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"textContent": "There are a few workable ways to handle this today:\n\n 1. **Use a Project instead of starting over:**\nIf your goal is to keep working with the same context, the closest built-in option is to move the long chat into a Project and continue there. OpenAI says existing chats can be moved into Projects, and Projects keep project-level context and files together.\n\n 2. **Use a browser extension for cleaner per-thread export:**\nIf you want to save one conversation and carry it into a new thread more neatly, an Chrome extension like **ChatGPT Exporter: Save ChatGPT to Word, PDF, Docs, Notion** can help. It is a third-party tool, not an OpenAI feature, but it is designed specifically for exporting individual ChatGPT conversations into reusable formats.\n\n 3. **Create a handoff summary and start a fresh chat:**\nIn practice, one of the most reliable workflows is to ask ChatGPT to generate a structured summary of the current thread, including decisions, constraints, open questions, and important snippets, then paste that summary into a new chat. This is not a true export/import feature, but it usually works better than trying to continue a very large thread manually. This is an inference based on the current product behavior.\n\n\n",
"title": "How to Export ChatGPT Conversation and Continue It in a New Thread?"
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