Blog · 28 April 2026

How to save links and resources with ChatGPT

ChatGPT finds great links and then forgets them. Connect it to your swipe file over MCP and it saves, sorts, and finds them for you. Setup, prompts, and limits.

TLDR

• ChatGPT is great at finding and sorting links, and terrible at keeping them. Memory isn’t a bookmark list, and chats get buried.
• Connect it to Savepad over MCP (Developer mode, Plus or higher) and it can save links and notes into your folders, then find them again later.
• Best uses: dump a messy list and have it filed, have it research examples and save the good ones, and search your swipe file in plain English.
• Savepad has no AI inside it. ChatGPT does the sorting in your chat, Savepad keeps the result.

The problem with keeping links in ChatGPT

You ask ChatGPT for “five B2B homepages with a good product tour” and get a decent answer. Two weeks later you need them again. They’re somewhere in a chat called “Homepage ideas” (or was it “Untitled”?), and the links might not even be in that one.

ChatGPT has a few ways to keep things, and none of them is a place for resources:

• Chat history is one long list of conversations. You can search it, but you’re searching chats, not links.
• Memory keeps facts about you, like “works in marketing at a dev tool”. It isn’t a list you can browse or sort.
• Projects group chats and files together, which helps, but a link is still just a line of text in a chat.

What you want is the links themselves, each with its preview, in the right folder, findable by what’s on the page.

Connect ChatGPT to Savepad

ChatGPT talks to other tools over MCP, and it calls the setting Developer mode. It needs Plus, Pro, Business, or Enterprise. OpenAI renames these menus every few months, so if a label doesn’t match, look for the nearest thing. The step-by-step guide gets updated when they do.

1. In Savepad, go to Settings, then API and assistants, pick ChatGPT, and press Make my link. Tick Full control if you want ChatGPT to make folders too.
2. In ChatGPT, open Settings, then Apps (or Connectors), then Advanced settings, and switch on Developer mode.
3. Back on Apps, press Create. Name it Savepad, paste your link as the MCP Server URL, pick No authentication (the link is the key), tick I trust this application, and press Create.
4. In a chat, press +, then More, and pick Savepad.

What to have it do

File a messy list

Got links in a Google Doc, a notes app, or an email to yourself? Paste the lot:

Save all of these. Put competitor homepages in Competitors, email examples in Email, and anything else in Unsorted. Add a note to each saying where I found it: “Q3 planning doc”.

Savepad fetches each page as it comes in, so you get titles, previews, and descriptions without typing any of them.

Research, then save the keepers

ChatGPT can browse, so let it do the legwork:

Find B2B SaaS homepages that show the product in the first screen, and save the six best to Homepages with a one-line note on why.

Then open the folder in Savepad and delete the two you don’t like. It’s fast, but it’s still your swipe file.

Keep an answer

When ChatGPT writes something worth keeping, like a teardown of a pricing page or a list of subject line formulas, save it as a note next to the examples it’s about:

Save that teardown as a note in Pricing pages.

Ask your swipe file questions

What have I saved about free trials? Anything from this year?

ChatGPT searches your Savepad (titles, notes, and the text of the pages you saved) and answers with links you can open.

A few rules that help

• Name the folders. ChatGPT can look up your folders, but it guesses less when you tell it.
• Keep the link to yourself. It has your key inside it. Don’t paste it in a shared chat or a screenshot. You can revoke it in Settings any time.
• Check what it filed. It’s sorting by what’s on the page, and pages lie. A “pricing” link that’s really a blog post about pricing will happen.

Same idea, different assistant

On Claude, it’s called a custom connector and works on the free plan too. That’s in how to save links with Claude. If you’re pulling things together from everywhere (Slack, Figma, Drive, your bookmarks bar), getting everything into one place walks through it source by source.

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