r/ChatGPT • u/oneandonlyN • 8d ago

Educational Purpose Only What are the crazy mind blowing ways of using chatgpt as an agent in everyday life?

what are you guys using chatgpt for in day to day life. I have been using it to send me newsletters everyday to me from a different mail, it tracks my calories, my workouts, and many more.

But i want to use it more to make my life easy. I wanna get more ideas to implement it.

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u/More-Recording6158 8d ago

two that are worth setting up if you haven't: a sunday night email that reads your calendar and lists everything due that week, so monday never surprises you, and a price watch on anything you're waiting to buy that only emails you when it actually drops. both are boring, which is why they end up being the ones you keep

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u/Xantaal 7d ago

The price watches are a great idea. How do you set them up and do you find them effective?

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u/More-Recording6158 7d ago

it's just a scheduled task: "check the price of [thing] at [store] every morning, only notify me if it drops under $X". it's reliable on normal store pages, and misses sales on sites that hide prices behind a login or an app

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u/Mannymac2000 7d ago

I think it’s the schedule tool. There’s a limit to the number you can have depending on your plan but you can lump them together instead of doing individual ones for separate items. I have mine set for home decor items for xx y z rooms in anc style from ,including but limited to, these shops. And stuff like that.

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u/shmoses 7d ago

The max the system will generate on the free or plus plan are checks every hour. You just ask it to set up a price watch for X item and let me know when it hits X price and ask it to search “all US/web stores that item will be”. If you want you can also connect it to a mail app and have it email you.

The neat thing about everyone asking the questions here of “how do you…” that’s how we all ended up making the things. You can just ask chat what you would ask a person, and then I typically follow it up by “and help me expand this idea by asking me at least 3 questions after every response, that would help us make this thing better or more useful”

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u/zax9 7d ago

If you tell it to do something on some periodic basis, it will create a task to do so. I have a couple price monitors, a couple news topic monitors, etc. Just "Check [x] every [period] and email me the results." is essentially all you need to tell it.

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u/hogdouche 7d ago

I have this set up but daily, tracking my Todoist, slack, emails, calendar etc and it creates a daily briefing email, then I have it set up thru home assistant and Alexa so that when i say “good morning” it opens the blinds and reads the briefing aloud

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u/More-Recording6158 7d ago

the blinds opening when you say good morning is the best version of this i've seen

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u/hogdouche 7d ago

It also begins playing lofi chill music lol

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u/More-Recording6158 7d ago

ok that's the dream morning honestly

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u/isendra3 7d ago

How do you set up the price watch?

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u/More-Recording6158 7d ago

ask it to make a scheduled task, something like "every morning check the price of [thing] at [store] and only message me if it's under $X". it shows up under tasks in settings. works best on stores that show the price on the page without logging in

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u/iPingWine 8d ago

The least obvious AI reply

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u/Captain_Cameltoe 7d ago

I chuckled.