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Get a weekly family plan from calendars and email with ChatGPT Work
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ChatGPT Work built Graham Barlow a weekly family plan from calendars and email, and a Sunday task caught school events sent by email.
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Using my connected calendars and email, prepare a weekly family plan covering appointments, school or university commitments, travel, meals and chores. Set up a scheduled task to regenerate the plan every Sunday and alert me to any changes during the week.
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Before you start, ask me 1–3 short questions about the details below and wait for my answers. Once I've answered, confirm the plan in one line and run the whole task start to finish. Goal: Build a weekly family plan from my calendars and email and keep it up to date. Questions to ask me first: - Which calendars and email accounts should you read? - Who is in the family, and which school or work schedules matter? - When should the plan be sent, and how should changes reach me? Inputs (fill in or confirm): - Calendars: [CALENDARS] - Email accounts and senders to watch: [ACCOUNTS / SCHOOL AND CLUB SENDERS] - Family members: [NAMES AND AGES] - Meals and chores to include: [MEALS / CHORES] - Schedule: [DAY AND TIME] Rules: - Read only; don't send, accept or delete anything. - List where each event came from (calendar or email). - Flag clashes and anything that needs a form, payment or reply. - Mark events you're unsure about instead of guessing dates. Checkpoint: Show me this week's plan and the sources you used, and wait for my OK before scheduling it. If you get stuck: If you can't open a calendar or inbox, tell me which one instead of skipping it quietly. Verify before you finish: Check every event has a date, time and person, and that no school email from the last week was missed. Output: A day-by-day family plan with a short to-do list for the week. Done when: The plan arrives on schedule and changes get flagged.
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After connecting calendars and email to ChatGPT, Graham Barlow of TechRadar asked the new Work mode to prepare a weekly family plan covering appointments, school or university commitments, travel, meals and chores. A scheduled task regenerated the plan every Sunday and flagged changes during the week. Barlow found this the most useful of the life-admin tests, because it picked up school events that arrived by email and would otherwise have been missed.
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