I would like to suggest a feature that allows users to merge two or more ChatGPT conversations into one consolidated chat.
Many serious users work across long, complex conversations involving legal analysis, academic writing, research, drafting, argument development, source evaluation, and iterative revisions. At the moment, separate chats remain structurally isolated. This creates fragmentation: relevant arguments, user preferences, factual context, drafts, corrections, and decisions are spread across multiple threads.
A useful feature would allow the user to select several chats and either:
merge them into a single continuous conversation, or
create a new consolidated chat containing an automatically generated structured synthesis of the selected chats.
Ideally, the merge should preserve:
the original chronological communication,
key arguments and counterarguments,
uploaded files and references,
final versions of texts or outputs,
user instructions and decisions,
unresolved questions,
and a machine-readable summary for future continuation.
This would be especially valuable for professional users, researchers, lawyers, academics, writers, and anyone using ChatGPT for long-form reasoning rather than short isolated prompts.
A safer implementation could include a preview step: before merging, ChatGPT would generate a proposed “consolidated context summary”, and the user could edit or approve it. The original chats should remain unchanged unless the user explicitly chooses otherwise.
This feature would significantly improve continuity, reduce context loss, and make ChatGPT more useful as a serious long-term research and drafting environment.
Hey @vgotov! This would be really useful for longer-running work. I can’t share a timeline, but I’ll pass it along internally.
The closest workaround today is Projects. It gives you one place to keep related chats, files, and instructions together, which makes longer-running work easier to manage. You can also continue an existing chat to explore a new angle without losing the original conversation.
This is exactly the workflow I need. I regularly have long-running conversations that branch into different subjects, and I currently have to copy sections manually into other chats or Projects. I’d especially like the ability to select a portion of a conversation and either copy it into an existing chat as context, move it into another chat, or create a new chat from that selection while leaving the original intact. A true merge function for related conversations would also be extremely useful.
I came across this feature request and noticed your response back in April that it would be passed along internally.
It’s now been over five months, so I was wondering whether there’s been any progress or further consideration of this feature.
I strongly support the original suggestion, particularly the ability to consolidate multiple conversations into one ongoing discussion without losing important information or context.
I think there’s also an important organisational aspect worth considering.
When users merge several conversations, ideally only the new consolidated conversation should appear in the main chat list. The original conversations could be preserved but hidden from the main list, with an option to view or restore them if needed.
Otherwise, merging chats could actually create more clutter rather than solving the problem.
For example, five separate conversations about the same subject could become one organised conversation that retains access to all five original discussions.
This would be particularly useful for people who accidentally start new conversations about subjects they’ve already discussed.
A possible future improvement would be for ChatGPT to recognise related conversations and suggest merging them, while leaving the decision entirely to the user.
Is there any update on whether this feature is being considered by the ChatGPT product team?