Nested Projects and Folder Organization in ChatGPT

Hello OpenAI Team,

First of all, thank you for creating the Projects feature. It has made organizing conversations much easier, especially for long-term learning and development.

I would like to suggest adding nested projects (subprojects) or folders within projects.

Currently, when a project grows to dozens of conversations, it becomes difficult to keep everything organized. This is especially true for users who use ChatGPT for ongoing learning, research, or software development.

For example, I have a project dedicated to learning Japanese. Ideally, I would like to organize it like this:

:file_folder: Japanese
β”œβ”€β”€ :open_file_folder: Writing Systems
β”‚ β”œβ”€β”€ Hiragana
β”‚ β”œβ”€β”€ Katakana
β”‚ └── Kanji
β”œβ”€β”€ :open_file_folder: Grammar
β”œβ”€β”€ :open_file_folder: Vocabulary
β”œβ”€β”€ :open_file_folder: Conversation Practice
β”œβ”€β”€ :open_file_folder: Culture
└── :open_file_folder: Study Notebooks
β”œβ”€β”€ Hiragana Notebook
β”œβ”€β”€ Katakana Notebook
└── Kanji Notebook

This would make large projects much easier to navigate and maintain.

Some related features that would also be valuable include:

  • Nested folders (folders inside folders).
  • Drag-and-drop conversations between folders.
  • The ability to pin important conversations within a project.
  • Tags, allowing a conversation to belong to multiple categories (for example, both β€œKanji” and β€œNotebook”).
  • Collapse/expand folders to keep the interface clean.

I believe this would significantly improve the experience for users who rely on ChatGPT for long-term projects, education, research, writing, and software engineering.

Thank you for considering this suggestion, and thank you for your continued work on improving ChatGPT.

Thanks for sharing this suggestion.

I can see how nested projects or folders within Projects would make larger, long-term work much easier to organize, especially when a project has many conversations.

The ideas around subfolders, pinned conversations, tags, drag-and-drop organization, and collapsible folders are clear and useful.

I’ll pass this feedback along to the team for consideration.

~ Smith