Organize chats

There might be some good news on the horizon - have seen a couple of articles recently that look promising... https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-reportedly-working-to-merge-teams-text-chat-and-channels-with-a-new-ui/

I came seeking the same and may have come across a possible solution for us.

1. Add the "People" app to your MS Teams.
2. There, you can add Contacts and assign a "Category" to them; the Categories will appear by default to the menu on the left.
3. Then, you can select a Category and it will filter the contact list to show only those members assigned that selected Category.
4. Then, you can select the option to "Chat" with that individual member.

For example, assigning Category "AR" to five individual Contact entries because they are on the "AR" team. Select the "AR" category, and you will see only those five individuals in your Contact List. Selecting the "Chat" icon from the Contact entry opens a chat window including the any history of chat with that person, just like in the regular "Chat" app.

Someone mentioned that you could color code chats, but I am not seeing that functionality.

It seems like a heavily requested function to be able to organize chats. I hope Microsoft jumps on it. Whenever there is a function lacking, I feel like everyone here is drawn back to Google or email correspondence.

Great point! This is kind of what I was trying to show with multiple topics. In this case Group topic contains two different topics or chats. Maybe I did not express this clearly. But I agree. I would like to have a group for Meetings that contains all the meetings I am involved with or need to reference frequently.

Group topic

Topic 1B

Topic 2A and 3A

I'd like to second this request. I cannot find the functionality to label chats with different colors, nor do I understand what is meant by external folders. Exporting and savings in folders doesn't seem efficient, as any new comments and edits would not update.