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ChatGPT can carry out daily recurring tasks for you now – how to get started
Until now, ChatGPT has been a useful assistant, hoping to help at the command of a quick prompt. But what if ChatGPT could carry out tasks for you without even being asked?
ChatGPT Tasks
On Tuesday, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Tasks, a feature that lets users prompt the chatbot once to carry out recurring tasks in the future. For example, in the demo, a user asks ChatGPT to send them a work out reminder every morning along with a motivational speech.
Today we’re rolling out a beta version of tasks—a new way to ask ChatGPT to do things for you at a future time.
Whether it’s one-time reminders or recurring actions, tell ChatGPT what you need and when, and it will automatically take care of it. pic.twitter.com/7lgvsPehHv— OpenAI (@OpenAI) January 14, 2025
But Tasks isn’t just limited to reminders. Users can ask ChatGPT to do any task it is regularly capable of doing repetitively. For instance, you can ask it to pull specific information from the web every day and present it to you at a certain time, creating comprehensive news briefs, industry analyses, weather forecasts, social media trend tracking, and more.
Also: The five biggest mistakes people make when prompting an AI
For business professionals, I can see the feature being particularly helpful in streamlining daily communications, such as generating daily emails or briefs.
Karina Nguyen, member of technical staff at OpenAI, shared via an X post that her favorite way to use the feature is to check stock prices every morning. The prompt she used said, “at 10 am every morning check Apple stock and tell me the price.”
We’re excited to introduce Tasks! For the first time, ChatGPT can manage tasks asynchronously on your behalf—whether it’s a one-time request or an ongoing routine. Here are my favorite use cases:
1/ ChatGPT checks stock price every morning! pic.twitter.com/ce1sEodBwh— Karina Nguyen (@karinanguyen_) January 14, 2025
How to use Tasks
To use the feature, all you have to do is select “4o with scheduled tasks’ from the model picker. Then, you’ll enter a prompt, similar to the ones above, delineating what task you want done and the exact cadence. The tasks can be managed at a later date from the “tasks” bar in the profile menu.
Also: How I set ChatGPT as Siri’s backup – and what else it can do on my iPhone
OpenAI shares it is beginning to roll out Tasks in beta to Plus, Team, and Pro users globally over the next few days. Users will be limited to 10 Tasks per day during beta. At the time of writing this article, with my ChatGPT Plus subscription, I could already access the feature. OpenAI will collect insights and refine the feature before expanding to all users.
This feature is the first that OpenAI has put out that allows users to experiment with AI agents — AI assistants capable of autonomously carrying out tasks without being prompted every time. Although it is a baby step, it is exciting to see OpenAI begin exploring agentic AI, as it will likely be the biggest AI trend in 2025.
