Ask your dot to keep looking for ways to make your work easier, and check in every few hours

🧰 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)

🪜 Steps (tick as you go)

1. ☐
   1. 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.

2. ☐
   2. 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.

3. ☐
   3. 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.

4. ☐
   4. 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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   5. 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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   6. Optional: tune it after a weekOptional extra

   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'.

💬 Prompts to copy

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.

🔗 Links

• X post by @reach_vb (source): https://x.com/reach_vb/status/2110367132727042057
• ChatGPT Learn: Get started with your dot: https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/dots/getting-started

From https://usecasy.com/use-case/dots-improvement-check-ins/ · Guide checked 16 October 2026 · Prices are rough and shown in USD unless stated (MYR where relevant).