Ep 810: ChatGPT Tasks: What’s New, How They Work and 5 Secret Shortcuts to Use Today

1 - > SPEAKER_00: OpenAI announced something about two weeks ago 2 - > that I think the majority of people overlooked. 3 - > They announced that they were sunsetting the proactive ChatGPT 4 - > Pulse feature and instead sending some of that compute and 5 - > those requests to the updated Chat GPT tasks. 6 - > And I think that for the most part, people overlooked this for 7 - > two major reasons. 8 - > Number one, I think hardly anyone was using Chat GPT Pulse.

9 - > I think those that were using it loved it. 10 - > Me, not so much, but you did have to be on the$200 a month 11 - > pro plan. 12 - > So I don't think a lot of people looked at this announcement and 13 - > cared because not a lot of people were using it. 14 - > And when they said, hey, instead we're getting chat GPT tasks, 15 - > well, those were rolled out last year.

16 - > So people just assumed nothing new to see here. 17 - > Let's move on. 18 - > But you are absolutely wrong because if you didn't read the 19 - > fine print, but don't worry, I do, you probably missed some of 20 - > the new features that OpenAI also included with the new Chat 21 - > GPT tasks and just some of the dev stuff behind the scenes 22 - > that's quietly been updated and maybe just not well documented 23 - > on OpenAI's website. 24 - > So we're gonna be going over that today.

25 - > I'm gonna show you exactly what ChatGPT tasks are, what's new, 26 - > how to use them, and give you my five secret shortcuts that you 27 - > can use today. 28 - > So here is the big picture. 29 - > Chat GPT tasks quietly got crazy powerful. 30 - > And like I said, I don't think enough people are using them.

31 - > Uh so earlier this month, ChatGPT announced the sunsetting 32 - > of Pulse, but the re-entry and updated version of ChatGPT 33 - > tasks. 34 - > So it's now easier to use ChatGPT tasks and they work in 35 - > more places, which is a big unlock. 36 - > And we're gonna get to that here in a bit. 37 - > And ChatGPT tasks, I think, if nothing else, they're a great 38 - > what I call gateway agent.

39 - > So if you've still been kind of turned off by codecs, as amazing 40 - > as I think it is, because you're like, oh, I'm not too technical, 41 - > or maybe if you don't have access to workspace agents 42 - > inside of ChatGPT, or if you haven't used those, well, start 43 - > using ChatGPT tests. 44 - > I guarantee you, if they gave it a different name and gave it a 45 - > button, this thing would have gone viral, but it's kind of 46 - > hard to find and it's not a lot of marketing around it, which is 47 - > why I think this is probably one of the most underrated features 48 - > in AI today.

49 - > So stick with me on today's AI at work on Wednesday show. 50 - > And here's what you're gonna learn you're gonna know what 51 - > tasks are, how they work, and the different ways you can use 52 - > them. 53 - > You're gonna know how to combine the best silent features of Chat 54 - > GPT with the updated task settings. 55 - > And I'm gonna give you at the end my five secret shortcuts 56 - > that no one is talking about, and you can use them today.

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78 - > But let's get into Chat GBT tasks. 79 - > Because, like I said, people didn't look at this. 80 - > And I do think that this is probably the most underrated 81 - > feature inside of Chat GPT because for non-technical people 82 - > who are maybe saying, Oh, I'm I'm not really big on the 83 - > Agectic Harness, I'm more of an old school chat GPT person. 84 - > Well, great.

85 - > Uh chat GPT, chat GPT tasks are definitely going to be for you. 86 - > So if this episode is helpful, make sure you check out the show 87 - > notes, find the LinkedIn URL. 88 - > We always put that every single day in the show note, repost 89 - > this, and I will send you the guide that we put together, 90 - > which is a banger. 91 - > I only do about two of these a month because they take a lot of 92 - > time to put together.

93 - > So we put together our Chat GPT tasks cheat sheet, which is a 94 - > practical checklist and 15 starter tasks for beginners to 95 - > level up with the updated Chat GPT tasks. 96 - > So you don't gotta pay anything, just go repost this and I'll 97 - > send it. 98 - > So here's what's new inside of Chat GPT tasks and a little uh 99 - > bit of a precursor on what they are from OpenAI's website. 100 - > They said we're making scheduled tasks easier to create and 101 - > manage in Chat GPT with a dedicated scheduled page, 102 - > improving task creation and editing flows, more flexible 103 - > scheduling options, and better notifications.

104 - > User can schedule one-off and recurring tasks and also ask 105 - > chat GPT to check for changes and notify them when there's a 106 - > meaningful update. 107 - > Uh, so like I said, they kind of tied in this uh task feature 108 - > upgrade with the sunsetting of Chat GPT Pulse. 109 - > Um, which, you know, like I said, I don't think a lot of 110 - > people use this. 111 - > I was actually super excited uh when ChatGPT Pulse was 112 - > announced.

113 - > It was supposed to be this uh proactive agent that just showed 114 - > up every single day. 115 - > There was a dedicated spot and the mobile app, and it was, you 116 - > know, based on your history, it was kind of like almost like a 117 - > news feed, right? 118 - > Of what was supposed to be helpful. 119 - > I didn't like it because I didn't think it was very 120 - > steerable.

121 - > I talked about it many times on the show, but uh they said we're 122 - > retiring pulse in the next 14 days. 123 - > This was from last week. 124 - > Uh, and they said, Why are you removing pulse? 125 - > So OpenAI said proactive work remains an important part of 126 - > making Chat GPT more useful.

127 - > With Pulse, we learned that proactive experiences are most 128 - > useful when they're personalized, action-oriented, 129 - > and steerable by the user. 130 - > We also saw a strong engagement with tasks after introducing 131 - > them in the pulse surface, showing that people uh showing 132 - > that people value having a dedicated place for proactive 133 - > work. 134 - > We're bringing those learnings back into scheduled tasks so 135 - > users can keep getting useful updates and recurring help in a 136 - > more focused experience.

137 - > So this I'm glad they actually are getting rid of Pulse because 138 - > the other thing is when they introduced Pulse, uh, if you 139 - > were on that$200 a month pro plan, they took away some of the 140 - > basic scheduling features of ChatGPT tasks. 141 - > So I have a lot of paid ChatGPT accounts, I have a lot of paid 142 - > Claude accounts, I have multiple paid Gemini accounts, uh, right. 143 - > So one thing that I hated is to still use schedule tasks. 144 - > I had to switch off my pro account, which had the best uh 145 - > usage limits and the best features, and I had to switch 146 - > over uh to my team or my chat GPT plus account.

147 - > Uh, but you if you are on any paid plan, uh you do have access 148 - > to the new and updated Chat GPT tasks. 149 - > So uh there are limitations, and if I'm being honest, I'm not a 150 - > big fan of these limits because they're very limited. 151 - > Uh so I don't know. 152 - > Maybe they found that people are really overusing these uh within 153 - > each task.

154 - > I don't know, but they're kind of low, if you ask me. 155 - > So on the Go plan, which is kind of the step, uh the paid, I 156 - > think is like seven or eight dollars a month, you can 157 - > schedule three tasks. 158 - > Uh, if you're on the$20 a month plan, you can schedule five 159 - > tasks. 160 - > If you're on a team plan, you can do 10.

161 - > And then if you are a pro or enterprise user, uh you can 162 - > schedule up to 15 tasks. 163 - > All right. 164 - > So let's look live. 165 - > This one, the actual live version is not going to be as 166 - > hands-on as we might normally do on our AI uh uh AI working 167 - > Wednesday shows, uh, just because so many of these things 168 - > are gonna surface confidential proprietary information.

169 - > Uh, right. 170 - > So uh I have some examples that I'm gonna show you, some best 171 - > practices when using Chat GPT tasks. 172 - > But normally on our Wednesday shows, I tell you, oh, make sure 173 - > to go to our website because we have the video version of this 174 - > and you're gonna want to see the video version. 175 - > Uh, this one, not as important, right?

176 - > But uh, we're still going to do this nonetheless. 177 - > So let's go in live stream audience. 178 - > Let me know if you can see my screen. 179 - > That would be super helpful.

180 - > All right, but it's a dedicated URL that you can actually go and 181 - > find these if you ever can't. 182 - > Uh, luckily, they're back on the ChatGPT sidebar. 183 - > Before they got taken away, and even when they were first 184 - > introduced, uh, they took away the sidebar. 185 - > So literally the only place that you could get there was the URL.

186 - > Uh, so, anyways, you can just go to chat gpt.com slash scheduled 187 - > and it will show you all of your scheduled tasks. 188 - > Uh, or they do have a redirect because it used to be chat 189 - > gpt.com slash tasks that will redirect you to the scheduled 190 - > tasks.

191 - > Or if you go on this sidebar, it is back there. 192 - > So um, it's actually the fourth option down in your chat GPT 193 - > sidebar, which they updated by the way. 194 - > They updated this on the web and on mobile, and it looks really 195 - > freaking clean. 196 - > All right, I wasn't a big fan of the old uh kind of UX um of the 197 - > ChatGPT sidebar.

198 - > I know it's a very particular nitpicky thing, but now they 199 - > went from maybe like third place to first place. 200 - > It is really good. 201 - > I do like uh the new Google Gemini um uh kind of sidebar, 202 - > but that I don't know what it is, it's super clean, anyways. 203 - > Uh, you on the sidebar, if you look for the fourth uh kind of 204 - > icon down, you can click scheduled, and that's gonna 205 - > bring you to all of your scheduled tasks.

206 - > So I'll I've just been doing a lot of uh I took out some of my 207 - > normal ones, I'll put them back in uh later. 208 - > So just been doing some testing of some different features, but 209 - > essentially you have a prompt box there um on the schedule 210 - > task page that you can enter in a scheduled prompt uh that will 211 - > become a task. 212 - > However, do not use this. 213 - > Don't use this, it's a trap.

214 - > Uh, here's why. 215 - > Um, at least as of right now, uh you'll notice one thing that's 216 - > kind of missing. 217 - > Uh you can't choose which model to use. 218 - > All right.

219 - > And to me, that's a big no-no. 220 - > Uh, so in my testing, when you go to this scheduled um task 221 - > page, it is a minimal interface. 222 - > It makes it very easy. 223 - > But you know, what I think OpenAI is trying to do is 224 - > they're trying to make this as easy as possible.

225 - > Uh, right. 226 - > They're saying, hey, go in there, just type a prompt. 227 - > You use natural language, you don't have to configure 228 - > anything. 229 - > It's not like you're setting up, you know, if you've ever done 230 - > any workflow automations or, you know, mapping things, uh, you 231 - > know, old school Zapier, N8N, make, etc.

, robotic process 232 - > automation, none of that. 233 - > It is a stripped out naked uh prompt text box with nothing 234 - > else. 235 - > And to me, that's a big miss. 236 - > So uh I would not schedule tasks this way.

237 - > You can go in and edit them and see what's running in the 238 - > chatgpt.com slash scheduled, but I would not put them in mainly 239 - > because, well, you can't um have control over what model you use. 240 - > Okay. 241 - > So now I'm just back on the normal interface and I just have 242 - > a kind of a prompt setup.

243 - > So this is an example of how you could schedule a task. 244 - > So uh I just typed in schedule a recurring task at 7 a.m. 245 - > every day that scans my Gmail.

246 - > Okay. 247 - > So one thing to talk, and we'll see this as we go on and unpack 248 - > this a little bit. 249 - > It's all about stacking what you already have inside of Chat GPT. 250 - > So in this case, um I have different apps connected to my 251 - > ChatGPT account.

252 - > So if you're watching, you'll see the three that I'm 253 - > referencing here are my connected Gmail, which indexes 254 - > automatically, which is really cool. 255 - > Uh, my Google Calendar and my Google Drive. 256 - > So when I'm reading out this prompt, you can probably see why 257 - > this would be super helpful because uh ChatGPT has access to 258 - > all of this. 259 - > And for a lot of busy people that live and die by their by 260 - > their email, their calendar, and their storage, which is like me, 261 - > you probably pre-AI uh would spend a lot of time manually 262 - > going into all of these three places.

263 - > So you could say, you know, your Outlook, your Outlook calendar, 264 - > and your SharePoint, right? 265 - > Or Teams or whatever. 266 - > Uh, right. 267 - > So now in the AI era, we were just pro uh, you know, 268 - > reactively prompting because you know, you'd go in here and say, 269 - > hey, you know, I can at least have this prompt that would go 270 - > in there.

271 - > Now uh it with task, it is proactively getting all of this 272 - > and scheduling it. 273 - > So you don't even have to do this every single day, right? 274 - > You set it up once with natural language. 275 - > So, anyways, I said schedule a recurring task at 7 a.

m. 276 - > Uh, every day that scans my at Gmail and my at calendar uh to 277 - > triage my day. 278 - > Also use Google Drive and research the web as needed to 279 - > enrich and verify based on my chat history. 280 - > Here we go, and what you know about me and my priorities, 281 - > suggests next steps, drafted email responses, projects to 282 - > focus on focus on, etc.

283 - > So I'm gonna go ahead and click enter there. 284 - > All right. 285 - > So for our live stream audience, uh, you'll see something if you 286 - > haven't used TAS yet. 287 - > It's gonna be a new-ish interface uh that comes up.

288 - > You're gonna see a new little button that would normally not 289 - > uh go through, but essentially I can click here, see exactly uh 290 - > what Chat GPT is doing. 291 - > Um, right. 292 - > So it's going through, it's um saying that I'm gonna go. 293 - > Uh, you know, if you look on the thinking trace on the right hand 294 - > side, uh, which is for this, I chose extra high thinking uh 295 - > because if I'm not sitting in front of my computer, I don't 296 - > want the GPT 5.

5 instant doing this very important morning 297 - > triage for me. 298 - > Uh, right. 299 - > I want to use the best model available. 300 - > Uh so you'll see here it's going through, it's looking through 301 - > all of these tools, uh, and it's setting up this um scheduled 302 - > automation.

303 - > All right, so we're gonna give that a quick second, and I'm 304 - > gonna go back in to show you how to edit and check on these 305 - > things. 306 - > So um as an example, uh, let me go ahead and do this one. 307 - > Okay. 308 - > So this is one just as a test.

309 - > I said every day, uh, every day at three, let me go back. 310 - > Here we go. 311 - > So uh I said every day at 3.02 p.

m. 312 - > create a schedule task that checks the stocks for Cerebros, 313 - > Nvidia, Google, SpaceX, and Meta, and create an interactive 314 - > chart using writing blocks formally canvas mode. 315 - > Uh so that was one of my schedule prompts. 316 - > So there's you can hover over it and you can either edit the 317 - > actual prompt and you can just edit it in natural language.

318 - > You can also see the frequency. 319 - > So, right now, uh the repeat on this is custom. 320 - > Uh, it runs daily, uh, right, and then it has a time there 321 - > that I can go and then you can put in end date. 322 - > So maybe you only want to run this, let's just say you want to 323 - > run this every single day for three weeks or whatever.

324 - > Uh right. 325 - > So you can repeat this hourly, daily, on weekdays, weekly, 326 - > monthly, uh, or custom. 327 - > All right. 328 - > And then you can set any time and any duration, and then you 329 - > can edit it as you want.

330 - > You can pause any of these as well, because, like I said, 331 - > depending on your plan, you only have a certain number of active, 332 - > um, active runs or active schedule tests. 333 - > And then at any point, you can click on it, and then you can 334 - > click uh view conversation. 335 - > So this is going to keep all of this in the same chat thread. 336 - > And that part is very important because if you are working on a 337 - > project, let's say you're managing a project, and every 338 - > single day, maybe there's updates in I don't know, Slack 339 - > and Gmail, and HubSpot, etc.

340 - > And you might want to share that context, right? 341 - > So maybe every day, let's just say you're a project manager, 342 - > uh, marketing director, etc. 343 - > Uh, and one of your big tasks or one of your big projects that 344 - > you're working on uh is well, that one project and it's 345 - > driving everything. 346 - > And every single day you're going into your email and your 347 - > Slack and your HubSpot and you're checking all these 348 - > things, right?

349 - > As long as you number one, have access to use these apps inside 350 - > of ChatGPT, it's going to automatically not only pull all 351 - > of those things at the time that you schedule it, but it's also 352 - > going to keep that context in mind as long as you tell it to 353 - > in the scheduled prompt. 354 - > All right, but you'll see here, at least in the results, you 355 - > know, give me a nice, uh, very minimalist chart here, right? 356 - > It pulled all the latest prices uh for those companies that I 357 - > that I was watching.

358 - > So I do this a lot. 359 - > I check on different AI stocks, uh, right, that I might have in 360 - > my portfolio, or I'm just curious on how the news of the 361 - > day is impacting them. 362 - > So this is something that I'll probably start using, you know, 363 - > get a big list of all the ones that I care about, uh, you know, 364 - > tweak it so I get it to look just how I want, have it to run 365 - > maybe, I don't know, two or three times a day. 366 - > And then I can just go in and check.

367 - > But having it in the same thread, like I said, is a big 368 - > unlock as well because it's gonna keep all of that context 369 - > in mind. 370 - > All right, so let's just quickly check over uh on my triage. 371 - > There we go. 372 - > All right, so it is scheduled.

373 - > So it says scheduled daily command triage will run every 374 - > day at 7 a.m. 375 - > Central starting July 1st. 376 - > All right, so let's go ahead, open the sidebar, go into 377 - > scheduled.

378 - > There we go. 379 - > And there it is. 380 - > There is my daily uh command triage. 381 - > And essentially, it took my simple prompt and it expanded 382 - > the prompt as well.

383 - > So, similarly, if you ever remember the uh kind of 384 - > conversational GBT builder where you could give it a very simple 385 - > prompt and then it makes it much longer and much more detailed, 386 - > always make sure to go check that because it took my my 387 - > little uh you know two and a half sentence prompt and it 388 - > turned it into like four paragraphs. 389 - > But that's one of the reasons is I use that extra high thinking 390 - > mode. 391 - > So obviously, before I start relying on this, number one, I 392 - > would go in and click run now and check the results uh so you 393 - > don't have to wait until the scheduled time, but also look on 394 - > the right hand side and see the actual prompt that it used.

395 - > All right, so that wraps it for at least the live portion. 396 - > Like I said, not doing a ton of things live, but I wanted to 397 - > show you uh some of the pros and the cons. 398 - > But let's get back into the five secret Chat GPT task shortcuts 399 - > that you need to start using today. 400 - > So number one MCPs.

401 - > So I actually have no clue when this happened. 402 - > Okay, so about uh when was this? 403 - > The end of April. 404 - > Uh, because I was actually in San Francisco, uh, had a bunch 405 - > of meetings, and I believe I chatted with a few open AI 406 - > people, and this came up in passing.

407 - > But I remember at least it was literally the last week of 408 - > April. 409 - > For whatever reason, MCP uh access was not available uh to 410 - > people on individual paid plans. 411 - > And suddenly I looked at the developer blog, I looked at all 412 - > these things. 413 - > It said, right, they said they gave access back in uh October.

414 - > They didn't, I was checking weekly, uh, gave up at some 415 - > point. 416 - > But let's talk about the combination of tasks and MCPs 417 - > and why this is really important. 418 - > So if you don't know MCPs, that's model context protocol. 419 - > This is essentially the glue that brings together uh all of 420 - > the different AI apps that don't have direct connectors.

421 - > So obviously, ChatGPT has a great selection of apps, but it 422 - > doesn't have everything you need. 423 - > But I would say most modern SaaS application or enterprise 424 - > software has an MCP server. 425 - > So um if you go into settings inside of your ChatGPT account, 426 - > if you go into apps and then advanced settings, there's 427 - > something new called developer mode. 428 - > So developer mode in and of itself is not new.

429 - > However, it was not worth using for a while because previously, 430 - > when you enabled developer mode, it actually disabled a lot of 431 - > the basic features and functionality of ChatGPT. 432 - > Like this was back in late 2025. 433 - > I remember when you enabled developer mode, it couldn't 434 - > search the web, right? 435 - > So I don't know why, if it was a bug, if it was a known thing, 436 - > but they didn't really announce when they updated it.

437 - > And that's number one, but number two, well, now paid plan. 438 - > So if you are on the$20 ChatGPT Plus or the$200 Chat GPT Pro 439 - > account, if you go into apps uh or sorry, go into your settings, 440 - > apps, advanced settings, you can now toggle on developer mode, 441 - > which allows you to connect MCPs, which is huge, right? 442 - > So for me, small example, right? 443 - > I use Bee High for our email newsletter.

444 - > There is no official app um for um chat GPT, well, or any, 445 - > because a lot of what a lot of companies are doing now, instead 446 - > of you know trying to get an uh an official integration, you 447 - > know, with ChatGPT and Claude and Gemini and Grok and 448 - > Perplexity and all these other ones, instead they're just 449 - > saying, oh, MCP, and then anyone can use it. 450 - > All right. 451 - > But uh ChatGPT actually was a little behind. 452 - > I think Claude led uh in MCP, maybe Microsoft and Google.

453 - > Uh, and finally ChatGPT caught up. 454 - > So this is huge being able to use MCPs and tasks. 455 - > So all of these services, right. 456 - > I use dozens of MCPs and now I can schedule them all in natural 457 - > language.

458 - > So I can just say, hey, here's the eight different pieces of 459 - > software that I go into every single day and check different 460 - > metrics that don't have a direct integration in ChatGPT, or I can 461 - > mix and match them, right? 462 - > Here's the five you know services, you know, like Gmail 463 - > and Google Calendar and Slack and you know all these other 464 - > things, plus these other ones that maybe are a little smaller 465 - > or a little more niche. 466 - > I can bring them all together with a new uh developer mode 467 - > MCP.

468 - > All right. 469 - > Number two, the number two secret. 470 - > Y'all, quietly apps are more agentic than ever. 471 - > And that changes what happens with ChatGPT tasks.

472 - > Let me just rewind you back to uh fall 2025 when ChatGPT tasks 473 - > were first announced. 474 - > Uh I think it was uh let me let me double check that. 475 - > Uh Chat GPT first announced. 476 - > Uh I think it was back in September of oh no, I'm 477 - > completely wrong.

478 - > Um it was early, early 2025. 479 - > All right, so back during that time, uh, they were actually not 480 - > even called uh apps, uh, right. 481 - > So they were integrations or connectors, all right. 482 - > But early on, right, when you could schedule all these tasks, 483 - > right?

484 - > Like a year ago, let's say, basically they were write or 485 - > sorry, read only, and they were very limited in terms of what 486 - > all of these apps could actually do. 487 - > Now apps are getting more and more agentic with more and more 488 - > read-write capabilities. 489 - > It's a two-way street. 490 - > A good example.

491 - > Well, do you know that if you're using the Gmail app, you can 492 - > have it automatically send emails, not just read them, not 493 - > just manage your inbox and flag things, mark them as on red, you 494 - > know, bulk, do all these different bulk actions. 495 - > But yeah, you can literally send emails without even clicking a 496 - > button anymore. 497 - > All right, all right. 498 - > I don't let me just say this.

499 - > I don't advise most people to do this. 500 - > I'm just using this as one extreme example. 501 - > All right. 502 - > So you could, in theory, let's just say you manage an inbox 503 - > that always gets the same type of emails every day.

504 - > You could just create something conversationally that says when 505 - > you get this email, do this, and yes, it can actually send an 506 - > email. 507 - > All right, uh, so apps are getting more and more agentic. 508 - > Number three, you can practice for this super app. 509 - > Yeah, this one is actually a secret.

510 - > I posted about this, I didn't see anyone else, but 511 - > essentially, we all know that codecs is the future super app, 512 - > and OpenAI is doing a lot to kind of merge and bring Chad GPT 513 - > and Codex together. 514 - > One small little thing that happened last week, uh, and this 515 - > was actually a codex update. 516 - > So Codecs updated and its automations platform became a 517 - > scheduled platform. 518 - > And instantly, right, I actually had on my screen, I had my um my 519 - > Mac Studio up virtually and then my MacBook Pro, and I updated 520 - > one and I was comparing them, and I'm like, oh wait, this is 521 - > definitely to prepare for the super app.

522 - > Uh right. 523 - > So now instead of having automations in codecs and 524 - > scheduled tasks in ChatGPT, now they're both just called 525 - > scheduled tasks. 526 - > All right. 527 - > So this is merging and laying the groundwork and the 528 - > foundation, I think, for eventually the super app to work 529 - > a little bit more and merging ChatGPT's capabilities with 530 - > Codecs' capabilities.

531 - > So there you go. 532 - > Uh talk about a secret. 533 - > No one knows that. 534 - > Uh well, except for the people at OpenAI.

535 - > All right. 536 - > Uh, and for the like 10 people that follow me on Twitter. 537 - > All right. 538 - > Uh, number four, and this is a big one.

539 - > Uh tasks work inside of projects now, which is great. 540 - > So tasks have always worked with like chat uh like deep research, 541 - > um, and you know, working with any files that you upload and 542 - > all those things, but to be able to use it in projects is great. 543 - > So it doesn't work with voice mode, it doesn't work with uh 544 - > custom GPTs, but you can work inside projects. 545 - > Uh so that means you can have uh shared, right?

546 - > And this is big for teams because teams can share 547 - > projects. 548 - > So I just did this as an example. 549 - > I created an example project called it MBA test. 550 - > I just put in custom instructions that said make sure 551 - > in every single response, say something about the MBA.

552 - > And then my schedule task inside this project was every day at 553 - > 3:31 p.m. 554 - > create a scheduled task to tell me one fact about LLMs. 555 - > And then, you know, it did that.

556 - > And then it said, think of it like an MBA player who has 557 - > practiced millions of shots. 558 - > They aren't consciously recalling every previous 559 - > attempt. 560 - > They've internalized patterns that let them make the next move 561 - > more quickly and fluidly. 562 - > So uh that's huge.

563 - > I'm a big fan of projects. 564 - > I use them uh, you know, extensively in Chat GPT and 565 - > Claude when I'm working on the web. 566 - > So now that tasks work inside of projects, big unlock. 567 - > And then number five, last but not least, stacking memory.

568 - > My gosh, talk about the easiest way to get huge instant value 569 - > out of chat GPT tasks without doing any work. 570 - > So I did this little uh prompt here. 571 - > I said, now, based on my chat history and what you know about 572 - > me in my connected chat GPT apps, please suggest 10 specific 573 - > prompts that use one or more apps that I could run on a 574 - > recurring basis as a scheduled task inside of ChatGPT. 575 - > Make them copy and paste ready, including a placeholder at sign 576 - > in front of the app, like at Gmail, take your time.

577 - > And it went, I'm not going to show you everything because 578 - > there's a lot of personal things in there. 579 - > But my gosh, running this and I used uh the I think pro or 580 - > thinking high, it gave me some amazing ideas that were 581 - > literally copy and paste ready for a bunch of these tasks that 582 - > I maybe hadn't even thought of. 583 - > Because the good thing about ChatGPT's memory and cross-chat 584 - > history is it's connecting all the dots from all of these 585 - > different chats that you may not even be thinking.

586 - > So maybe you're using ChatGPT all the time for the same type 587 - > of recurring task and you just don't know it. 588 - > So that's a great unlock. 589 - > Those are the five secret shortcuts that you should start 590 - > using today. 591 - > So I hope this was helpful unraveling a little bit on Chat 592 - > GPT tasks so you know what they are, what's new, how they work, 593 - > and the five secret shortcuts to use them today.

594 - > So make sure uh to share and repost this on LinkedIn, and I 595 - > will send you the Chat GPT tasks cheat sheet. 596 - > It is great, it is in depth and it includes a checklist and 15 597 - > starter tasks for beginners to level up. 598 - > All right, I hope this was helpful. 599 - > Thank you for tuning in.

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