Feature Request: Enhance Chat Organization Beyond Projects – Add Bulk Delete, Multi-Select, Tags/Folders for Professional Workflows

sikireve02 · February 9, 2026, 1:06am

This is an updated repost of my previous locked topic in the ChatGPT category (“Missing folders and bulk delete makes ChatGPT unusable for real workflows”).

Incorporating recent Projects feature while highlighting remaining gaps for professional use.

Current chat management in ChatGPT remains insufficient for scalable, real-world professional workflows, even after the introduction of Projects.

While Projects provide a valuable way to group related chats, files, and instructions (acting as dedicated folders with custom memory), several core limitations persist that make heavy, sustained usage impractical for paid users:

- No true multi-select or bulk delete across the sidebar or within/across Projects (deleting dozens/hundreds of threads remains manual and extremely time-consuming).

- Very limited pin slots, forcing constant manual reorganization.

- Lack of additional tags, sub-folders, or hierarchical archiving options beyond basic Project grouping.

ChatGPT’s design actively encourages generating many short-lived threads (e.g., via temporary chats, quick queries, or iterative workflows), yet without robust organization tools, this quickly leads to sidebar clutter and lost productivity.

For paid users (Plus/Pro/Team) relying on ChatGPT daily for work, research, client projects, or long-term tasks, manually scrolling/managing dozens or hundreds of threads is not sustainable. It wastes significant time, increases error risk (e.g., referencing outdated chats), and discourages deep, ongoing use of the tool.

This is no longer a “nice-to-have” feature — it is a blocking issue for scaling beyond casual or occasional usage.

At minimum, please prioritize implementing one or more of the following (in rough order of impact for heavy users):

1. Multi-select with bulk delete/archive/move (across sidebar, Projects, or archived chats) – this alone would dramatically reduce management overhead.

2. Expanded tags/labels or advanced folders/sub-folders to complement Projects (e.g., cross-Project tagging or global filters).

3. Increased pin limits or hierarchical archiving to surface important threads without clutter.

These additions would make ChatGPT truly viable as a professional productivity tool, rather than one that forces constant cleanup.

Thank you for considering this – many paid users share this frustration, and addressing it would significantly boost long-term adoption and satisfaction.

OpenAI_Support · February 12, 2026, 4:14am

Hey @sikireve02, totally get how useful that would be!

Thanks for sharing this. A few others have raised similar ideas, and it’s helpful to see where this would make a real difference. I don’t have a timeline to share, but feedback like this is useful signal for where things could improve.

sikireve02 · February 12, 2026, 5:08am

Thanks for the reply.

Glad to hear similar feedback exists.

I’ll keep documenting concrete workflow blockers.

FreddieDR · February 18, 2026, 9:44am

This is exactly my problem too. Projects has been a good step but to be brutally honest in its current form it still feels so basic it is really unusable once you have a lot of chats - for my line of work this is a major problem

The main issue is that everything is still one-by-one. If you have dozens or hundreds of threads like I do tidying up or reorganising is just about impossible, so Projects end up being a dumping ground especially as I have content that is now a year old

For me the biggest gaps are:

No proper multi-select anywhere meaningful and proper folder capability
No bulk actions like archive, delete, move between Projects
No way to tag or label chats so I can focus across Projects
Limited ability to close down a Project cleanly e.g archiving it and bulk-archiving its contents. This results in such as slow down when loading the UI in a browser that it is regular source of frustration

sikireve02 · February 18, 2026, 5:04pm

Thank you for sharing this — I strongly relate to the point about accumulated threads eventually becoming a dumping ground over time.

From a professional workflow perspective, the core issue is not only the inability to organize chats efficiently, but the fact that past discussions cannot be reliably treated as verifiable decision logs.

For long-term or team-based usage, it becomes critical to be able to answer questions such as:

- When was a given decision made?

- Who was involved in that decision?

- What was the status of that statement at the time (e.g. proposal, approved, deprecated)?

Currently, chat histories record discussions, but not the state of decisions. As a result, even if the information exists somewhere in past threads, there is no structured way to confirm whether a given output was merely discussed or actually adopted as an operational decision.

To address this, it would be beneficial if chat messages or outputs could be associated with:

- Explicit timestamps (to ensure chronological traceability)

- Actor identification (especially in Team environments)

- Status markers (e.g. Proposed / Approved / Deprecated)

In addition, the ability to perform cross-thread searches based on these metadata fields — such as filtering by date, actor, or status — would significantly improve the ability to retrospectively validate decision-making processes.

Without this, accumulated chat histories function as informal discussion archives rather than auditable records of adopted decisions.

Introducing metadata-linked searchability alongside message-level status tracking could allow ChatGPT conversations to serve not only as dialogue logs, but as verifiable decision histories within professional workflows.