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Feature Request: Enhance Chat Organization Beyond Projects – Add Bulk Delete, Multi-Select, Tags/Folders for Professional Workflows

OpenAI Developer Community February 18, 2026
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Thank you for sharing this — I strongly relate to the point about accumulated threads eventually becoming a dumping ground over time. From a professional workflow perspective, the core issue is not only the inability to organize chats efficiently, but the fact that past discussions cannot be reliably treated as verifiable decision logs. For long-term or team-based usage, it becomes critical to be able to answer questions such as: - When was a given decision made? - Who was involved in that decision? - What was the status of that statement at the time (e.g. proposal, approved, deprecated)? Currently, chat histories record discussions, but not the state of decisions. As a result, even if the information exists somewhere in past threads, there is no structured way to confirm whether a given output was merely discussed or actually adopted as an operational decision. To address this, it would be beneficial if chat messages or outputs could be associated with: - Explicit timestamps (to ensure chronological traceability) - Actor identification (especially in Team environments) - Status markers (e.g. Proposed / Approved / Deprecated) In addition, the ability to perform cross-thread searches based on these metadata fields — such as filtering by date, actor, or status — would significantly improve the ability to retrospectively validate decision-making processes. Without this, accumulated chat histories function as informal discussion archives rather than auditable records of adopted decisions. Introducing metadata-linked searchability alongside message-level status tracking could allow ChatGPT conversations to serve not only as dialogue logs, but as verifiable decision histories within professional workflows.

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