codex - 💡(How to fix) Fix Codex client experience optimization [4 comments, 3 participants]

What variant of Codex are you using?

App

What feature would you like to see?

I have three UX suggestions for the Codex client:

1. Account switching

Please consider bringing the account-switching capability from the web version into the Codex client. Right now, switching accounts requires signing out and signing back in, which is inconvenient for users who move between personal accounts, work accounts, and different organizations.

It would be much smoother if the client supported quick account switching without a full logout/login flow.

2. Project grouping

Please consider adding project grouping or folders to the Projects section in the sidebar. As the number of projects grows, the current flat list becomes difficult to scan and manage.

It would be helpful to let users create groups, move projects into groups, and collapse or expand them. This would make the sidebar easier to organize by workspace, client, team, product area, or personal/work context.

3. Add quote-reply support for messages in a conversation

In longer Codex conversations, I often realize mid-thread that I want to respond based on a specific earlier message, tool result, decision, or assistant reply.

Currently, the closest related feature appears to be conversation forking from an earlier message. That is useful when I want to branch into a new thread, but it does not fully solve the case where I want to stay in the current conversation and explicitly reference one earlier message as context.

Expected behavior: Codex should allow users to quote or reference a specific message inside the current conversation. For example, a user could click a “Quote” or “Reply with reference” action on any prior message. The composer would then include a compact quoted preview, and the next prompt would be anchored to that selected message while still continuing in the same thread.

Suggested interaction:

• Hover over a previous user message, assistant response, tool result, or decision point.
• Click “Quote” or “Reply with reference”.
• Show a small quoted preview above the composer.
• Let the user type a follow-up that clearly refers to that selected message.
• Allow removing the quote before sending.

Impact: This would make multi-turn Codex conversations easier to navigate and reduce ambiguity when users want to revisit a specific earlier point without manually copying text or creating a separate fork.

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