If you use ChatGPT for real work, you’ve felt this:
- You wrote a great prompt once… then lost it.
- You remember “that one answer” from a long thread… then waste 10 minutes scrolling.
- Your best snippets end up scattered across notes, screenshots, and half-saved chats.
That’s not a motivation problem. It’s a retrieval problem.
I built Chat Navigator — a Chrome extension that adds a sidebar inside ChatGPT for:
- Search
- Message bookmarks
- Prompt management (a prompt library you can reuse)
Install (Chrome Web Store): https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/aapchhfjoohmohpdcadghjacklcdfdml?utm_source=dev
Product page: https://infolily.com/
What it does
1) Search long threads without scrolling
Chat Navigator gives you a sidebar outline + search so you can jump to the message you need instead of dragging a scrollbar through a 200-message conversation.
2) Bookmark messages, not just chats
Most of the value is in a single reply: a code block, a checklist, a debugging plan, a rewrite.
Chat Navigator lets you bookmark the exact message so you can retrieve it later.
3) Prompt management: build a real prompt library
If you keep rewriting the same prompts (“review my code”, “summarize this”, “draft a reply”, “generate test cases”), you’re wasting time.
Save your best prompts and insert them when you need them.
4) Code extraction
If you’re a dev, you know the pain: great snippet buried in a thread.
Chat Navigator pulls code blocks out so you can copy cleanly.
The workflow (this is the part that actually changes your day)
Here’s the simple system I use:
1) When a reply is worth reusing (snippet, checklist, explanation), bookmark the message.
2) Give it a label you’ll actually search later
Examples: rails caching p95, sidekiq retries, sql index triage, postmortem template
3) Save the prompt template that produced it in the prompt library.
4) Next time: search once → jump directly → reuse the prompt.
That’s the difference between:
- “I remember ChatGPT said something…” and
- “I can retrieve it in 5 seconds.”
Keyboard shortcuts (for people who hate mouse gymnastics)
These are the shortcuts I personally care about:
-
j / kor↑ / ↓to move between messages -
bto bookmark a message -
Shift + bto bookmark the whole conversation -
Enterto open message details
Privacy stance (because this matters)
I built this to be private by design:
- The goal is to sync only what you explicitly save (bookmarks + prompts).
- Not your entire conversation history.
If you’re evaluating extensions, read permissions and data handling like a paranoid adult.
Compatibility
- Works in Chromium-based browsers that support Chrome extensions: Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc
Try it
If your ChatGPT usage produces real value, you need a way to keep that value.
Install (Chrome Web Store): https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/aapchhfjoohmohpdcadghjacklcdfdml?utm_source=dev
Product page: https://infolily.com/
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