# Feature Request: Advanced Chat Management – Split Conversations, Edit Prompts, Archive Results & Control Context ث **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature requests\ **Tags:** chatgpt\ **Created:** [September 5, 2026, 11:40am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/feature-request-advanced-chat-management-split-conversations-edit-prompts-archive-results-control-context/1395044 "2026-09-05T11:40:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ceo25](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@ceo25](https://community.openai.com/u/ceo25)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 11:40am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/feature-request-advanced-chat-management-split-conversations-edit-prompts-archive-results-control-context/1395044/1 "2026-09-05T11:40:00Z")
**Subject: Feature Proposal – Advanced Chat Management, Conversation Splitting, Editing, and Knowledge Archiving** Dear OpenAI / ChatGPT Product Team, I would like to suggest a set of features that I believe would significantly improve ChatGPT for users who use it for long-term professional work, research, legal matters, business projects, and document drafting. As conversations become longer, a single chat can contain several unrelated subjects. Currently, it can become difficult to separate those subjects, remove irrelevant context, or preserve only the useful final results. I suggest introducing the following features: **1. Split Part of a Conversation into a New Chat** Users should be able to select a group of messages within an existing conversation and choose: “Move to New Chat” or “Create New Chat from Selection.” The selected section would become a separate conversation with its own title, while the original conversation would retain only the relevant subject. For example, a business conversation about an LOI may later contain a completely separate legal discussion. The user should be able to move the legal discussion into a new chat without deleting or losing the earlier business work. **2. Sections or Numbered Branches Within a Chat** Allow users to divide a long conversation into identifiable sections or branches, such as: Chat/Section 1 – Commercial Documents Chat/Section 2 – Legal Matters Chat/Section 3 – Project Development Users could later rename, separate, merge, archive, or move these sections. **3. Edit and Refine Previously Submitted Prompts** Users should be able to edit, add to, or remove part of a previously submitted question without having to rewrite the entire prompt. Ideally, ChatGPT would maintain a version history so that the original prompt and subsequent revisions remain recoverable. This would be especially useful when the user wants to clarify one condition, correct one fact, or emphasize a particular requirement while keeping the rest of a detailed prompt unchanged. **4. Convert Selected Research or Conversation Results into a Permanent File** Users should be able to select useful answers, research findings, tables, drafts, or other results and choose: “Save as Document” / “Export Selected Results.” The selected material could then be saved as a Word document, PDF, project file, or other persistent artifact with a user-defined title. **5. Archive Results and Remove the Working Discussion** After saving the useful results externally or into a project file, users should have the option to archive or remove the preliminary questions, unsuccessful drafts, research discussions, and other intermediate material from the active conversation. This would allow the final knowledge to be preserved without keeping unnecessary conversational history in the active context. **6. “Keep Final Version Only”** For drafting workflows involving many revisions, users should be able to designate one answer or document as the “Final Version.” ChatGPT could then archive earlier drafts while keeping the approved final version readily accessible. **7. User-Controlled Context Management** Users should be able to explicitly control which parts of a long conversation ChatGPT should use as context. For example: “Use Sections 1 and 3 for future responses, but exclude Section 2.” This would be particularly valuable when a conversation contains confidential, outdated, unrelated, or superseded information. **8. Clear Separation Between Chat History, Saved Knowledge, and Memory** When content is moved, archived, deleted, or converted into a permanent document, the interface should clearly allow the user to decide whether that information should: - remain in the conversation; - be stored only in a document/project; - remain available as ChatGPT memory; or - be completely excluded from future context. These capabilities would transform long ChatGPT conversations from simple chronological message histories into structured professional workspaces. They would be especially valuable for users managing multiple business projects, contracts, research projects, legal matters, document drafting, and long-running professional discussions within ChatGPT. Thank you for considering these suggestions. I believe advanced conversation management and user-controlled context could become an important part of ChatGPT’s evolution as a professional productivity and knowledge-management platform. Kind regards, Yassir Hassan Alnaeem ---
**Author:** ![ceo25](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@ceo25](https://community.openai.com/u/ceo25)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2026, 11:35am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/feature-request-advanced-chat-management-split-conversations-edit-prompts-archive-results-control-context/1395044/2 "2026-09-06T11:35:11Z")
Following my earlier feature request on **Advanced Chat Management** , I would like to add another feature that I believe becomes increasingly important as users build long-term histories with ChatGPT: **Automatic date and time tagging for chats, sections, and individual messages — combined with date-based search and direct navigation.** Currently, when a conversation becomes very long or continues over weeks or months, it can be difficult to identify exactly **when a particular discussion took place** and return to that exact point. Every conversation and message should therefore have an accessible timestamp, for example: **5 August 2026 – 2:35 PM** The timestamp does not necessarily need to clutter the normal interface. It could appear when hovering over or selecting a message, or through a timeline/history view. More importantly, these timestamps should be **searchable and navigable**. For example, I should be able to ask ChatGPT: > “Take me to the discussion we had on Tuesday, 5 August.” or: > “Find our discussion about the LOI last Thursday.” or: > “Show me what we discussed about this project between 1 and 5 September.” Instead of merely generating a summary from memory, ChatGPT should be able to **locate the original conversation and take the user directly to that exact area of the chat** , or show matching results if there is more than one. This could support: - Search by exact date and time - Search by date range - Search by relative dates such as “yesterday” or “last Tuesday” - Search using **topic + date** - Direct jump to the relevant message/section - A timeline or calendar view for long conversations - Original creation date plus last-edited date for edited prompts Timestamps should also be preserved when content is **split into a new chat, moved to a project, archived, or exported to a document**. This would maintain the history and chronology of the work. ### Why this connects to my original proposal This would make the conversation-management features I suggested previously much more powerful. The workflow could become: **Search by date/topic → Find the exact discussion → Jump directly to it → Select it → Split it into a new chat → Rename it → Continue working separately.** For users managing many projects over months or years, this would turn ChatGPT history into something much closer to a **searchable knowledge archive** , rather than simply a list of conversations. I believe **time-based retrieval and direct navigation to original conversations** could become a very useful foundation for long-term professional use of ChatGPT.