Speed Booster Toolkit 5.0: folders, bookmarks and many chats at once

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ChatGPT’s sidebar is one long list, newest first. After a few hundred chats, finding last month’s work means scrolling, or guessing the right word for search. Version 5.0 gives that list folders, right where your chats already are, together with message bookmarks and a way to act on many chats at once.

If you already have the extension, there’s nothing to do: your browser updates it by itself, on Chrome and Firefox alike.

Folders, in ChatGPT’s own sidebar

A new section called Recents & Folders sits in ChatGPT’s sidebar and looks like the rest of it. Press New folder, name it, and drag a chat onto it. Or open a chat’s menu and choose Move to folder, which is also in ChatGPT’s own ⋯ menu, so you don’t have to change habits.

Folders can hold folders, each can have its own colour, and you can sort them by name or put them in your own order. Every change can be undone, from the note that appears after it, or with Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z on a Mac) while the pointer is over the sidebar.

Recents & Folders
Search chats…
Work
Python retry decorator
Thesis
Thesis chapter 3 edits
Personal
Lisbon trip in May
Sourdough schedule
Today
Q3 launch plan
Churn query in SQL
Cover letter, design role
Bike fitting notes
Q3 launch plan1,284 messages
What’s the deadline for the press kit?

End of week 6. It needs screenshots, the final pricing, two customer quotes and a short story of why you built it.

Turn the whole plan into a one-page summary.

Q3 launch on one page: research in weeks 1–2, pricing locked by week 4, a 200-team beta in weeks 5–6, the press kit by the end of week 6, and launch on the Tuesday of week 8.

When the sidebar is closed, or the window is too narrow for it, a fourth button on the extension’s column at the right edge opens the same folders in a panel.

The same folders on every computer

Your folders and bookmarks follow you to every browser you use the extension in: the laptop at home, the desktop at work. A change you make is sent within five seconds, and changes from your other browsers show up within five minutes.

They’re encrypted on your computer before they leave it. What reaches our server is enough to put your folders back together on your other browsers, and nothing a person could read: no chat titles, and no folder names in the clear. There’s no account to make for it.

Bookmark the answers you’ll want again

In a long chat, the one answer you need is always somewhere in the middle. Press the bookmark button in the row of buttons under any message (the row where ChatGPT’s copy button is), and it’s saved. The navigator on the right gets a Saved view listing every bookmark in the chat, and one click takes you back to it.

Bookmarks sync between your browsers in the same way as folders, whether you use folders or not.

Clear out dozens of chats at once

ChatGPT lets you delete or archive chats one at a time, or every chat you have from its settings, and nothing in between. Now you can hover over a chat in the sidebar and tick it, Shift-tick another to take every chat between the two, and use the bar at the bottom of the sidebar to move, export, archive or delete them together.

Delete always asks first. There’s no limit on how many chats you select, on any plan.

What’s free

FreePro
Folders5, subfolders includedNo limit
Bookmarks5No limit
Sync between browsersYesYes
Selecting many chatsNo limitNo limit

Every new install starts with 7 days of Pro. If your trial ends with more than 5 folders, you keep every one of them; the limit is only on making new ones. Pro is $7.99 once, with no subscription.

A few smaller things

  • The headings the extension adds to ChatGPT’s sidebar follow ChatGPT’s language, in 19 languages.
  • A bookmarked message has a small gold bookmark next to it in the navigator.
  • Settings has a Delete all folders and bookmarks button, which removes them from our server and from your browsers.

The full list of what changed, in this version and every one before it, is on the What’s new page.

Not installed yet?

It’s free, and takes a minute. Your chats stay on your computer.

Found something that doesn’t work, or a folder feature you miss? Write to [email protected]. It goes straight to the person who builds it.

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