Tuesday Memo · 1 September 2026 · Issue 12
Three jobs you can put on a timer in ChatGPT
Most people use Ai by opening it, asking a question, and closing it again. Everything depends on you remembering to go back. Last week OpenAI changed that for free accounts. It landed on the same page as something much louder and much less useful.
One thing worth your time
Ai that turns up without being asked
ChatGPT will now run jobs on a schedule for free accounts. You get three active ones. Each can run once, or repeat up to once a day, inside a rough window: morning, afternoon or night. Exact times and hourly runs still need a paid plan.
Use one for a Monday plan, a Friday summary, or a nudge to chase unpaid invoices. You can share a task too, so someone else can copy it into their own account.
One prompt to try
Your Monday check-in, on a timer
Save this as a scheduled task, not a one-off chat. It arrives Monday morning, asks you three questions, and turns your answers into the week’s plan. Once a day is plenty on the free plan.
Every Monday morning, ask me these three questions, one at a time. 1. What did you say you would do last week and did not? 2. Who are you waiting on a reply from? 3. What is the one thing that must happen this week? Then turn my answers into a plan for [MY BUSINESS], five bullets at most.
Set it once. It will be waiting for you next Monday.
One thing to ignore
The Ai that logs into websites for you
The same update let ChatGPT sign in to some websites for you and keep working, in a mode called Work. The examples OpenAI gives are American admin: renewing a passport, booking a driving-licence appointment, checking medical costs on an insurance portal.
It needs a Plus or Pro plan. OpenAI says it will always ask you to confirm before anything consequential, like a reservation or a payment. So it is not quietly doing your admin. Get the free timer working first.
Three timers cost you nothing, so set one before this week gets away from you.
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