Restore a focused native macOS Codex app - the combined super app has broken basic chat organization
Open 💬 1 comment Opened Jul 30, 2026 by mikeryan-mjr
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Build: 26.727.40816 on macOS
The combined ChatGPT/Codex desktop app has made basic chat and project organization confusing, unreliable, and unnecessarily difficult.
Problems encountered:
- Ordinary new chats can unexpectedly inherit the currently selected local project.
- The ChatGPT sidebar displays local Codex chats inside projects but provides no visible move or remove action.
- Moving a misplaced chat requires discovering that you must switch from ChatGPT view to Codex view and then drag it into a separate Chats section.
- ChatGPT projects, local Codex projects, ChatGPT chats, and local Codex chats are mixed together without clear distinctions.
- Controls documented for ChatGPT, such as a chat overflow menu with Remove, do not exist for the local Codex chats displayed in this interface.
This is hostile to basic navigation and destroys confidence that a new conversation will be created in the intended place.
Please provide:
- A focused, native macOS Codex application instead of forcing Codex into a “super app.”
- An obvious “New standalone chat” default.
- A clearly visible project assignment on every chat.
- A one-step “Move out of project” action wherever the chat appears.
- Consistent controls across sidebar modes.
- An option to use Codex without the combined ChatGPT/Work interface.
I am losing patience with the product direction and am seriously considering moving to a competitor.
Feedback reference: 019fb4d3-4401-7c40-8d76-4dedb2dde74f
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