This New ChatGPT Feature Will Save You Hours Every Week

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Struggling to juggle deadlines, meetings, and to-do lists? You’re not alone. Now the good-old ChatGPT can help you with that also.

Introducing ChatGPT’s Task Feature, a game-changer that helps you schedule, automate, and manage recurring actions seamlessly. Scheduled tasks gives ChatGPT the ability to create tasks for itself to run later.

The natural language interface empowers users to delegate tasks to AI agents, such as researching news in your industry every day or even every hour.

Here’s how it works:

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🔔 Use ChatGPT Tasks for Daily Updates

1) Sign-in to ChatGPT

Go to ChatGPT’s official website. Scheduled tasks are supported on Web, iOS, Android, and MacOS.

2) Select ‘Tasks’ model

From the drop-down menu on the top of the screen, select GPT-4o with scheduled tasks.

3) Prompt your Reminder/Task

Tell ChatGPT in the prompt box about the reminder or the task it should perform, with a specific time and how frequently you want it perform that task.

Here’s a prompt example to get your daily news in the morning:

You can just setup a reminder for birthday as well:

Tasks can be triggered either at specific times (one-off or recurring).

4) ChatGPT will be do it’s work

These tasks are executed regardless of whether the user is currently online. Users are sent push notifications or emails when the task is complete.

Remember that you need to enable notifications on any of the mobile or desktop apps, from your Notifications settings on ChatGPT Web.

5) Manage Tasks

To open the scheduled tasks you have created, click on your profile icon and click on Tasks in the menu. You can edit, pause and delete tasks in this section. This section is only available in ChatGPT web right now.

ChatGPT has a limit on 10 active tasks at any time.

Note: This Tasks feature is currently rolling out now to users of the Plus, Pro, and Team plans only.

⭐️ Why This is Useful?

Here are some of the benefits of this AI tool:

• Automation of Repetitive Actions: Saves time by handling recurring tasks, reports, or content creation schedules.

• Proactive, Not Reactive: Tasks remind you, draft for you, and summarize data—all without waiting for a nudge. They send you a notification also when it’s done.

• Assignment Deadline Tracking: Avoid last-minute rushes and improve quality by starting tasks early.

• Reduced Mental Load: Eliminates the need to remember every small task or deadline.

• Data-Driven Insights: Helps analyze progress with automated summaries and reports.

• Time Optimization: Structures daily activities efficiently to maximize output with minimal effort.

Today, you've unlocked a new AI skill to level up your game! See you tomorrow.