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This is what I've found effective.

I use conversational English for basically every prompt I work with ChatGPT on as a regular person.

For my application, I have prompts that I have stored in source code, but those need to have very consistent, exact inputs and outputs (mostly JSON), so creating a specific prompt is important for those.

For anything human where a human can parse it, regular ChatGPT works perfectly fine!

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I think you guys are responding to the title, not the question. OP is wondering how to organize the history of chats.

This is true, and you're right. I think the perspective we're trying to walk from is: "if you're creating custom queries just to find common things from ChatGPT - that is, you're not creating an assistant and you're not using it for a coding backend (which have their own solutions), then we don't recommend going that route and going a different route.

What I've said does smell of the Super Smart(tm) and completely unhelpful Stack Overflow response, I will give you that.

I made a private blog that if something seems really valuable, I blog the prompt and output. Private so I don't waste time on the delusion of someone else reading it and everything that comes with that time wise.

Beyond that, the previous chats could practically be deleted for me. Its not like my prompts are such works of art that I couldn't recreate the thought if needed. Not to mention, Sonnet has made me not use chatGPT for about a month now so the blog is nicely divorced from the LLM flavor.

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