Hi Sunny,
Thanks for asking for more detail.
What I’m mainly trying to make easier is turning Projects into a real workspace for an ongoing topic, especially when that topic started before I created the Project. Some projects do not begin neatly. They emerge across a lot of separate conversations over time.
In my case, I have a long-running set of conversations around immigration, career change, Germany/Austria, language learning, visa-friendly career paths, finances, and timelines. I’ve also had related conversations around personal planning, wellbeing, motivation, and life transitions that directly affect how I think about those bigger decisions. Those conversations are connected, but they are scattered across older chats.
What I’m doing today is manually searching old chats, opening them one by one, trying to remember which ones matter, and then either moving them if possible, copying pieces over, or asking ChatGPT to help me reconstruct the thread from memory. The clunky part is that the relevant context already exists, but I have to hunt for it manually. It is easy to miss important chats, and it makes Projects feel less useful for topics that developed organically over time.
What I would love is an optional flow inside a Project where ChatGPT can say something like: “I found some past chats that may be relevant to this Project. Would you like to review them?” Then I could choose which ones to add, ignore, summarize, or leave out. The key for me is user control. I would not want old chats added automatically. I would want suggestions with the option to approve, decline, or defer.
I also think it would be helpful to have more than just “Add” or “Dismiss.” A “Maybe / Review Later” option would be useful. Sometimes a suggested past chat may be related, but I may not know yet whether it belongs in the Project. A “Maybe” option would let me temporarily set it aside without rejecting it. Then the Project could have a small “Suggested chats to review” area where I could come back later, compare them, and decide whether to add, summarize, or dismiss them.
Possible actions could be:
Add to Project
Summarize into Project
Maybe / Review Later
Dismiss
Don’t suggest this again for this Project
If this worked well, the Project would become a much better source of truth. I could gather the relevant history, preserve decisions and assumptions, avoid repeating myself, and let ChatGPT understand the full arc of the work without me manually rebuilding it every time.
This would be useful for long-running personal projects, career planning, relocation planning, health/wellbeing planning, education goals, financial planning, creative projects, and probably team projects too. For teams, I imagine it could help turn scattered prior conversations into a more coherent project workspace without dumping in irrelevant context.
The main thing I would emphasize is that it should be optional and user-controlled. The value is not in automatically pulling everything in. The value is in helping users find relevant past context, review it, and decide what belongs in the Project.
Thanks for considering it.
Sincerely yours,
Daniel aka CagedHunger
PS: I also think this could be especially useful for group or team Projects. In a group setting, relevant context often lives in scattered conversations between different people, earlier planning chats, research threads, brainstorming sessions, and decision-making discussions. A feature like this could help teams surface prior context, review what is relevant, and bring it into a shared Project without forcing everyone to manually copy/paste or remember where a decision happened.
For teams, I could imagine options like “suggest related chats from my history,” “suggest related chats shared with this Project,” or “summarize relevant prior context before adding.” That would make Projects more useful as collaborative workspaces while still respecting privacy and user control. Not every past chat should be visible to a group, but it would be powerful if users could intentionally select and contribute relevant context.
Thanks for considering it.