After using ChatGPT for more than two years to help me with my coding, I still struggle with organizing my conversations. While the addition of projects — a fancy name for folders — has helped a little, the built-in chat organization remains abysmal, and it’s clear that improving the user experience isn’t a priority for OpenAI. My history is a mix of work-in-progress ideas, abandoned concepts, things I need to turn into tutorials, and completed projects. Without a clear structure, finding specific ideas later is a hassle. So, I needed a way to categorize my chats visually and make retrieval easier. What better way to do that than by asking ChatGPT itself?
If OpenAI truly wants to succeed as a for-profit company, it needs to recognize that focusing solely on model improvements while neglecting UX frustrates users. Worse yet, the fact that it wouldn’t take long to fix highlights that OpenAI prioritizes model development over usability, making the user experience a constant frustration. This also explains why so many chat app alternatives keep popping up, offering cleaner UIs while still relying on OpenAI’s API. That said, using ChatGPT directly still has its advantages — paying a flat fee instead of worrying about API costs makes it more predictable for heavy users.
My primary goal is to use ChatGPT as a workspace for my content creation — not just as a tool for generating responses, but as a place where I refine and structure my ideas before taking them to their final forms. However, without a solid system in place, I find myself:
- Struggling to remember which ideas I have completed versus ones still in progress
- Wasting time digging through old chats to find unfinished work
- Forgetting which topics I have marked for tutorials or further expansion
- Losing track of abandoned ideas that I might still want to revisit
I’m also really bad at renaming chats, and even more frustratingly, starting a chat in a project folder limits what models and features I can use. All I really need is a simple labeling or tagging system. However, I don’t want something overly complex or time-consuming — I need something fast…