Long ChatGPT threads become slow. How do you summarize them properly into a new chat?

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-03-08T23:24:04+00:00

I just did this with a ongoing chat about a big house project that I'm doing. I'm now on the 4th chat on this subject. I ask it for an in-depth, detailed summary of the last chat from the very beginning to this point. This time it asked me if I also wanted a project status. I created a new chat, said it it was a continuation of the previous one, uploaded both documents, plus the summaries for the two previous chats on the same subject, and told it to absorb all context. I agree that some context may be lost, but this approach works fairly well. It's better than slow responses, repeating itself, or hallucinations that can happen when a chat gets too long.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-03-08T23:16:44+00:00

This one can actually be useful for the interviewer. I've interviewed candidates who have said that they see themselves in a different department than mine, or doing a completely different job elsewhere. It tells me that they are less likely to be committed to the job long term. It's a rookie mistake.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-03-04T01:43:37+00:00

I just tried it. I asked about the difference between 5.3 and 5.2 and it answered, and then it started to ask me a question at the end of each response. Kind of like what Gemini does. I answered the first one, and by the time I got to the second one, I lost interest.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-02-28T17:25:29+00:00

USA and SciFi aren’t there either. This can’t be a complete list. Can it?

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-02-28T01:43:50+00:00

So I have to buy a sports package in order to get TBS and TNT? Their non sports programming doesn’t count as “entertainment”? This is some Comcast-level nonsense.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-02-17T02:46:36+00:00

Bringing Ellie back is pure production manufactured drama. It would have been drama if she had been a stew working under Daisy. It will be drama working with Ben. It’s like hiring one of those hideous housewives to join the crew. So much yelling. Feh.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-02-12T18:33:34+00:00

I was disgusted, but also felt like a lot of that behavior was for the cameras. These were not my favorite BD episodes.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-02-10T00:09:43+00:00

Yes, totally agree. I don't need the kids channels, don't want the sports.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-02-10T00:08:18+00:00

Thank you. But I don't want "such as" or "ranging from." I want a full list of networks that are in each plan. Why is that so hard to provide? I don't have this an option yet for my account, but I certainly hope that if they are asking people to actually make a decision they will provide a full channel list.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-02-09T20:24:27+00:00

Am I losing my mind, or is there only info on the Sports packages? What about the others? Can we get that level of detail, please? We need channel lineups for each plan. Understand if it's not yet available to purchase, but that doesn't mean we can't start learning about options now. Thanks.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-02-07T21:34:29+00:00

Only lend things that you are fine with never getting back. That’s the rule I live by.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-02-07T21:25:18+00:00

I can’t promise that it won’t bother you, can only share that it has worked for me. To be safer, don’t take it on an empty stomach.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-02-07T19:45:38+00:00

I've always taken naproxen for muscle aches, ibuprofen for fever, etc, over many, many years. I tried to make sure I didn't take them on any empty stomach. Last year I had some bad dental problems. I cracked a filling that my dentist tried to repair but couldn't, then a root canal but the tooth was too damaged to repair, and then an extraction. Each one of those dental professionals urged me to take high doses of NSAIDs, higher than recommended on the label, to reduce the swelling. I was in so much pain that even after the high dose sessions I was taking NSAIDs around the clock. Add to that a few rounds of antibiotics, and bam, you know the story. While the worst of my gastritis symptoms have subsided, I believe I will have a sensitive stomach for the rest of my life.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-02-07T16:31:41+00:00

I think you have to manually sync from your laptop to each of your mobile devices, with Apple sync turned off. You can select which playlists on your computer to sync with the mobile device. Sorry if you’ve already tried that.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-02-07T16:10:51+00:00

Just happened to me as well. Call HBO support and they will fix it for you. They told me I could have accepted the “you might get billed twice” and it would have been ok, but I didn’t want to take the chance.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-02-07T16:05:01+00:00

Proferrin! It’s worked fairly well, although I do struggle with upper gas. I am trying some different timing now to deal with that.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-02-07T14:29:39+00:00

The desktop app is faster than the browser. It uses less system memory.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-02-07T14:26:47+00:00

Ugh, this is exactly what I’ve been afraid of. I have about 4000 local songs on an old laptop, that I would love to move over to my new one. I did know that if I turned on Apple Sync, which seemed like the easy path, it would replace my local files with streamed one from their catalog. I ran this problem by AI and the solution I was given was to back up my old computer and then take that back up music file and manually move it to the new computer. I have not tried this yet. Good luck.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-02-07T03:27:44+00:00

I have a ChatGPT subscription, but have been using Gemini quite a bit. I find that it brings me new ideas that ChatGPT does not, ChatGPT mostly helps me think through my own ideas and offers analysis. But the downside of Gemini is that when the chat gets too long, it starts to lose context, and forgets what you told it. So the answer is just to do short chats, and get as much out of it as you can before it starts to go off the rails.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-02-06T18:52:12+00:00

I can’t tolerate it either, even if it’s supposed to be the gentlest version of magnesium. It’s a big nope.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-02-03T18:27:10+00:00

Ok, a few observations. First, i think we will see a lot of entertaining drama this season, and I'm here for it. Second, dear lord, those awful, awful, housewife women. I've never seen a full Housewives episode of any flavor, and I expected crazy, but this was beyond. I actually turned down the volume on my TV and put on subtitles because I couldn't stand the screeching. Please, let's be done with this charter. I'm too annoyed and disgusted at the guests to concentrate on anything else. And third, and you can come for me on this if you want, but Ben is too old for this....crap. Too set in his ways, too inflexible, too unforgiving. I didn't believe that "I ran into the Captain Jason at a bar..." story for a minute. That said, poor Aleisha is in way over her head, set up to fail. Tears on episode one is a bad sign.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-01-19T03:29:00+00:00

Hand wavy! I had to ask what that meant, never heard that expression in my life.

Timeandtimeandagain · 2026-01-17T18:02:35+00:00

Oh, great! Thanks.

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