How to Pin ChatGPT Conversations and Save the Best Replies
Pin the ChatGPT chats you keep returning to, and save single replies and prompts to a searchable library on ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Free and fully local.
By Iliass El Barhoumi · Updated
Disclosure: I build FavGPT, the extension this post features. The advice stands on its own; the tool is just how I put it into practice.
If you use ChatGPT every day, two things get lost: the conversations you keep coming back to, and the single answers worth keeping. A long sidebar buries the first, and the second is buried inside the first. FavGPT is the free Chrome extension I build to fix both.
What ChatGPT Already Gives You
ChatGPT has improved here, so start with what is built in. Projects group related chats with shared files and instructions. The sidebar search (Ctrl+K, or Cmd+K on a Mac) matches the words in a chat's messages as well as its title, and archived chats stay searchable, according to OpenAI's help centre.
What none of that does is keep one reply you want to reuse, or the prompt that produced it, somewhere you can find in two seconds. And none of it carries over to Claude or Gemini if you use more than one assistant.
How to Pin a ChatGPT Conversation with FavGPT
FavGPT adds a Favourites section at the top of the ChatGPT sidebar. Right-click any conversation in the sidebar and choose "Add to Favourites", and it stays pinned there across sessions, tabs and browser restarts. Click the × next to a favourite to unpin it.
How to Save a Single Reply or Prompt
On ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, FavGPT puts a bookmark next to every reply. Click it and the reply is saved, with its formatting, to a library in Chrome's side panel, with a link back to the conversation it came from.
- Save replies: hover an answer and click the bookmark
- Save prompts: click the bookmark next to your own message, or right-click selected text on any page
- Find anything: search, tags and filters in the side panel
- Reuse a prompt: click Use to insert it into the chat box of your open ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini tab
- Templates: write {{placeholders}} into a prompt and fill them in each time you use it
- Export: copy as Markdown, download .md files or send a note to Obsidian
Privacy and Data
FavGPT is fully local. Saved replies, prompts and pinned chats live in your browser's local storage, and nothing is sent to a server: FavGPT has no server, no analytics and no account. It runs only on chatgpt.com, claude.ai and gemini.google.com, and saves only what you choose to save. The details are in the FavGPT privacy policy.
Getting Started
Install FavGPT from the Chrome Web Store, open ChatGPT and right-click a conversation to pin it, or hover any reply and click the bookmark. Click the FavGPT icon to open your library in the side panel. It is free, with no paywall. For a complete system around it, read how to organize your ChatGPT conversations.
