User-selected Previous Chat References

ChatGPT Feature requests
1

I often work with ChatGPT on projects that span weeks or months.

Today I have two options:

  • keep everything in one huge conversation (which can eventually become slow on mobile devices),
  • or start a new conversation and lose all previously established context.

I’d like to propose a third option.

When starting a new chat, allow the user to explicitly attach one or more previous conversations as additional context.

Example:

New conversation

Referenced chats:

:check_box_with_check: ABC and XYZ

:check_box_with_check: Songwriting

Only those explicitly selected chats would be used.

This is not a request for automatic cross-chat memory.

The user remains completely in control of which previous conversations are available.

Benefits:

  • shorter and faster conversations
  • no need to repeat months of background
  • better support for long-term projects
  • avoids extremely long chats
  • preserves user privacy because references are always explicit

Without this feature, many users end up keeping everything in one enormous conversation simply to preserve context.

2

Thanks for laying this out so clearly, @CodeQueen.

You’re requesting an option to explicitly attach selected past chats as context when starting a new conversation. That would help long-term projects continue without relying on one huge thread or automatic cross-chat memory.

We’ll send this to the team for logging as a feature request.

-Mark G.