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This episode provides a practical guide to a significant, recently updated feature within ChatGPT, offering actionable tips for users.
Ep 810: ChatGPT Tasks: What’s New, How They Work and 5 Secret Shortcuts to Use Today
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On this episode of Everyday AI, host Jordan Wilson explores the updated ChatGPT Tasks feature. He discusses its evolution from the now-sunsetted Pulse feature and highlights under-the-hood improvements made over the past year. The episode reveals new functionalities, usage limits based on subscription plans, and offers five practical shortcuts for leveraging Tasks, including agentic capabilities and developer mode.
ChatGPT Tasks are like a to-do list for AI. OpenAI recently made them much smarter, combining them with a feature called Pulse. This episode shows you how to use these improved Tasks to get more done with ChatGPT, including some clever tricks.
This episode is for users looking to maximize their ChatGPT productivity. It explains how OpenAI is consolidating features, moving towards more agent-like capabilities within ChatGPT. Listeners learn about recent upgrades to Tasks, which now absorb efforts from the Pulse feature. The discussion of usage limits and practical shortcuts offers actionable advice for both casual and power users, demonstrating how OpenAI is enhancing its core product for broader application.
- HostJordan Wilson
- Show: Everyday AI
- Episode Title: Ep 810: ChatGPT Tasks: What’s New, How They Work and 5 Secret Shortcuts to Use Today
- Length: 30 minutes
- Feature Update: ChatGPT Tasks absorbed efforts from the sunsetted Pulse feature.
- Content Focus: New features, usage limits by plan, and 5 secret shortcuts for ChatGPT Tasks.
Transcript ↗ Key moments and transcript search come with a later piece.
Here's a little secret: ChatGPT tasks are the Gateway Agent. 🤖
(And you've probably been overlooking the recent update that made them crazy powerful.)
About two weeks ago, OpenAI announced the sunset of its proactive Pulse feature and instead folded those efforts in an upgraded version of their previously released ChatGPT Tasks.
An d while most overlooked the actual new features in Tasks, it's actually the under the hood updates over the past year since Tasks were originally released that make it more powerful than ever.
Join us for AI at Work on Wednesdays as we share what's new and dish 5 secret shortcuts for Tasks you should be using.
ChatGPT Tasks: What’s New, How They Work and 5 Secret Shortcuts to Use Today -- An Everyday AI Chat with Jordan Wilson
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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
Timestamps:
00:00 Overview of ChatGPT tasks
05:06 New task scheduling features
06:55 Removing Pulse feature complaints
11:58 Scheduling tasks with AI integration
12:58 AI automating daily scheduling
16:54 Using Chegg GPT for stock updates
20:51 Updating developer mode functionality
23:25 App capabilities have evolved
26:56 Using ChatGPT to simplify tasks
Keywords:
ChatGPT tasks, ChatGPT scheduled tasks, OpenAI, AI automation, proactive AI, ChatGPT Pulse, scheduled task creation, recurring tasks, ChatGPT task features, ChatGPT task shortcuts, ChatGPT integrations, AI apps, model context protocol, MCP, developer mode, ChatGPT plus, ChatGPT pro plan, ChatGPT enterprise, workflow automation, Google Calendar integration, Gmail integration, Google Drive integration, project management AI, AI memory, context stacking, app connectivity, agentic apps, AI scheduling, team plan, custom prompts, ChatGPT sidebar, web interface, mobile interface, projects feature, advanced settings, notification improvements, automated daily summary, interactive
- Gateway Agent
- Jordan Wilson
- A feature that acts as an entry point to more advanced AI capabilities.
- Agentic
- Show Notes
- Relating to AI that can act independently to achieve goals.
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Questions people ask
- What happened to ChatGPT Pulse?
- OpenAI sunsetted the proactive Pulse feature and integrated its efforts into an upgraded version of ChatGPT Tasks.
- What are ChatGPT Tasks?
- ChatGPT Tasks are a feature that has been upgraded over the past year, now incorporating functionalities previously found in Pulse, and offering enhanced capabilities.
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