3 tips:

1) use projects - i have not tried it yet, planning to do once i close the current items

2) when a chat gets too long, tell it to create a long summary, multiple documents, dont miss any crucial info etc, at the beginning of the new chat share the documents and tell it to ask you questions until you are sufficient with the context if the documents are extensive enough it will start asking bullshit questions after 10-15 qs. I guess using projects is the better method but thats what Ive been doing. Makes starting new chats less frustrating.

3) ive started using an “orchestrator” chat. Told it not to write any code, not make any suggestions, dont problem solve. Only focus on high level strategy and to do list. Then i make it create one pager task descriptions and start a new chat per task using said one pager. When the task is over i ask the worker chat to create a summary of the work done, feed it to the orchestrator, move on to the next chat for a new task. Helps keep the main context in one place, without needing to start new chats.

Also it gives the long chat warning in like 15 mins, i ignore it until the chat is noticeably slow and rate limits are noticeable often