Guide

Manage your tasks & workflows in Gemini Apps

Google · support.google.com

How to give Gemini an ongoing task on a schedule, such as watching prices or pulling cited research into a file, which is the monitoring half of competitor research.

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It answers 8 questions

  1. What should I hand to an AI agent, and what should I keep doing myself?
  2. How do founders get to inbox-zero with AI email tools (Superhuman AI, Gemini, Shortwave)?
  3. How do I brief an AI agent so it does the job I actually want?
  4. How do I set up an AI agent that works on a schedule or in the background?
  5. What can AI browsers like Comet, Claude in Chrome and Gemini in Chrome do on websites for me?
  6. How do I check what an AI agent actually did before I trust its work?
  7. How do I use AI for competitor research and ongoing competitor monitoring?
  8. How do I use AI to spot trends and emerging market opportunities early?

Read with it

  1. Mollick's way to decide when to delegate (your time against the time to brief and check) and the six questions a good brief... oneusefulthing.org Article Management as AI superpower Ethan Mollick (One Useful Thing)
  2. How to start a Work task, what to put in the request, and how Scheduled Tasks repeat a job or watch for changes. help.openai.com Guide ChatGPT Work and Codex OpenAI Help Center
  3. Step-by-step setup: eligibility, naming your dot, giving it tasks and reviewing what is in progress, scheduled and done. help.openai.com Guide Getting started with your dot OpenAI Help Center
  4. Lists what a dot may do alone, what needs your approval each time, and what it must hand back to you, such as moving money. openai.com Article How we build safety, security, and privacy into dots OpenAI
  5. What the merged Claude app can take on from any conversation, and how the Auto and Manual permission settings differ. support.claude.com Guide Claude Cowork and chat are one Claude Claude Help Center
  6. OpenAI's launch post: what a dot is, which plans get one, how approvals work and what counts against your usage. openai.com Article Introducing dots OpenAI
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