How to use ChatGPT Work for everyday tasks

TL;DR

OpenAI announced that ChatGPT Work can take a team’s existing inputs—calendars, messages, emails, docs, dashboards, spreadsheets, trackers, decks, and discussion history—and generate a usable first version of artifacts like briefs, updates, memos, kits, reviews, or audits that the team can then inspect, edit, and put to work.

What ChatGPT Work does

ChatGPT Work is most useful when the work already has real context behind it. Instead of starting from a blank prompt, you give the Work agent the materials your team already uses and ask it to produce the first usable version of the artifact.

Typical source materials

The post lists the kinds of inputs that work well with ChatGPT Work:

• Calendars
• Messages
• Emails
• Docs
• Dashboards
• Spreadsheets
• Trackers
• Decks
• Discussion history

Typical outputs

From those inputs, ChatGPT Work can produce review‑ready versions of:

• Briefs
• Summaries
• Decks
• Workbooks
• Plans
• Process documents

How to prompt ChatGPT Work

To get a useful first pass, provide the source materials, any constraints, review expectations, and the desired destination format. Then ask ChatGPT Work for a first version that someone can actually use. After that, the team can check the evidence, refine the judgment, resolve open questions, and decide what needs to happen next.

Highlighted use cases

The announcement points to a section titled “Top ChatGPT Work use cases for everyday tasks” where users can find prompts that move from scattered inputs to concrete outputs such as daily briefs, weekly updates, decision memos, launch kits, financial reviews, or workflow audits.

Webinar note

An embedded webinar titled “Codex for everyday work” is referenced. A note clarifies that the webinar discusses an earlier Codex experience, but the workflows shown can now be completed with ChatGPT Work on chatgpt.com or in the ChatGPT desktop app.

Note: This webinar references an earlier Codex experience. The workflows shown here can now be completed with ChatGPT Work on chatgpt.com or in the ChatGPT desktop app.

Limitations of the source

The source does not provide version numbers, performance benchmarks, or quantitative metrics. It focuses on describing the workflow and typical inputs/outputs without citing specific results.