ChatGPT’s New Features Change EVERYTHING! (ChatGPT Computer History & More)

Main updates/features highlighted (ChatGPT)

Computer history / “Computer access” context

• Full computer access (Desktop app):
  • Can edit files, run commands, and use network access.
  • Network access can be set to require approval instead.
• Auto-review/history:
  • Can be enabled by default.
• Computer history summaries:
  • ChatGPT can summarize what you’ve done across apps/websites.
  • Does not record screen/audio.
  • Examples:
    • “What was I working on before lunch?”
    • “What else should I have been doing based on what I was doing?”
• Controls & privacy:
  • You can pause/clear history.
  • You can exclude specific apps/websites (including sensitive categories like health/finance).
  • Example mentioned: excluding apps such as Bank of America.
  • History can be paused during communications with others (e.g., video conferencing/text messaging) unless you have consent.
• Setup steps (as described):
  • Desktop app → Settings
    • Enable full access
    • Enable auto review
    • Set default permissions
  • Integrations section:
    • Enable “let Chat follow your work”
    • Manage apps/websites
  • On Mac:
    • Permissions are handled via the OS prompt (e.g., drag/install/enter password as described).
• App shots:
  • Option to enable app shots so ChatGPT can capture visual/text content (including text scrolled off-screen) via a hotkey, then use it to help you.

Browser/password/contact/browsing history management

• Browser integration lets ChatGPT use a built-in browser and manage:
  • Passwords
  • Contacts
  • Browsing history (as stated)

Google Drive integration (edit/create documents)

• ChatGPT can connect to Google Drive to:
  • Create and edit docs and sheets
  • Work with additional Drive files
• Example workflow described:
  • Prompt ChatGPT to draft release notes in a Google Doc → the doc is created and can be opened/edited inside ChatGPT (no need for separate tabs).
• Setup described:
  • Desktop app → Plugins
  • Install the Google Drive plugin
  • Enable capabilities for Sheets/Documents for broader access
• Command support mentioned:
  • Can cover multiple file types (e.g., docs, sheets, slides).

Automations via scheduling

• Mentions using Workflows/scheduling to:
  • Set schedules in plain English
  • Have ChatGPT ask follow-up questions about timing
  • Then run tasks automatically

Prompting improvements: “prompt optimizer” + shortcuts

• Warns against relying on basic prompts alone.
• Promotes a tool (“My Prompt Buddy” / Chrome extension) that helps generate better structured prompts, including:
  • objective
  • task
  • knowledge
  • output formatting requirements
• Demonstrated example:
  • Producing a ~1,000-word well-researched blog post with a header image + images.
  • The optimized prompt improves the text and also generates image prompts to be used in the blog post.

OpenTable integration inside ChatGPT

• ChatGPT can search restaurants and check reservation availability via an OpenTable/reservations plugin.
• Example:
  • Find Italian/sushi options for a group in Bozeman next week
  • Rank top picks
  • Show reservation options
  • Create/handle reservations from inside ChatGPT

In-chat quizzes (interactive study)

• ChatGPT can generate inline quizzes and adapt difficulty.
  • Example: becoming an expert on AI agents in 2026
• Quiz behavior:
  • Multiple-choice questions
  • Feedback explaining correct answers
  • User can select wrong answers to see corrections
  • Difficulty can be increased (e.g., “make this harder” → advanced quiz)
• Supports uploaded materials:
  • Upload docs/spreadsheets/slides to create quizzes/modules that get progressively harder.
• Example of adaptive studying:
  • For an SAT math section, it generates a diagnostic to assess strengths/struggles and adjusts the study plan.

More flexible “where/how ChatGPT can run” & permission modes (desktop “New chat”)

• When starting a new chat, you can configure:
  • Plugins/tools available for that chat
• Computer action permission modes:
  1. Ask for approval (slower; prompts before actions)
  2. Approve for me (asks only on potentially unsafe actions or if full access is selected)
  3. Full access (user uses this most of the time, per the speaker)
• Where it runs:
  • On the local computer (read/edit local files), or
  • In the cloud (no local file access)
  • Cloud work can be controlled from mobile
• Mentions earlier setting:
  • Accessing the computer even when it’s locked, via mobile prompting.

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Key sources / main speakers

• Primary speaker (YouTube creator): The narrator presenting the walkthrough (referred to in subtitles as discussing “Chacht/ChatGPT” features), including demonstrations and personal recommendations (e.g., “I personally use full access most of the time”).