ChatGPT Spotlight

ChatGPT Spotlight tackles a very specific annoyance: once you have hundreds of conversations, finding the right one again means scrolling through an endless sidebar. The extension builds a local index of your chats and GPTs, then surfaces them through a fast search overlay. You press a hotkey — Cmd+S by default — inside ChatGPT, type a keyword, move with the arrow keys and hit Enter to land in the conversation you wanted. The default hotkey can be customised, and the interface ships with several language options.

The extension is built with privacy in mind. It performs no server calls and no tracking; the index lives in your browser, and the developer's Chrome Web Store disclosure states no user data is collected or shared. It also keeps the package small at around 134 KiB, so it adds essentially no overhead to normal browsing.

It has been kept current with ChatGPT's own changes: the release notes record a December 2023 update adding custom hotkeys and more languages, and an August 2024 update confirming it works on chatgpt.com after OpenAI moved domains. Ratings are high, though the install base is still modest. Because it reads the page structure of the ChatGPT web app, a major future redesign could require another update.