Guides OpenAI published mar 10, 2026
This guide shows you how to recreate much of ChatGPT Pulse’s proactive briefing experience on a ChatGPT Plus plan by using ChatGPT Tasks. You will set up recurring prompts that run automatically on a schedule and deliver research briefings to your ChatGPT inbox.
You will build a set of recurring ChatGPT tasks that automatically research and brief you on topics you care about, delivered to your ChatGPT inbox on the schedule you choose. Once it is running, no typing is required.
The Manage Tasks menu might not show up in the mobile app. The source example had to use ChatGPT.com in a browser to find it.
ChatGPT Pulse, available on the $200 Pro plan, proactively sends you daily news and suggestions based on your chat history. You do not have to ask for it; it shows up automatically.
ChatGPT Tasks is available on Plus. Tasks let you write a prompt that runs automatically on a schedule, even when you are not logged in. The output appears in your ChatGPT conversation history like a normal message.
By setting up a few daily tasks, you can get much of the same utility as Pulse on the Plus plan.
Open ChatGPT on the web, desktop, or mobile app, then prompt it directly.
Create a daily, recurring task that briefs me on the daily stock market moves at 5 PM.ChatGPT will confirm the task and set the schedule. The next day at 5 PM, you will get a briefing in that chat without doing anything else.
You can swap the topic for whatever you care about. Try prompts like these:
Create a daily task at 7 AM that summarizes the top 3 AI news stories from the past 24 hours.Create a weekly task every Monday at 9 AM that searches for any news about [competitor name] from the past week.Create a daily task at 8 AM that gives me a 2-sentence summary of overnight moves in crypto markets.To edit or delete tasks, go to Settings > Notifications > Tasks > Manage Tasks. From there, you can pause a task, edit the schedule, or delete it.
Turn on push notifications for Tasks and for the ChatGPT app on your phone. In the source example, task notifications did not fire until both were enabled.
Your briefings will start arriving in the chat where you set up the task. Open ChatGPT in the morning and they will be waiting for you: no typing, no searching, and no prompting required.
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