u/HoriZon-R — reddlx

I use ChatGPT Projects heavily. Like, genuinely heavily.

For me, Projects are not some minor feature. They are what make it possible to manage dozens of different topics, work areas, ideas, research threads, and random experiments without everything becoming chaos.

But now Project chats are showing in the main Recents list too.

I honestly don’t understand this move.

The old behavior was clean:

Recents = unorganized chats
Projects = organized chats

The new behavior makes Recents feel like an “everything list,” which is exactly what Projects were supposed to prevent.

I’m not saying everyone has to use the old behavior. But at least give us a switch:

Recents view:

All chats
Only chats outside Projects

This would instantly fix the problem for both types of users.

I don’t want to bash ChatGPT here, because Projects has genuinely been one of the best organizational features they’ve added.

But this recent change is just baffling.

Previously, when you moved a chat into a Project, it disappeared from the main Recents list. That made perfect sense. Recents was for loose chats. Projects were for organized work.

Now, chats inside Projects are showing in Recents too.

So if you have 10 Projects with 10 chats each, your Recents suddenly becomes a giant cluttered list of 100 chats. That completely defeats the purpose of organizing things into Projects.

I really hope OpenAI adds a simple switch:

Show Project chats in Recents: On / Off

Because right now, Projects feel less like folders and more like tags.

24 Hour Update - We won: ChatGPT Projects team contacted me. We had a really constructive discussion about this matter. And they reverted back the change.

ChatGPT thank you for listening. You're Awesome. Any team that is in this much tune with its userbase and listens to feedback definitely deserves to win. Just Amazing guys.