What to know before merging unrelated chats into one ChatGPT project: inherited instructions and irreversible deletion

Original title: Thinking of merging all your chats into one big ChatGPT project to clean up? OpenAI's help page says a moved chat takes on that project's instructions and files

The author planned to tidy their ChatGPT sidebar by moving unrelated chats (car, dog, work) into one catch-all project, but stopped after reading OpenAI's help page. Per the page, a moved chat inherits the project's instructions and file context, project instructions override global custom instructions, questions in a project on Plus and Pro prioritize project chats and files, deleting a project deletes every chat inside with no undo, and chats made with a GPT cannot be moved into projects. The author ended up keeping projects only for content that truly shares files, grouping the rest into folders, and recommends their own AI Toolbox (2 top-level folders free with unlimited subfolders shown in the sidebar; more top-level folders require Premium).

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