can see a privacy issue with other users but that would also be the point of a company project. The share button does not even allow GPT to read another chat in a thread. That would be a quick fix, but the big fix is to make projects great again. Here’s what GPT-5 wrote for me to share:

I rely heavily on Projects to organize research and ongoing work. The current limitation—where chats inside a Project remain siloed and cannot access each other’s context—is a major blocker.

For example, I have a Project dedicated to complex research (e.g., my R&D work). Each thread builds on the same sources, but because they can’t reference each other, I’m forced to either:

  • Consolidate everything into one unwieldy thread (which quickly becomes too long and difficult to navigate), or

  • Manually duplicate and restate context across multiple threads (wasteful and error-prone).

This defeats the core promise of a “Project.” Projects should serve as more than visual folders—they need to support continuity and contextual memory across all chats within them.

Feature request: Please enable shared project-level context, where each chat inside a Project can access:

  • Prior conversations in that Project (or at least a searchable, linkable history),

  • Project-wide memory, so research threads build on one another naturally,

  • Optional controls for privacy (so users can toggle whether a given chat is included in project-wide memory).

This change would make Projects truly useful for professionals who depend on ChatGPT for ongoing, structured work. Right now, without cross-thread continuity, Projects feel decorative rather than functional.