Relocalize into existing chat
OpenAI Developer Community
May 8, 2026
Today ChatGPT allows “Move to new chat”, but not moving a message/thread into an existing specialized chat.
This becomes a major UX issue for long-running technical/project workflows where users maintain dedicated chats (Odoo, infra, governance, APIs, etc.). Users frequently ask a question in the wrong chat by mistake.
Proposed feature:
In the message ⋯ menu:
* Move to new chat
* Relocalize into existing chat
Then:
* choose target chat
* optionally move only the message or the full branch/replies
* preserve context/history links
Benefits:
* cleaner project organization
* better long-term AI context quality
* less copy/paste duplication
* better power-user workflows
* improved memory coherence for large technical projects
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