ChatGPT struggles to remember previous prompts
13 posts across 3 communities in the last 60 days; 62% from community.openai.com.
“I have long conversations with ChatGPT. It often will forget or can’t find something we discussed even a few hours previously. For example, I’m writing a book. I have a project folder with sub chats. One for Story Development, one for Location Research, one for Storytelling and…”
“How to solve ChatGPT conversational memory issues”
“Turn my ChatGPT history into a searchable knowledge base to avoid repetition”
Users are frustrated with ChatGPT's inability to retain information from earlier in conversations, noting that this issue hasn’t improved over time. This limits the tool's usefulness for complex or ongoing tasks.
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Feature Request: Persistent Suggested Prompts Across a Chat Conversation
ChatGPT Remembers the Nouns but Forgets the Reasoning
[ChatGPT] ★★★ 3/5 (v1.2026.266) — Couldn’t remember smth across all chats
Quick Navigation to the Beginning of a ChatGPT Response
ChatGPT Web: Previous / Next Prompt Navigation Bookmarklet
“I have long conversations with ChatGPT. It often will forget or can’t find something we discussed even a few hours previously. For example, I’m writing a book. I have a project folder with sub chats. One for Story Development, one for Location Research, one for Storytelling and one for Writing and Publishing Details. Sometimes I’ll go through many hours of development and later it forgets what we discussed, or will mix up characters, or forget the world we developed. What are some prompts I can”
“Missing past prompt messages as well as the sidebar on the right that allows jump to messages”
Need better way to navigate past chats
[ChatGPT] ★★ 2/5 (v1.2026.209) — Always forgetting what chat said
Remember conversations that were not existed on the CLI
“[ChatGPT] ★★ 2/5 (v1.2026.202) — I ask it to do tasks, and it forgets to do them. If I ask it to give me a different fact of the day everyday it will repeat a fact 3-4 times. If I generate a picture it often will not generate the right one.”