The Rundown

In this guide, you will learn how to replicate ChatGPT Pulse (from the $200 Pro plan) on your $20 Plus plan. You will also learn how to use a lesser-known ChatGPT feature called “tasks”. Make sure to read the whole guide, there are hidden menus and counterintuitive setup steps.

Who This Is Useful For

• Anyone paying for ChatGPT Plus who doesn't hit their daily token limit
• Founders and marketers who want daily competitive intel without manually searching
• Anyone who checks the same news, markets, or topics every morning and wants it waiting for them

What 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 a schedule you set. No typing required once it's running.

What You Need to Get Started

• ChatGPT Plus ($20/month) or higher
• ChatGPT web app, desktop app, or mobile app

Step 1

On the $200 Pro plan, ChatGPT has a feature called Pulse. It proactively messages you each day with news and suggestions based on your chat history. You don't ask for it. It just shows up.

ChatGPT also has a feature called Tasks that's available on Plus. Most people don't know it exists. Tasks let you write a prompt that runs automatically on a schedule, even when you're not logged in. The output shows up in your ChatGPT conversation history like a normal message.

By setting up a few daily tasks, you get most of the same utility as Pulse for a tenth of the price.

Step 2

Open ChatGPT on the web, desktop, or mobile. Just 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. That's it. Tomorrow at 5 PM, you'll get a briefing in that chat without doing anything.

You can swap the topic for whatever you care about. Some ideas:

• 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.

Step 3

To edit or delete tasks, go to Settings > Notifications > Tasks > Manage Tasks. From here you can pause, edit the schedule, or delete any task.

Turn on push notifications for tasks and for the ChatGPT app on your phone. Ours didn't fire until we did that.

Pro tip: The Manage Tasks menu might not show up in the mobile app. We had to go to ChatGPT.com in the browser to find it.

Step 4

Your briefings will start arriving in the chat where you set up the task. Open ChatGPT in the morning and they'll be waiting for you. No typing, no searching, no prompting.

Going Further

You can have up to 10 active tasks at once. If you're like most people, you don't use your ChatGPT token limit each day. Tasks are a great way to put those unused tokens to work.

Some setups worth trying:

• Morning news stack. Set up 2-3 daily briefings on different topics (AI news at 7 AM, your industry at 7:30 AM, market moves at 8 AM) so you start the day informed
• Weekly competitor reports. One task per competitor, scheduled for Monday mornings. Covers news, product updates, and press mentions from the past week
• Connected services. If you've linked Gmail or Google Calendar to ChatGPT, you can schedule tasks that summarize your inbox or prep you for tomorrow's meetings
• One-off reminders. Tasks don't have to be recurring. You can schedule a single task for a specific date, like a reminder to follow up on a proposal next Thursday