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How to schedule tasks in ChatGPT

ChatGPT can run a prompt later or on repeat and tell you when it's done: a morning briefing, a weekly summary, a reminder. Here's how to set one up, keep it under control and stay within your plan's limit.

Updated 30 October 2026

These steps were checked against OpenAI's help pages on 30 October 2026. Availability depends on your account, app and app version, and labels may move as the interface changes.

Step 1: Create a task

1. Open ChatGPT on the web or in a supported mobile app.
2. Either go to Scheduled and create the task there, or simply ask in a chat. Say what to do and when: "Remind me every Friday at 4pm to send the weekly report", or "Tell me when tickets for this festival go on sale".
3. Check the confirmation ChatGPT shows. It sums up the task and its schedule, so this is the moment to spot a wrong time or day.
4. If your browser asks whether ChatGPT may send notifications, choose Allow, then approve it in the browser prompt.

A good task prompt is specific about the output: how long, which format, which sources or topics, and what counts as worth telling you. "Summarize the three most important AI policy stories from the last 24 hours in bullet points" works better than "news about AI".

Step 2: Choose how often it runs

• One-time: a single reminder or check at a set time.
• Recurring: daily, weekly and so on. On eligible paid plans tasks can repeat as often as once an hour and run at an exact time.
• Monitoring: ChatGPT checks for changes and only notifies you when something relevant happens. It can use what it found in earlier runs and stops once an end condition you set is met.

On the Free plan, a task can run once or repeat at most once a day, and runs in a flexible window such as morning, afternoon or night rather than at an exact minute.

Step 3: Turn on notifications

1. Open Settings > Notifications.
2. For tasks, choose Push, Email or both.
3. For phone alerts, create a task in the ChatGPT mobile app and grant notification permission when asked.

Step 4: View, edit, pause or delete tasks

All your tasks live on the Scheduled page. You can also reach it in two other ways:

• From Settings > Notifications, select Manage tasks.
• From a conversation, open the ••• menu and choose See scheduled tasks.

1. Open a task on Scheduled, or select the task title inside its conversation to open the task panel.
2. Edit the instructions or the schedule, or choose Pause to stop it for now.
3. Resume a paused task from the same place, or delete it when you no longer need it.

Deleting a task doesn't delete its chat. Deleting or archiving the chat, however, pauses the task.

Optional: tasks triggered by an app event

Instead of a clock, a task can react to activity in a connected app: a new Gmail message (optionally from a sender or with a subject), a new Slack channel message, or pull request activity in a GitHub repository. These run in Work and need a Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan.

1. In Settings > Apps, connect the Gmail, Slack or GitHub account.
2. Open Work and describe the event and what ChatGPT should do.
3. Review the Trigger, Condition and Prompt, and finish any authorization.

For Slack, add @ChatGPT to every channel it should watch. Event tasks can run up to 30 times an hour and 720 times a day in total.

Good to know

• Not supported: voice chats, GPTs and locked chats. Delete a chat's tasks, including paused ones, before you lock it.
• Approvals: if a task wants to send a message or change data in a connected app, it may pause until you approve the action.
• Desktop app: if Scheduled isn't there, use chatgpt.com in a browser.
• Sharing: anyone with a task link can read the full instructions, so keep passwords, account numbers and health details out of them.

If it doesn't work

• You can't create another task. You've hit your plan's active limit. Pause or delete a task, or wait for a one-time task to finish.
• A task stopped running. Look on Scheduled: it may have paused because it was inactive, needs your approval, or its chat was archived or deleted. For app tasks, check the app is still connected.
• No notifications. Check Settings > Notifications, then your browser's or phone's notification permission for ChatGPT.
• It runs at the wrong time. On Free, times are flexible windows. On paid plans, open the task and correct the schedule.

Keeping track of what tasks turn up

A daily briefing quickly becomes a pile of chats with follow-ups hidden inside. Workbranch, a separate AI workspace with answers from Google Gemini, keeps an inbox of chats by day and lets you flag items with due dates and reminders, so the things a task surfaces don't get lost. It has a 3-day free trial. For tidying ChatGPT itself, see how to organize ChatGPT conversations.

Sources

• Scheduled tasks in ChatGPT (OpenAI Help Center, checked 30 October 2026)

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