Feature request: Reliable search, copy, and export for very long ChatGPT conversations
OpenAI Developer Community
May 14, 2026
For users who use long conversations as a creative writing workspace, the current virtual rendering / partial rendering behavior is extremely disruptive.
I understand the goal of reducing lag and improving performance, but long-form writers need user-selectable options such as:
* Full-text search within a single conversation
* Reliable full conversation copy
* Export a single conversation as TXT / Markdown / DOCX
* Copy selected message ranges
* A dedicated writing or long-document workspace mode
For long fiction writing, research, coding logs, and worldbuilding, a single ChatGPT conversation often becomes a workspace, archive, and reference document. When browser search, full copy, and mid-conversation navigation become unreliable, it seriously disrupts the workflow.
Please consider adding an option for users to search, copy, or export long conversations reliably.
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