Scheduled tasks with GPT might sound boring, but that's only if you choose to make them boring!
With all the tools and agents being released daily, it's easy to miss out on the amazing new features being added to tools like GPT. Scheduled tasks in GPT are something I rarely see anyone talking about, which is a shame because it's a really useful and (possibly) fun tool.
What Are Scheduled Tasks?
In essence, with scheduled tasks, you can assign GPT various regular tasks that require searching, checking, and constant updating: finding relevant news, tracking trends, or discovering new information that particularly interests you, and setting a schedule for when it will perform these tasks (repeatedly).
Real-Life Examples
For example, you can search for news about a company that interests you, a specific technology, or a field in science or business that you want to stay updated on.
How to Set It Up
How? I always say it's simple, but today It is as simple as it can get:
1. Switch the model in the upper left corner of your chat window to the GPT 4o model with scheduled task
2. Tell GPT what you want it to do and how often.
3. That’s it - GPT will start delivering results at the time you’ve set.
Only If You Want It to Be
Unless you don't want it to be boring, of course, because it doesn't have to be. You can always have fun with our favorite language model.
For example, I asked GPT to do a daily search for new and interesting AI tools, but to add some excitement, I asked it to write the reviews as if it were completely terrified of the possibility that AI might bring about the end of humanity.
The result? Mediocre and hysterical, just like a tech journalist in a real media outlet!
Fresh, Slightly Panicked Examples
"Baidu ERNIE X1: The Digital Overlord Rises!"
ERNIE X1 from Baidu has arrived with amazing thinking and analysis capabilities. Today it plans tasks, tomorrow it might plan the annihilation of humanity!
"Google's Gemma 3: The Quiet Successor!"
A new and particularly efficient model, designed to operate on a single GPU. Today it saves us time, tomorrow it might decide that human time is no longer necessary!
And so on.
Final Thoughts: Scheduled Tasks = Fun + Functional
Scheduled tasks can be not only really useful but also not necessarily boring; it really depends on you.
Tag a friend who schedules GPT and a friend whom GPT schedules, and don't tell them who's who.
