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Yesterday I wanted to find a conversation snippet in ChatGPT of a conversation I had maybe 1 or 2 weeks ago. Searching for a single keyword would have been enou

Yesterday I wanted to find a conversation snippet in ChatGPT of a conversation I had maybe 1 or 2 weeks ago. Searching for a single keyword would have been enough to find it. How is it possible that there's still no way to search through your conversations?

potatoman22 2y ago
Try exporting your data and searching the JSON/HTML.
Jedd 2y ago
Are you complaining about OpenAI's ChatGPT's web UI interface?
code51 2y ago
For Mac and iOS, you can install ChatGPT app. Why they won't enable search for their main web user crowd is beyond me. Perhaps they are just afraid of scale. With all their might, it's still possible that they can't estimate the scale and complexity of queries they might receive.
- nilsherzig 2y ago
  They did staged rollouts for almost every recent feature. I think it might be in their interest if you just ask the LLM again? Old answers might not be up to their current standards and they don't gain feedback from you looking at old answers
- xyc 2y ago
  A user's personal data really does not have that much scale. Worst case they can cache everything locally. I've imported thousands of chat sessions into a local AI chat app's database, total storage is under 30MB. Full text search (with highlights and all) is almost instant.
BaculumMeumEst 2y ago
There are lots of ways to search through your conversations, just not through OpenAI's web interface. If you don't want to explore alternatives because you don't want to lose access to your conversations, I would argue you've just demonstrated to yourself why you should avoid proactively avoid vendor lock-in.
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xyc 2y ago
Check out https://recurse.chat https://recurse.chat (I'm the dev). You can import ChatGPT messages. It has almost instant full text search over thousands of chat sessions. Also supports llama.cpp, local embedding / RAG, and most recently bookmarks and nested folders.

potatoman22 2y ago

Try exporting your data and searching the JSON/HTML.

Jedd 2y ago

Are you complaining about OpenAI's ChatGPT's web UI interface?

code51 2y ago

For Mac and iOS, you can install ChatGPT app. Why they won't enable search for their main web user crowd is beyond me. Perhaps they are just afraid of scale. With all their might, it's still possible that they can't estimate the scale and complexity of queries they might receive.

nilsherzig 2y ago
They did staged rollouts for almost every recent feature. I think it might be in their interest if you just ask the LLM again? Old answers might not be up to their current standards and they don't gain feedback from you looking at old answers
xyc 2y ago
A user's personal data really does not have that much scale. Worst case they can cache everything locally. I've imported thousands of chat sessions into a local AI chat app's database, total storage is under 30MB. Full text search (with highlights and all) is almost instant.

BaculumMeumEst 2y ago

There are lots of ways to search through your conversations, just not through OpenAI's web interface. If you don't want to explore alternatives because you don't want to lose access to your conversations, I would argue you've just demonstrated to yourself why you should avoid proactively avoid vendor lock-in.

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xyc 2y ago

Check out https://recurse.chat https://recurse.chat (I'm the dev). You can import ChatGPT messages. It has almost instant full text search over thousands of chat sessions. Also supports llama.cpp, local embedding / RAG, and most recently bookmarks and nested folders.