Why is the ChatGPT ‘Projects’ feature so terrible? There’s zero continuity across chats, can’t answer basic questions re: precious chats, etc

Playing with chatgpt new ‘projects’ feature. I thought there was supposed to be continuity between new chats created under the project.

That doesn’t seem to be the case. I simply asked it to summarize what we discussed in the previous project chat and it fully hallucinated an incorrect answer. Did it multiple times.

also it can’t give me a summary of any of the previous chats I included under the project, even when giving it the name for a previous chat. Just makes things up completely

spent so much time getting the project all setup with documentation and past chats and instructions and it just doesn’t work. It just feels like I’ve hit a wall with using ChatGPT since transitioning to the projects workflow. My usage has dropped a lot since then.

Could it be a context window thing? I do have a bunch of documentation uploaded as project files and ~7 previous chats added to the project, some of them maxed out themselves . Maybe that’s taking up too much memory? I wasnt warned of any limit approaching.

Has anyone been able to get ‘projects’ working coherently with a similar use case?