For the last few days, I’ve had access to the “Reference Chat History” feature in ChatGPT (I think it had been available for a while in the US, but it just landed on my account in the UK).
Wow… what a change!
I was putting together a page to describe the various tools we’ve been working on, and I just tried randomly asking ChatGPT to insert a description of “Gimlet” or “Old Fashioned”: it just did it. No context necessary, no links, no pages. It was just there, part of the memory I share with the app.
I do continuously switch between AI tools based on which one I think can perform better on any given task – or sometimes just to compare how they perform – and this feature makes ChatGPT more attractive: it has more reusable context than any of the other tools.
It’s quite likely that all other tools will develop similar features, but this will mean trying to silo users. I’ll tend to go where most of my memories are, and I won’t be switching and leaving all my memories behind.
My memories.
Hopefully a shared standard for memories (maybe MCP?) will soon emerge, and we won’t end up siloed again.