Igor Pogany shows how to use ChatGPT's Google Calendar plugin to automatically block 30 minutes for breaks after meetings longer than two hours. The plugin now works reliably and can scan your week ahead and act on its own, unlike earlier buggy versions.
ChatGPT just looked at my schedule, my calendar, found the best opening, and added a 30-minute break so I can relax and recharge. All right, now we're talking. I can go out there. No, seriously though, I didn't even open Google Calendar in this entire transaction. And these things were quite hard to achieve just a few weeks ago. You needed custom setups and da da da da da. Now ChatGPT is all you need, or Claude, that is. Okay, so this is what plugins can essentially do inside of the new ChatGPT Work, also in Claude Connectors. But today we're looking at ChatGPT Work because most people are using ChatGPT. And I want to open your third eye to what's possible with these AI tools because it's unbelievable. So here's the deal at its core. A plugin can teach ChatGPT a specialized workflow and connect it to an outside service. So you can basically be like, hey, you can see my Google Calendar now, just like my assistant or my phone or my own eyes when I open it. And You need to be inside of ChatGPT Work to do this. Okay. So once you have that plugin set up, you can, well, schedule, it can help me make changes, it can hop between other applications. You just need to be inside of ChatGPT Work for this. And I know many of you will know this already. But these capabilities, they've been getting better. And I wasn't a big fan of plugins. And now I kind of am. You tab over to ChatGPT Work, then you go to plugins down here, you say connect plugins. You can see already Google Calendar here because I selected it. But if you go to Connect Plugins, if it's not up here, you should be able to find it. You know, worst case, you go to Browse All Plugins. And then in here, well, very worst case, I have to search for it. So, you know, calendar, there you go, Google Calendar, click that, click the 3 dots. Okay, mine is already installed. But you know what, for you, just because I love you so much, I will deinstall this. Now I will install again. And you should see something similar this. Continue to Google Calendar. I select account with my main calendar. And then the beautiful thing is these permissions are only to access the calendar. It's not going to be looking at everything across Gmail, etc. That's a different plugin. But if you want to see it, you could click here and see what services you're giving to it. These are the 6. All right, I'm good with that. I'm going to click continue. And there it is. Now we're connected. I could try it and chat. And the way you do that, well, now it's already preset. But the way you would get to this from a naked chat is you need to use the add button. This is a bit different from Claude. So just say add calendar. There it is. This is how you would access it. Okay. And hey, if you're wondering what else you could do with ChatGPT or Workwell, I put together a PDF with the top 10 prompts that you could try today within there. And you can have it completely for free right now. First link in the video description. All right, back to the video. So now I could ask, what does my schedule look like? And for anybody who's been watching the channel for a while, you'll know I've been an avid hater of these connectors, these plugins. Because they just weren't reliable. You ask this type of question, and it was like, well, you actually don't have anything going on today. Or well, there's two events today. When reality there's three, and getting two out of three things is not good enough. They were not reliable. Okay. Now several things changed. The models changed. They reworked normal ChatGPT into ChatGPT Work that thinks a bit more, is a bit more thoughtful. The MCP standards underneath also changed, although I'm not even sure if this one is updated to the new one. The point is there has been several improvements. Improvements over time, where ChatGPT with Google Calendar login a year ago was bad, trash, unusable. I told you this straight up. I didn't used to recommend it. Now just gets it. It knows exactly where everything is. It can call multiple things. It used to be in a way that you could call one thing and get that reliably. But if you wanted multiple, messy. Final. Camera, bobo. Camera, bobo. Now you could do something like using voice input. Okay, every time I'm in meetings for more than two hours, put in a thirty-minute recharge block. Now, you'll notice that today's day has passed. But this is smart. This is ChatGPT work. And it thinks through the problem through a wider lens than you might have specified. That's how it is. It kind of plans for the problem and looks to resolve the entire category of work, not just this one instance. That's the product, okay? So as you see, it first didn't just look at my day that has passed, but it set up a scheduled task where it's like, okay, I'll review your Google Calendar for the upcoming 7 days. And whenever there's more than 2 consecutive busy meeting hours, I'll schedule a 30-minute busy calendar event titled Recharge. Okay. And it set the frequency to check every hour, which I think is totally overkill. But you know, good starting point. And then it just prompted itself essentially and continued and said, okay, recording Block Mastery, da da da da da, weekly. So now it didn't change anything because I'm already beyond all of these meetings. But it set up a scheduled task that should do this for my calendar. And this is the power of plugins. But together with scheduled tasks and work, it's just unbelievable. Like you could set up a few rules like this that just run your calendar. And let me show you, if I go here into scheduled, and then I would take this post-meeting recharge one that just got created. And I say run now here under the 3 dots. There it is. It's gonna do that for the entire week. And then I could change the frequency, right? I could say, hey, I want this to run once a week or once a day, maybe. There it is, edit them. And right there in my Thursday, we have the recharge block. These plugins work so well now that you should be thinking about your life in a new way now. Together with this ChatGPT Work product or Claude Cowork or whatever you might be using, You can set up a few rules like this for recurring problems that just solve this category of problem for $20 a month. And considering the fact that paid plans are roughly used by 1% of the working population on planet Earth, it's ridiculous to me that the edge you can get in terms of productivity and ease by eliminating all these annoying admin tasks, if you use this correctly, it's just an amazing opportunity. And I wanted to show you in this video, nice and easy. And finally, I'll say if you have a task yourself, that you set up some scheduled tasks for, a plugin that you use all the time, leave a comment below. I really want to use which ones you use. Let's learn from each other. Let's share the love and share the knowledge. And that's pretty much it. My name is Igor Pogany. I hope this was helpful to you and I will see you very soon.
