Feature Request: Pin ChatGPT Responses to a Side Panel

ChatGPT Feature requests
1

Short Version

Please consider adding the ability to pin any ChatGPT response into a persistent side panel while continuing the conversation.

Currently, I often open the same chat in two browser windows simply so I can keep one important response visible while asking new questions.

A “Pin to side panel” action would make long, complex ChatGPT workflows significantly easier.

Main Verison:
Problem

When working through a long or complex conversation, I often need to keep one previous ChatGPT response visible while continuing to ask questions.

For example, I may have:

  • an architecture diagram or explanation,
  • a learning roadmap,
  • a list of requirements,
  • a piece of code,
  • a research summary,
  • or a plan that I want to use as a reference.

Currently, once I continue the conversation, that response moves up in the chat history.

The practical workaround is to:

  • open the same conversation in two browser windows,
  • use browser split-screen,
  • open another monitor,
  • or constantly scroll up and down.

This breaks the workflow.

Proposed Feature

Allow users to pin an individual ChatGPT response to a persistent side panel.

Each response could have an action such as:

⋯ → Pin to side panel

Once pinned, the interface could look approximately like:

Chat conversation Pinned response
Current question Architecture / plan / code
Current answer kept permanently visible
Next question while conversation continues

The user could continue chatting normally while the pinned response remains visible.

Example Workflow

Suppose ChatGPT generates a large system architecture.

I pin that answer.

Then I ask:

Let’s analyze the database layer.

The architecture remains visible on the right.

Then:

Now redesign the event-processing part.

The original architecture is still visible.

Then:

Compare this new version with the original architecture.

Both the conversation and the reference material are immediately accessible.

Today I usually need two ChatGPT browser windows to achieve this.

Possible Extensions

The feature could eventually support multiple pinned items:

Pinned

  • System Architecture
  • Requirements
  • Database Design
  • Decision Table

Users could collapse or expand each pinned response.

It could also support:

  • drag-and-drop ordering,
  • resizing the side panel,
  • unpinning responses,
  • pinning user messages as well as assistant responses,
  • “Use pinned items as context” toggle,
  • comparing two pinned responses,
  • naming pinned responses,
  • persistent pins when reopening the conversation.
2

Hey @creduntvitam!

I can see the use case here, especially in longer conversations where one earlier response becomes the reference point for everything that follows.

Projects already let you save a response as a source for reuse later, but that does not keep the response visible while you continue chatting. A pin to side panel option would solve a different problem by letting you keep important context in view without opening another window or constantly scrolling back.

The extensions you mentioned, like multiple pinned items, naming them, or choosing whether they should also be used as context, add some useful detail to the idea as well.

I cannot promise when or whether something like this will be added, but I will pass the feedback along internally.

- Sunny