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Finding, Renaming and Organising Chats

Learn to keep useful conversations findable and organise work without deleting the wrong chat in this beginner-friendly ChatGPT lesson.

Learning outcomes

  • Explain how to keep useful conversations findable.
  • Complete the guided activity safely.
  • Check that you can organise work without deleting the wrong chat.

Before you begin

Use the correct ChatGPT account or approved workspace. Do not enter passwords, recovery codes or private business information into practice chats.

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Step-by-step instructions

  1. Open ChatGPT on the web, desktop or mobile device available to you and confirm you are using the intended account or workspace.
  2. Rename a practice chat and locate search, archive and delete controls.
  3. Pause and check privacy, permissions, source material, feature availability and any instruction that affects the task.
  4. Review the result carefully and confirm that you can organise work without deleting the wrong chat.
  5. Save only the useful, verified output and record one improvement for your next prompt.
Ian's practical tip: Start with fictional or non-sensitive information. Treat the first response as a draft, then verify facts, sources, calculations and permissions before using it.

Practical activity

Rename a practice chat and locate search, archive and delete controls. Your expected result is to organise work without deleting the wrong chat.

Good-practice checklist