# Feature Request: Mark important passages and connect related thoughts in long chats

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/feature-request-mark-important-passages-and-connect-related-thoughts-in-long-chats/1393167>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Tags:** chatgpt, projects, feature-request, memory, productivity\
**Created:** [August 28, 2026, 6:10am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/feature-request-mark-important-passages-and-connect-related-thoughts-in-long-chats/1393167 "2026-08-28T06:10:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![sven\_roth99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sven\_roth99](https://community.openai.com/u/sven_roth99)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2026, 6:10am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/feature-request-mark-important-passages-and-connect-related-thoughts-in-long-chats/1393167/1 "2026-08-28T06:10:12Z")

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ChatGPT Projects are useful for organizing chats, files, and instructions, but they mainly organize **containers**.

What is still missing is a way to organize the **thoughts inside a conversation**.

In long-running chats, users should be able to mark individual messages or passages as:

- important
- related to another passage
- an open question
- something to revisit later

Optional tags or short notes would make this even more useful.

Later, a user could ask things like:

> “Refer back to the passages I marked as important about trust and verification.”

or:

> “Show me all open thoughts related to this project.”

This would be especially valuable for long-term projects, research, technical planning, collections, or conversations that develop over months or years.

Right now, I sometimes use **dates and timestamps as a manual workaround** so I can refer back to a specific point in a long conversation. A built-in bookmark or anchor system would make this much easier and more reliable.

The key idea is:

**Projects organize containers. Markers would organize thoughts.**

For long-term use of ChatGPT, I think this could be much more than a convenience feature. It could help preserve relationships between ideas that may only become important months or even years later.

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**Author:** ![OpenAI\_Support](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/openai_support/32/561845_2.png) [@OpenAI\_Support](https://community.openai.com/u/OpenAI_Support)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2026, 2:49am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/feature-request-mark-important-passages-and-connect-related-thoughts-in-long-chats/1393167/2 "2026-09-08T02:49:26Z")

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Thanks for the detailed idea. Saving a response to a Project can help reuse it: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10169521. The passage markers, linked thoughts and open-question view you describe go further. We’ll pass that feedback along; no timeline to share.

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**Author:** ![Prashant\_Pardesi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Prashant\_Pardesi](https://community.openai.com/u/Prashant_Pardesi)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2026, 2:50am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/feature-request-mark-important-passages-and-connect-related-thoughts-in-long-chats/1393167/3 "2026-09-08T02:50:22Z")

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