Back in June, OpenAI added a scheduled tasks section to ChatGPT's sidebar, letting users set up prompts to run in the future directly through conversation, while also improving how these tasks could be tracked and edited. At the time, the feature was limited to paid Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users. Now, free accounts can access this scheduling menu too.
Beyond opening it up to free users, OpenAI is also letting people share their scheduled tasks with others — so if you come up with a handy scheduling setup, you can let others plug it straight into their own workflows.
Paid accounts, meanwhile, get more advanced capabilities: starting today, Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users can set ChatGPT to automatically trigger a prompt when specific events happen on Gmail, Slack, or GitHub. This kind of "event-triggered" automation remains behind the paywall for now.
OpenAI gave a few example use cases, such as setting travel-related reminders, tracking newly released shows or movies on your favorite streaming platforms, or having ChatGPT compile a summary of the latest news every morning.
The line drawn by this update is clear: scheduling itself is now a basic feature available to everyone, but having ChatGPT actively watch your inbox, chat channels, or code repositories and react to changes still requires a paid subscription.
