🎯 What you'll have at the endYou'll have a dot that quietly studies your connected apps and comes back a few times a day with one or two concrete ways to save you time, which you approve or ignore.

⚡ One-click install

Checked install pages (app stores, official sites and template pages): tap to get it straight away.

⬇️ Get ChatGPT on iPhoneApp Store ⬇️ Get ChatGPT on AndroidGoogle Play

🧰 Before you start

A ChatGPT plan that includes dots (Pro, Business Premium or Enterprise); still rolling out, so it may not show on every account yet
The ChatGPT phone app, desktop app or ChatGPT in a desktop browser
Decide which apps you're comfortable letting it read (e.g. calendar and email)

⏱️ Time needed15 minutes

💵 Rough costChatGPT Pro from about USD 100/month; your first dot is included

🪜 Step by step

🐣 Beginner mode: showing the 5 essential steps only. Extra steps are hidden; tap 🚀 Advanced at the top to see all 6.

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Create your dot
Open ChatGPT and choose dots. You can now do this in the phone app too. Give it a name and pick how it looks.
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Connect a few apps
Connect plugins (links to your other apps) such as calendar and email. Only connect what you're happy for it to read.
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Set the ground rules
Tell it what it may do on its own and what needs your OK. Dots have Custom Rules to allow, require approval for, or block actions.
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Give it the check-in prompt
Paste the prompt below. Ask it to confirm the schedule and your time zone (Malaysia, UTC+8) back to you.
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Reply to its suggestions
When it checks in, answer 'yes, do it', 'not now' or 'never suggest this again'. It learns what you like.
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Optional: tune it after a week
Tell it which suggestions helped most and ask it to focus there. If it's too chatty, change 'every 3 hours' to 'once a day'.
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💬 Copy-paste prompts

Tap Copy prompt, paste it into your AI (Grok, ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini), then replace the [yellow bits] with your own details.

💬 Improvement check-ins

Please keep looking through my connected apps and our past conversations for things that would make my work or life easier: repeated tasks, missed follow-ups, messy files, meetings that could be emails, bills or renewals coming up.
Check in with me every [3] hours between [9 a.m.] and [6 p.m.] Malaysia time on weekdays, with at most [2] suggestions each time. For each: what you noticed, what you'd do, and how much time it would save.
Don't send, buy, book, delete or contact anyone without my OK. If you have nothing useful, stay quiet. Please confirm this schedule back to me.

⚠️ Tips & common mistakes

Start with read-only apps until you trust its suggestions.
Some early users report dots mixing up separate pieces of work; keep each request clear and check its Activity list.
Pause the dot from its profile any time.

🌟 Why it's worth it

💡 Why it mattersMost people don't know what to hand over to an AI; this lets the dot spot the time-wasters for you, so you only have to say yes or no.

🏷️ Real exampleVaibhav Srivastav (@reach_vb), who posts dots updates for the team: 'ask your dot to proactively look for areas that will improve quality of your life/work and check in with you every x hours. works wonders'

🔌 Connects to:ChatGPTEmailCalendarFiles

📰 Found via X (Twitter): X post by @reach_vb: 'dots tip' ↗