Using projects in ChatGPT

Source: OpenAI Date: 2026-04-10 URL: https://openai.com/academy/projects

Summary

OpenAI Academy educational resource from April 2026 on using Projects in ChatGPT — a guide covering the Projects feature that organizes conversations, files, and context into persistent, named workspaces. Projects, launched in late 2024, gave users a way to maintain longer-term context across multiple conversations about the same topic or work area, addressing the fundamental statelessness limitation of early ChatGPT.

Implications

Projects as the organizational layer for power users. As ChatGPT adoption matured, the bottleneck shifted from “how do I use this?” to “how do I organize my AI work?” Projects addressed that organizational need and were a retention mechanism for power users who had built habits around specific Projects. The Academy guide reinforced Projects adoption for users who had ChatGPT access but hadn’t discovered the feature.

Watch: How Projects use correlated with retention and subscription tier (Pro vs. Plus vs. Team) and whether the feature was used primarily by individual power users or by teams as a collaborative workspace — the latter use case blurred with Workspace Agents in the enterprise context.