I just want a clean way to manage chats, projects, and research. I mean I know I can pin so many chats, and I can group things in projects.

But I am doing a brand design project with nearly 30 - 40 chats in one project at the moment, and the fact that you can't rename a chat from within a chat (or even see the autogenerated name for that point). You can't tag or apply any logical grouping to chats in a project i.e. Logo, Wordmark, Email Footer, Social Branding, etc.

I spent a long time going through all the chats manually and then giving them a naming convention with tags built into the titles so that I can navigate the chats in my project. Even then, I still have to scroll through the whole list to find what I want.

Are you using codex app? In CLI you can fork/rename chats. Albeit you cant fork rename in one action which is annoying. I find naming chats, putting chats into folders, giving chat tabs unique colors according to their purpose helps me.