Feature Request: Collapsible Prompts and Answers for Enhanced Chat Readability

ChatGPT Feature requests
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Dear OpenAI Team,

I am a frequent user of ChatGPT and I greatly appreciate the advancements and the utility it provides in generating human-like text based on the prompts given. However, I often find myself engaging in a back-and-forth with ChatGPT, asking clarifying questions to ensure I fully understand the generated responses. Over time, this can make the chat history quite lengthy and somewhat difficult to navigate.

I am proposing a feature that allows users to collapse individual prompts and responses or entire threads of clarifying questions and answers. This feature could help in focusing on the main points of the discussion, making it easier to review and digest the information provided by ChatGPT. It would also contribute to a cleaner, more organized, and user-friendly interface, enhancing the overall user experience.

Here’s how I envision it:

  1. Collapsible Threads: Implement a button or icon next to each primary prompt. When clicked, this button would collapse or expand all the subsequent clarifying questions and answers related to that primary prompt.
  2. Individual Collapse/Expand: Allow users to collapse or expand individual prompts and responses by clicking on them, providing more granular control over what parts of the chat are visible.

I believe these enhancements would significantly improve the readability and manageability of chats, especially during longer interactions. They would also provide users with more control over the chat interface, making it easier to focus on key information.

Thank you for considering my request. I am looking forward to any potential updates regarding this feature and am happy to provide further feedback or clarification if needed.

Warm regards,
-Leif

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Yes! A thousand times, yes. This would be so useful. A big +1 here.

I requested this elsewhere myself as an addition to another user’s feature request for up/down navigation through chats (with arrows or keyboard shortcuts). That request is here: communityopenaicom/t/navigation-button-for-previous-responses-disappears-after-regeneration-request-gpt4/694819/2?u=afinetooth.

As I said there about any potential EXPAND / COLLAPSE functionality, Gmail is an excellent UI reference for this: the way their toggle element will fully expand one email thread, or fully condense it into one line per message.

IMHO, PROMPTS and RESPONSES are pretty good analogues of threaded email messages, though, since PROMPTS and RESPONSES are one-to-one / one-after-one, the collapsed state would be even cleaner that an email thread which has no 1-to-1 nature, especially with a slight color differentiation between PROMPT vs. RESPONSE.

Yeah, a single line for each collapsed PROMPT and RESPONSE would be perfect. And keyboard navigation between those, in their expanded or collapsed state, would be the icing on top for me.

Thanks OP for sharing your feature request!