Is there a way to organise ChatGPT project chats in a custom/alphabetical order?

On May 12, a user on the ChatGPT community forum posted what looked, on the surface, like a simple question: is there any way to sort chats inside ChatGPT's Projects feature? Alphabetically, manually, by date — by anything the user actually chooses? The question was brief. The implications were not. Because when someone has clearly already opened every settings panel and found nothing before finally posting to a forum, the absence of an answer is itself the answer. Projects arrived as OpenAI's attempt to bring order to the sprawl that develops when anyone uses ChatGPT seriously — dedicated workspaces, persistent context, a place where related conversations could finally live together rather than dissolving into an undifferentiated scroll of chat history. The pitch was organisation. The irony, apparently, is that once you have enough projects and enough chats inside them, the organisation inside the organisation becomes its own problem. There is no sort function. There is no drag-to-reorder. The chats sit where ChatGPT puts them, and the user watches.

If confirmed as a deliberate omission rather than a forthcoming feature, this matters in a specific and frustrating way. Power users — the people OpenAI most wants to retain, the ones paying for Plus or Pro and actually building workflows inside Projects — are precisely the users who will hit this wall first. They are the ones with twenty project chats, not three. The inability to sort is not a catastrophic flaw, but it is the kind of friction that accumulates quietly into resentment, the kind that sends people to Reddit to ask whether they are missing something obvious, and then to competitor tools when the answer turns out to be no. Second-order, this speaks to a broader pattern in ChatGPT's product development: the headline feature ships, the quality-of-life layer follows slowly, if at all. Notion had the same growing pains. The difference is that Notion users were building their own organisational systems from the start; ChatGPT users were sold one.

Watch for any OpenAI response in the community thread, or a quiet update to the Projects interface that adds sorting controls — that kind of silent fix would confirm the gap was known internally all along.

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