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Maximizing Productivity with Updated ChatGPT Tasks: Key Features Every Business Leader Should Know
The latest updates to ChatGPT tasks have quietly introduced significant capabilities that are highly relevant to business owners and organizational decision-makers. While the sunset of the proactive Pulse feature may have gone unnoticed by many, the refined scheduling and automation tools now available within ChatGPT represent a substantial upgrade. Here’s a detailed breakdown of what’s new, why it matters, and precisely how these features can be leveraged for real business value.
ChatGPT Task Management: An Overlooked Resource for Scheduling and Automation
Recent platform changes have increased the practical utility of ChatGPT tasks. The announcement that Pulse would be retired in favor of an enhanced version of tasks led to several behind-the-scenes updates, including a dedicated scheduling page, improved task creation flows, flexible recurrence options, and better notifications. These changes now allow users to schedule both one-off and recurring tasks, and to request notifications when meaningful updates are detected 05:16.
The ability to schedule tasks is no longer limited by obscure interfaces or hidden URLs. Updated navigation on both web and mobile platforms has restored easy sidebar access, making it practical to set up and monitor scheduled automations directly from ChatGPT’s main workspace 09:37.
Flexible Task Scheduling: Business-Centric Plan Limits and Use Cases
Plan-based task limits are now explicit and streamlined: the entry-level paid plan allows three scheduled tasks, the standard plan allows five, team accounts allow ten, and pro/enterprise subscribers have up to fifteen concurrent schedules 08:06. This structure encourages thoughtful automation, particularly important for teams and individuals managing operational workflows.
The new system supports advanced scheduling parameters including hourly, daily, weekdays, weekly, monthly, and fully custom recurrence, as well as start and end dates—ideal for campaign-style initiatives, reporting cycles, or project-specific routines 15:56.
Seamless Integration with Business Applications via App Connections and MCPs
A distinguishing aspect of the update is the expanded ability to connect ChatGPT tasks to business-critical applications using both native connectors and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP support has been quietly rolled out for all paid accounts, enabling integration with a broad spectrum of SaaS platforms—even where official connectors do not exist 20:18.
By enabling developer mode in advanced settings, business users can now aggregate data from CRM systems, email newsletters, cloud storage, and analytics platforms into a single conversational interface. For example, newsletter metrics from platforms without a native ChatGPT integration can be pulled into the daily workflow via MCP, allowing for comprehensive, unified reporting and decision support 22:12.
Practical Business Workflows: Real Automations and Contextual Intelligence
The discussion outlined several examples of live business automations, from daily email triage drawing on Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive integrations, to the automated generation of interactive charts tracking specific stock prices throughout the day 13:28, 15:10. These tasks make use of the platform’s growing ability to read, write, and manage information across connected apps.
Importantly, the platform now keeps all automation outputs within persistent conversation threads. This allows complex projects or campaigns to leverage ongoing chat context—especially valuable for roles like project management, where daily updates from multiple sources are needed and the context needs to persist over time 16:22, 16:41.
Projects and Task Stacking: New Opportunities for Team Collaboration
One of the notable enhancements is the ability to harness tasks within ChatGPT’s project feature. This enables teams to organize recurring workflows, reference shared files, and track discussions within a unified project workspace. While tasks remain unavailable in voice mode and custom GPTs, this development allows task scheduling within team-shared environments—facilitating workflow standardization and cross-functional collaboration 26:06.
Leveraging Memory and Prompt Generation for Business Operations
ChatGPT now utilizes its memory capacity and conversation history to propose actionable prompts tailored to the user’s connected apps and preferences. A well-structured prompt can result in a list of copy-and-paste-ready scheduled commands for automating routine processes, informed by previous usage patterns and business context 27:09. This feature is particularly effective for surfacing automation ideas that directly address established business needs, accelerating adoption without requiring extensive technical setup.
Preparing for Platform Convergence: Codex and the Super-App Foundation
Updates indicate clear moves towards platform convergence, with scheduled tasks being unified across ChatGPT and Codex. This subtle but significant alignment prepares the landscape for enterprise users to deploy end-to-end automation strategies, backed by both natural language interfaces and robust agentic features 25:14.
Conclusion: Actionable Insights for Forward-Thinking Firms
The latest enhancements to ChatGPT tasks are purpose-built for business utility, moving far beyond basic reminders and to-do lists. With expanded scheduling, direct app integrations—even for platforms without native support—and persistent conversational context, businesses can automate alerts, reports, and daily triage, and manage project information in a single unified environment. Implementation requires only natural language prompts and basic setup, making it accessible for non-technical leaders while granting advanced leverage to teams seeking operational efficiency.
For those looking to unlock the full value of AI automation in everyday operations, a careful review of ChatGPT task capabilities—paired with thoughtful application-specific scheduling and integration—offers immediate, practical returns.
Topics Covered in This Episode:
- ChatGPT Pulse Sunsetting & Transition
- New Features in ChatGPT Tasks
- ChatGPT Tasks Usage Limits by Plan
- ChatGPT Tasks User Interface Updates
- Best Practices for Scheduling Tasks
- Task Scheduling with App Integrations
- Editing and Managing Scheduled Tasks
- Secret Shortcuts for ChatGPT Tasks
- MCP Developer Mode and Integration
- Agentic Capabilities of ChatGPT Apps
- Tasks Functionality Within Projects
- Stacking Memory for Task Automation
Episode Transcript
Jordan Wilson [00:00:17]:
OpenAI announced something about two weeks ago that I think the majority of people overlooked. They announced that they were sunsetting the proactive chat GPT pulse feature and instead sending some of that compute and those requests to the updated chat GPT tasks. And I think that for the most part, people overlook this for two major reasons. Number one, I think hardly anyone was using chat g p t pulse. I think those that were using it loved it. Me, not so much. But you did have to be on the $200 a month pro plan. So I don't think a lot of people look at this announcement and cared because not a lot of people were using it.
Jordan Wilson [00:00:59]:
And when they said, hey. Instead, we're getting chat GBD task. Well, those were rolled out last year. So people just assumed nothing new to see here. Let's move on. But you are absolutely wrong because if you didn't read the fine print, but don't worry, I do, you probably missed some of the new features that OpenAI also included with the new chat g p t tasks. And just some of the dev stuff behind the scenes that's quietly been updated and maybe just not well documented on OpenAI's website. So we're gonna be going over that today.
Jordan Wilson [00:01:36]:
I'm gonna show you exactly what chat g p t tasks are, what's new, how to use them, and give you my five secret shortcuts that you can use today. So here is the big picture. ChatGPT tasks quietly got crazy powerful, and like I said, I don't think enough people are using them. So earlier this month, Chat GPT announced the sunsetting of pulse, but the reentry and updated version of Chat GPT tasks. So it's now easier to use Chat GPT tasks, and they work in more places, which is a big unlock, and we're gonna get to that here in a bit. And Chachipity task, I think, if nothing else, they're a great what I call gateway agent. So if you've still been kind of turned off by codex, as amazing as I think it is because you're like, oh, I'm not too technical. Or maybe if you don't have access to workspace agents inside of ChatGPT or if you haven't used those, well, start using ChatGPT test.
Jordan Wilson [00:02:35]:
I guarantee you if they gave it a different name and gave it a button, this thing would have gone viral. But it's kind of hard to find, and it's not a lot of marketing around it, which is why I think this is probably one of the most underrated features in AI today. So stick with me on today's AI at work on Wednesday show, and here's what you're gonna learn. You're gonna know what tasks are, how they work, and the different ways you could use them. You're gonna know how to combine the best silent features of chat GPT with the updated task settings, And I'm gonna give you at the end of my five secret shortcuts that no one is talking about, and you can use them today. Sound good? Yeah. This one is gonna be a fast one. Welcome to Everyday AI and our Wednesday seek, segments putting AI to work on Wednesday.
Jordan Wilson [00:03:26]:
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Jordan Wilson [00:03:57]:
And make sure you do check out that newsletter because there was a ton a ton of updates, yesterday in the world of AI. I mean, great stuff from Notebook, Claude, we got Sonnet five. We got updates from Chat GBT, so make sure to check out the newsletter. But let's get into Chat GBT tasks. Because like I said, people may look at this. And I do think that this is probably the most underrated feature inside of chat g b t because for nontechnical people who are maybe saying, oh, I'm I'm not really big on the agent to harness. I'm more of an old school chat g b t person. Well, great.
Jordan Wilson [00:04:34]:
Chat g b t chat g b t tasks are definitely going to be for you. So if this episode is helpful, make sure you check out the show notes. Find the LinkedIn URL. We always put that every single day in the show note. Repost this, and I will send you the guide that we put together, which is a banger. I only do about two of these a month because they take a lot of time to put together. So we put together our chat GPT tasks cheat sheet, which is a practical checklist and 15 starter tasks for beginners to level up with the updated chat GPT tasks. So you don't gotta pay anything.
Jordan Wilson [00:05:06]:
Just go repost this and I'll send it. So here's what's new inside of chat GPT tasks and a little, bit of a precursor on what they are from OpenAI's website. They said, we are making scheduled tasks easier to create and manage in chat g p t with a dedicated scheduled page, improving task creation and editing flows, more flexible scheduling options, and better notifications. User can schedule one off and recurring tasks and also ask chat g b t to check for changes and notify them when there's a meaningful update. So like I said, they kind of tied in this, task feature upgrade with the sunsetting of chat GPT Pulse, which, you know, like I said, I don't think a lot of people use this. I was actually super excited, when chat GPT Pulse was announced. It was supposed to be this, proactive agent that just showed up every single day. There was a dedicated spot in the mobile app, and it was, you know, based on your history.
Jordan Wilson [00:06:06]:
It was kind of like almost like a news feed, right, of what was supposed to be helpful. I didn't like it because I didn't think it was very steerable. I talked about it many times on the show, but, they said we're retiring Pulse in the next fourteen days. This was from last week. And they said, why are you removing Pulse? So OpenAI said, proactive work remains an important part of making chat g b t more useful. With polls, we learned that proactive experiences are most useful when they're personalized, action oriented, and steerable by the user. We also saw strong engagement with tasks after introducing them in the Pulse surface, showing that people, showing that people value having a dedicated place for proactive work. We're bringing those learnings back into scheduled tasks so users can keep getting useful updates and recurring help in a more focused experience.
Jordan Wilson [00:06:55]:
So this I'm glad they actually are getting rid of Pulse because the other thing is when they introduce Pulse, if you were on that $200 a month pro plan, they took away some of the basic scheduling features of CHGPT tasks. So I have a lot of paid CHEDGPT accounts. I have a lot of paid Cloud accounts. I have multiple paid Gemini accounts. Right. So one thing that I hated is to still use scheduled tasks. I had to switch off my pro account, which had the best, usage limits and the best features, and I had to switch over, to my team or my chat GPT plus account. But you if you are on any paid plan, you do have access to the new and updated chat GPT tasks.
Jordan Wilson [00:07:36]:
So, there are limitations. And if I'm being honest, I'm not a big fan of these limits because they're very limited. So I don't know. Maybe they found that people are really overusing these, within each task. I don't know. But they're kind of low if you ask me. So on the go plan, which is kind of the step, the paid, I think it's, like, 7 or $8 a month, you can schedule three tasks. If you're on the $20 a month plan, you can schedule five tasks.
Jordan Wilson [00:08:06]:
If you're on a team plan, you can do 10. And then if you are a pro or enterprise user, you can schedule up to 15 tasks. Alright. So let's look live. This one, the actual live version is not going to be as hands on as we might normally do on our AI, AI working Wednesday shows, just because so many of these things are gonna surface confidential, proprietary information. Right. So, I have some examples that I'm gonna show you some best practices when using chat GBT task. But normally, on our Wednesday shows, I tell you, oh, make sure to go to our website because we have the video version of this, and you're gonna wanna see the video version.
Jordan Wilson [00:08:49]:
This one, not as important. Right? But, we're still going to do this none, less. So let's go in live stream audience. Let me know if you can see my screen. That would be super helpful. Alright. But it's a dedicated URL that you can actually go and find these if you ever can't. Luckily, they're back on the Chad GPT sidebar.
Jordan Wilson [00:09:12]:
Before, they got taken away, and even when they were first introduced, they took away the sidebar. So literally, the only place that you could get there was the URL. So anyways, you can just go to chatgbt.com/scheduled, and it will show you all of your scheduled tasks. Or they do have a redirect because it used to be chatgpt.com/tasks that will redirect you to the scheduled tasks. Or if you go on the sidebar, it is back there. So, it's actually the fourth option down in your ChatGPT sidebar, which they updated, by the way. They updated this on the web and on mobile, and it looks really freaking clean. Alright? I wasn't a big fan of the old, kind of UX, of the ChatGPT sidebar.
Jordan Wilson [00:09:56]:
I know it's a very particular nitpicky thing, but now they went from maybe, like, third place to first place. It is really good. I do like, the new Google Gemini, kind of sidebar, but the I don't know what it is. It's super clean. Anyways, you on the sidebar, if you look for the fourth, kind of icon down, you can click schedule, then that's gonna bring you to all of your scheduled tasks. So I'll I've just been doing a lot of, I took out some of my normal ones. I'll put them back in, later. So just been doing some testing of some different features.
Jordan Wilson [00:10:26]:
But, essentially, you have a prompt box there, on the schedule task page that you can enter in a scheduled prompt, that will become a task. However, do not use this. Don't use this. It's a trap. Here's why. At least as of right now, you'll notice one thing that's kind of missing. You can't choose which model to use. Alright? And to me, that's a big no no.
Jordan Wilson [00:10:57]:
So in my testing, when you go to this scheduled, task page, It is a a minimal, you know, interface. It makes it very easy. But, you know, what I think OpenAI is trying to do is they're trying to make this as easy as possible. Right? They're saying, hey. Go in there. Just type a prompt. You use natural language. You don't have to configure anything.
Jordan Wilson [00:11:16]:
It's not like you're setting up, you know, if you've ever done any workflow automations or, you know, mapping things, you know, old school Zapier, n eight n make, etcetera, robotic process automation. None of that. It is a stripped out naked, prompt text box with nothing else. And to me, that's a big miss. So, I would not schedule tasks this way. You can go in and edit them and see what's running in the chat gbt.com/scheduled, but I would not put them in mainly because, well, you can't, have control over what model you use. Okay. So now I'm just back on the normal interface, and I just have a kind of a prompt setup.
Jordan Wilson [00:11:58]:
So this is an example of how you could schedule a task. So, I just typed in schedule a recurring task at 7AM every day that scans my Gmail. Okay? So one thing to talk and we'll see this as we go on and unpack this a little bit. It's all about stacking what you already have inside of chat g p t. So in this case, I have different apps connected to my chat g p t account. So if you're watching, you'll see the three that I'm referencing here are my connected Gmail, which indexes automatically, which is really cool, my Google Calendar, and my Google Drive. So when I'm reading out this prompt, you can probably see why this would be super helpful because, JCPT has access to all of this. And for a lot of busy people that live and die by their by their email, their calendar, and their storage, which is like me, you probably pre AI, would spend a lot of time manually going into all of these three places.
Jordan Wilson [00:12:58]:
So you could say, you know, your Outlook, your Outlook calendar, and your SharePoint, right, or Teams or whatever. Right? So now in the AI era, we were just pro, you know, reactively prompting because, you know, you'd go in here and say, hey. You know, I can at least have this prompt that would go in there. Now, it with task, it is proactively getting all of this and scheduling it. So you don't even have to do this every single day. Right? You set it up once with natural language. So, anyways, I said, schedule a recurring task at 7AM, every day that scans my at Gmail and my at calendar, to triage my day. Also, use Google Drive and research the web as needed to enrich and verify.
Jordan Wilson [00:13:44]:
Based on my chat history, here we go, and what you know about me and my priorities, suggest next steps, drafted email responses, projects to folk on focus on, etcetera. So I'm gonna go ahead and click enter there. Alright. So for our live stream audience, you'll see something if you haven't used task yet. It's gonna be a new ish interface, that comes up. You're gonna see a new little button that would normally not, go through. But, essentially, I can click here, see exactly, what chat g p t is doing. Right.
Jordan Wilson [00:14:15]:
So it's going through. It's, saying that I'm gonna go, you know, if you look on the thinking trace on the right hand side, which is for this, I chose extra high thinking, because if I'm not sitting in front of my computer, I don't want the g p d 5.5 instant doing this very important morning triage for me. Right? I wanna use the best model available. So you'll see here, it's going through. It's looking through all of these tools, and it's setting up this, scheduled automation. Alright. So we're gonna give that a quick second, and I'm gonna go back in to show you how to edit and check on these things. So, as an example, let me go ahead and do this one.
Jordan Wilson [00:15:00]:
Okay. So this is one just as a test. I said every day, every day at three. Let me go back. Here we go. So, I said every day at 03:02PM, create a schedule task that checks the stocks for Cerebras, NVIDIA, Google, SpaceX, and Meta, and create an interactive chart using writing bots, formerly canvas mode. So that was one of my schedule prompts. So there's you can hover over it, and you can either edit the actual prompt, and you can just edit it in natural language.
Jordan Wilson [00:15:35]:
You can also see the frequency. So right now, the repeat on this is custom. It runs daily. Right? And then it has a time there that I can go, and then you can put in end date. So maybe you only wanna run this. Let's just say you wanna run this every single day for three weeks or whatever. Right. So you can repeat this hourly, daily, on weekdays, weekly, monthly, or custom.
Jordan Wilson [00:16:02]:
Alright? And then you could set any time and any duration, and then you can edit it as you want. You can pause any of these as well because, like I said, depending on your plan, you only have a certain number of active, active runs or active scheduled tests. And then at any point, you can click on it, and then you can click, view conversation. So this is gonna keep all of this in the same chat thread, and that part is very important. Because if you are working on a project let's say you're managing a project, and every single day, maybe there's updates in, I don't, Slack and Gmail and HubSpot, etcetera. And you might wanna share that context. Right? So maybe every day, let's just say you're a project manager, marketing director, etcetera. And one of your big tasks or one of your big projects that you're working on, is, well, that one project, and it's driving everything.
Jordan Wilson [00:16:54]:
And every single day, you're going into your email and your Slack and your HubSpot, and you're checking all these things. Right? As long as you, number one, have access to use these apps inside of Chegg GPT, it's gonna automatically not only pull all of those things at the time that you schedule it, but it's also going to keep that context in mind as long as you tell it to in the scheduled prompt. Alright. But you'll see here at least in the results, you know, give me a nice, very minimalist chart here. Right? It pulled all the latest prices, for those companies that I that I was watching. So I do this a lot. I check on different AI stocks, right, that I might have in my portfolio, or I'm just curious on how the news of the day is impacting them. So this is something that I'll probably start using, you know, get a big list of all the ones that I care about, you know, tweak it so I get it to look just how I want, have it to run maybe, I don't know, two or three times a day, and then I can just go in and check.
Jordan Wilson [00:17:49]:
But having it in the same thread, like I said, is a big unlock as well because it's gonna keep all of that context in mind. Alright. So let's just quickly check over, on my triage. There we go. Alright. So it is scheduled. So it says scheduled daily command triage will run every day at 7AM central starting July 1. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:18:13]:
So let's go ahead, open the sidebar, go into scheduled. There we go. And there it is. There is my daily, command triage. And essentially, it took my simple prompt, and it expanded the prompt as well. So similarly, if you ever remember the, kind of conversational GBT builder where you could give it a very simple prompt and then it makes it much longer and much more detailed. Always make sure to go check that because it took my my little, you know, two and a half sentence prompt, and it turned it into, like, four paragraphs. But that's one of the reasons is I use that extra high thinking mode.
Jordan Wilson [00:18:54]:
So, obviously, before I start relying on this, number one, I would go in and click run now and check the results, so you don't have to wait until the scheduled time. But also, look on the right hand side and see the actual prompt that it used. Alright. So that wraps it for at least the live portion. Like I said, not doing a ton of things live, but I wanted to show you, some of the pros and the cons. But let's get back into the five secret chat gbt task shortcuts that you need to start using today. So number one, MCPs. So I actually have no clue when this happened.
Jordan Wilson [00:19:32]:
K? So about, when was this? The end of April, because I was actually in San Francisco, had a bunch of meetings, and I believe I chatted with a few OpenAI people, and this came up in passing. But I remember at least it was literally the last week of April. For whatever reason, MCP, access was not available, to people on individual paid plans. And suddenly, I looked at the developer blog. I looked at all these things. It said right. They said they gave access back in, October. They didn't.
Jordan Wilson [00:20:06]:
I was checking weekly, gave up at some point. But let's talk about the combination of tasks in MCPs and why this is really important. So if you don't know MCPs, that's model context protocol. This is essentially the glue that brings together, all of the different AI apps that don't have direct connectors. So, obviously, ChatGPT has a great selection of apps, but it doesn't have everything you need. But I would say most modern SaaS application or enterprise software has an MCP server. So, if you go into settings inside of your ChatGPT account, if you go into apps and then advanced settings, there's something new called developer mode. So developer mode in and of itself is not new.
Jordan Wilson [00:20:51]:
However, it was not worth using for a while because previously, when you enable developer mode, it actually disabled a lot of the basic features and functionality of chat g p t. Like, this was back in late twenty twenty five. I remember when you enable developer mode, it couldn't search the web. Right? So I don't know why if it was above, if it was a known thing, but they didn't really announce when they updated it. And that's number one. But number two, well, now paid plans. So if you are on the $20 ChatGPD plus or the $200 ChatGPD pro account, if you go into apps, or sorry, go into your settings, apps, advanced settings, you can now toggle on developer mode, which allows you to connect MCPs, which is huge. Right? So for me, small example.
Jordan Wilson [00:21:36]:
Right? I use BeHi for our email newsletter. There is no official app, for Chatt gbt, well or any, because a lot of what a lot of companies are doing now instead of, you know, trying to get an, an official integration, you know, with Chatt gbt and Claude and Gemini and Grock and Perplexity and all these other ones. Instead, they're just saying, oh, MCP, and then anyone can use it. Alright. But, Chatt GPT actually was a little behind. I think Claude led, in MCP, maybe Microsoft and Google, and finally, Chatt GPT caught up. So this is huge being able to use MCPs and tasks. So all of these services, right, I use dozens of MCPs, and now I can schedule them all in natural language.
Jordan Wilson [00:22:19]:
So I can just say, hey. Here's the eight different pieces of software that I go into every single day and check different metrics that don't have a direct integration in chat g p t, or I can mix and match them. Right? Here's the five, you you know, services, you know, like Gmail and Google Calendar and Slack and, you know, all these other things, plus these other ones that maybe are a little smaller or a little more niche. I can bring them all together with a new, developer mode MCP. Alright. Number two, the number two secret. Y'all quietly, apps are more agentic than ever, and that changes what happens with chat GBT tasks. Let me just rewind you back to, full 2025 when chat GBT tasks were first announced.
Jordan Wilson [00:23:03]:
I think it was, let me let me double check that. Chat GBT task First announced. I think it was back in September. Oh, no. I'm completely wrong. It was early early twenty twenty five. Alright. So back during that time, they were actually not even called, apps.
Jordan Wilson [00:23:25]:
Right? So they were integrations or connectors. Alright? But early on, right, when you could schedule all these tasks, right, like, a year ago, let's say, basically, they were write or sorry. Read only, and they were very limited in terms of what all of these apps could actually do. Now apps are getting more and more agentic with more and more read, write capabilities. It's a two way street. A good example well, do you know that if you're using the Gmail app, you can have it automatically send the emails, not just read them, not just manage your inbox and flag things, mark them as unread, you know, bulk, do all these different bulk actions. But, yeah, you can literally send emails without even clicking a button anymore. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:24:13]:
I don't let me just say this. I don't advise most people to do this. I'm just using this as one extreme example. Alright? So you could, in theory, let's just say, you manage an inbox that always gets the same type of emails every day. You could just create something conversationally that says, when you get this email, do this, and, yes, it can actually send an email. Alright. So apps are getting more and more agentic. Number three, you can practice for this super app.
Jordan Wilson [00:24:36]:
Yeah. This one is actually a secret. I posted about this. I didn't see anyone else. But, essentially, we all know that codex is the future super app, and OpenAI is doing a lot to kind of merge and bring chat, gbt, and codex together. One small little thing that happened last week, and this was actually a codecs update. So codecs updated, and its automations platform became a scheduled platform. And instantly, right, I actually had on my screen, I had my, my Mac Studio up virtually and then my MacBook Pro, and I updated one, and I was comparing them.
Jordan Wilson [00:25:10]:
And I'm like, oh, wait. This is definitely to prepare for the super app. Right. So now instead of having automations in codecs and scheduled tasks in ChatGPT, now they're both just called scheduled tasks. Alright? So this is merging and laying the groundwork and the foundation, I think, for eventually the super app to work a little bit more in merging ChatGPT's capabilities with codex's capabilities. So there you go. Talk about a secret. No one knows that.
Jordan Wilson [00:25:38]:
Well, except for the people at OpenAI. Alright. And for the, like, 10 people that follow me on Twitter. Alright. Number four, and this is a big one. Tasks work inside of projects now, which is great. So tasks have always worked with, like, check, like, deep research, and, you know, working with any files that you upload and all those things. But to be able to use it in projects is great.
Jordan Wilson [00:25:59]:
So it doesn't work with voice mode. It doesn't work with, custom GPTs, but you can work inside projects. So that means you can have, shared. Right? And this is big for teams because teams can share projects. So I just did this as an example. I created a a example project called the MBA test. I just put in custom instructions that said, make sure in every single response, say something about the NBA. And then my scheduled task inside this project was every day at 03:31PM, create a scheduled task to tell me one fact about LLMs.
Jordan Wilson [00:26:31]:
And then, you know, it did that. And then it said, think of it like an NBA player who has practiced millions of shots. They aren't consciously recalling every previous attempt. They've internalized patterns that let them make the next move more quickly and fluidly. So, that's huge. I'm a big fan of projects. I use them, you know, extensively in chat g b t and Claude when I'm working on the web. So now that tasks work inside of projects, big unlock.
Jordan Wilson [00:26:56]:
And then number five, last but not least, stacking memory. My gosh. Talk about the easiest way to get huge instant value out of chat g p t task without doing any work. So I did this little, prompt here. I said, now based on my chat history and what you know about me in my connected ChatGPT apps, please suggest 10 specific prompts that use one or more apps that I could run on a recurring basis as a scheduled task inside of ChatGPT. Make them copy and paste ready, including a placeholder at sign in front of the app like at Gmail take your time. And it went I'm not gonna show you everything because there's a lot of personal things in there. But my gosh, running this and I used, the, I think, pro or thinking high, it gave me some amazing ideas that were literally copy and paste ready for a bunch of these tasks that I maybe hadn't even thought of.
Jordan Wilson [00:27:47]:
Because the good thing about chat g b t's memory and cross chat history is it's connecting all the dots from all of these different chats that you may not even be thinking. So maybe you're using chat g b t all the time for its the same type of recurring task, and you just don't know it. So that's a great unlock. Those are the five secret shortcuts that you should start using today. So I hope this was helpful. Unraveling a little bit on chat g b t tasks so you know what they are, what's new, how they work, and the five secret shortcuts to use them today. So make sure, to share and repost this on LinkedIn, and I will send you the chat g b t tasks cheat sheet. It is great.
Jordan Wilson [00:28:25]:
It is in-depth and includes a checklist and 15 starter tasks for beginners to level up. Alright. I hope this was helpful. Thank you for tuning in. Please, if you haven't already, go to youreverydayai.com. Thanks for tuning in. We'll see you back tomorrow and every day for more everyday AI. Thanks, y'all.