Feature Name (suggested): ChatGPT Highlights — Searchable Public User Knowledge
Summary:
I’d love to see a feature in ChatGPT that allows users to “highlight” specific chat messages, answers, or images—both for personal recall and optionally for public sharing. These “highlights” could become part of a community-curated, searchable archive of useful, niche, or clever insights that other users can browse, search, and even rank.
Problem This Solves:
- Users often ask very specific, niche questions (e.g., obscure Blender issues, rare synth bugs, unusual workflows) that are hard to Google and get buried in long chats.
- Currently, there’s no system of recall for these gems unless we scroll or search awkwardly through our history.
- Many users repeatedly ask the same questions across sessions, which is inefficient for both users and model usage.
Proposed Solution:
- Add a “Highlight” option next to messages/images.
- Let users choose to save it privately (in a “My Highlights” sidebar tab) or make it public.
- Public highlights can be tagged and indexed for browsing and search.
- Community features like upvotes or “save for later” help surface the best entries.
- Allow image generation highlights as well—some generations are worth archiving for creative reuse.
Benefits for Users:
- Speeds up access to past discoveries without rerunning the same prompt.
- Enables peer discovery of rare info (think StackOverflow for obscure, non-code queries).
- Creates a sense of knowledge sharing and community around otherwise isolated chats.
Benefits for OpenAI:
- Could reduce compute costs by reducing redundant queries.
- Adds a discovery layer that improves perceived ChatGPT usefulness.
- Opens potential for long-tail content indexing and improvement.
Thanks for considering this