Feature request: intelligent chat history management
OpenAI Developer Community
May 17, 2026
Feature request: intelligent chat history management
Long-term ChatGPT users can accumulate hundreds or thousands of chats. The current tools — rename, archive, delete, search, and projects — are not enough to manage that history at scale.
ChatGPT should be able to help users organize their own chat history intelligently, including:
* Bulk archive/delete suggestions
* AI-generated summaries for old chats
* Automatic topic clustering
* Project recommendations
* Colour labels or tag labels
* “Active / Archive / Junk” classification
* Ability to create a master archive index
* Safe review-before-delete workflow
* Search by remembered topic, not just exact title/text
* Migration tools for moving related chats into Projects
Example user request:
“Clean up my history. Keep active projects visible, archive old useful chats, delete obvious junk, and create a project index.”
The assistant should be able to propose a plan, show the suggested changes, let the user approve, and then apply them.
This would make ChatGPT feel less like a pile of old conversations and more like an actual long-term assistant.
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