You can schedule your day/week with ChatGPT and import it to your Google Calendar

[royal sorrel]

Do not use this to overwork yourself and give yourself a burnout

Check the schedule to see if it followed the request correctly.

[ Edit:

@wispy grotto mentioned that you can include the calendar into your google calendar (maybe other calendars as well) by asking it to produce the file in a CSV format and then going to settings then import. It seems like you can also modify existing calendar days but I did not test the result it gave. See my message below #1075832040177541200 message where I show the code it provides when trying to modify an existing day

Here is an example:

I want to code for 2 hours tomorrow and clean my house. I also need 3 hours to do an administrative task. Provide a schedule in a CSV format that could be used by Google Calendar. Include a Reminder for each event 30 minutes before the event occurs.

end of the edit ]

Example 1 : organize a day

Tomorrow I want to practice coding for 2 hours, try a new recipe, exercise, watch anime for 1 hour and work on my project for 2 hours. Provide a detailed schedule that would allow me to do that.

(see image)

Example 2: organize a week

Prompt :

Next week I am working everyday from 10 am to 7 pm. Make a schedule that will allow me to also work on projects "project A" (priority) and "project B" and propose some nice relaxing things to do during my free time in the schedule

Answer : (shortened due to a length constraint in the post)

(..text..)
Monday to Friday:

7:00 am - 8:00 am: Wake up, shower, breakfast
8:00 am - 9:30 am: Work on 

(....)

9:30 pm - 10:00 pm: Wind down and relax

Saturday:

9:00 am - 10:00 am: Wake up, have breakfast
10:00 am - 12:00 pm: Work on 

(...)

Sunday:

9:00 am - 10:00 am: Wake up, have breakfast
10:00 am - 12:00 pm: Work on "project B"

(...)

9:00 pm - 10:00 pm: Wind down and relax

(further text providing help)

I think it was politely telling me that I was lazy by giving me a schedule where I would work on the project for 2 hours twice instead of the 2 hours I asked.

[wispy grotto]

I did something similar. I asked it: what would the week in the life of a „hedonist“ look like. Then I asked it what would a week in the life of a „pragmatist“ look like. It gave me a full rundown of the calendar and every activity of a fictitious hedonist and pragmatist. Impressive.

Then I asked it: who has a better life according to this schedule.

[royal sorrel]

ChatGPT will also modify the schedule if you say for example :

Can you place the coding time slot in the afternoon instead ?

However, it can get confused when asked to place a specific time slot where something has to be done. After the initial prompt I asked it :

modify the schedule so that there is a 1 hour appointment with alfred starting at 2:30 pm, remove the anime so that I still sleep at 8:00 PM

But it placed the appointment at 2:00 PM instead of 2:30 PM.

I am impressed that it divided the 2 hours of coding in half and placed it around the meeting

[warped fern]

If you read the wording for the second 'work on the project details - it's clear this is actually 'heavily structured free time' of a sort, you're guided to use this time instead for anything else you didn't get done earlier in the day - with the strong suggestion that if you don't have any other greater unfinished task, 'the project' is where your attention should be.

the first project details, you're urged to have a clear goal for what you want to get done in that two hour time block.

[royal sorrel]

Indeed. It's impressive that it prioritized the project for the two hours of free time instead of something else on the list. Maybe that is just a coincidence.

Also impressive how it placed the anime in between for a break in case I do decide to continue working. That said, while impressive, placing anime in the middle of work is maybe not a particularly wise suggestion 😅 .

I am quite fond of this capability and I am looking into how I can program the schedule into a calendar app. Seems possible with google calendar

[Edit: the code below does not seem necessary as one can ask ChatGPT to produce a CSV file that one can import into Google Calendar. See Edit in the post.]

I have not tested it yet but it seems like ChatGPT can provide the code to enter it into google calendar. There is the whole setting up the API process that is required before

[warped fern]

Well, you gotta remember too, not every person needs the same patterns.

It's suggesting a framework, and as it said at the bottom of the first 'of course you can adjust the schedule as needed to fit your preferences ...'

It's heavily guessing that the one correction is all that's needed, with what it says on the revised schedule, but it is supposed to be confident it can help, so, good job it!

[coral dagger]

I'm super interested in this. I'm currently in a productivity course and updating my daily scheduling structures. I'd love to use ChatGPT for it.

[warped fern]

You can also ask the bot to work with you as a mentor or coach, and explain your situation and needs to it, the type of motivation style and encouragement you prefer.

Remember not to give too many details, especially nothing work proprietary or anything personal of yourself you really want to keep private even from researchers 🙂

[coral dagger]

Thank you for the feedback @warped fern , will let you know how it goes.

[warped fern]

Great! Remember that the bot has only so much memory. So if you want to work with it in one very long conversation, you may need to keep giving it summaries of what it and you are trying to do together as the conversation continues through many exchanges. It can be hard to tell when this is needed, but you'll get a feel for it - if 'it doesn't remember what it was supposed to be doing' then you waited too long to summarize, and adjust to offer summary a little more frequently.

Alternatively, you can do this as a series of one-shots where you start a new conversation, give the prompt asking it to help you however you want, then discuss whatever new motivation or issue you have/need.

It's great at both, probably easier to do the one-shots. But if 'coherent continuity' in your ongoing scheduling structures, if the feel of a consistent coach that refers back to previous events and can potentially use feedback on what works and doesn't work to try and fine tune with you is meaningful to you, you can try to use summaries to 'keep the conversation alive' longer than the tokens would otherwise allow.

[royal sorrel]

You can schedule your day/week with ChatGPT

I added a week schedule to the post

[wispy grotto]

Aren't there those little ICS files?

Maybe you can make it create those too!

Then you don't need to run any scripts. I was able to make it generate a MIDI file (in a code block, haven't tested the file yet), MIDI is somewhat of a binary format. Like it would literally give me back the hex codes or something.

It seems like you can als import CSV files into Google Calendar. Maybe that's easier if you explain it the format (or it knows it already)

[royal sorrel]

niice thank you ! That seems to work 😁 . I can even tell it to modify the previous calendar to place an alarm 30 minutes before

[wispy grotto]

amazing!

[royal sorrel]

super. Like no need to code or modify a bunch of hours. That could even be useful for an existing calendar that you export to chatGPT and ask it to modify maybe

[wispy grotto]

Can you maybe share what the format should look like, or what the prompt is to get a usable file?

[royal sorrel]

Prompt to modify an existing exported calendar in csv format (did not test but it looks reasonable from the original file)

modify the csv google calendar below to place an appointment with carl at 8 pm. Provide the csv in a code block:

Subject,Start Date,Start Time,End Date,End Time,All Day Event,Description,Reminder
Coding,2/19/2023,09:00:00 AM,2/19/2023,11:00:00 AM,False,Coding for 2 hours,30
Cleaning,2/19/2023,11:30:00 AM,2/19/2023,12:30:00 PM,False,Cleaning house,30
Administrative Task,2/19/2023,01:00:00 PM,2/19/2023,04:00:00 PM,False,Doing administrative task for 3 hours,30

[royal sorrel]

I edited the post to include the prompt where I mentioned you

I usually cannot include another photo on an existing post. I did not try again.

An example of the code it provides is included in the picture in my answer above

I did not check in detail the answer nor did I test adding it into my google calendar but the add appointment looks like it's there

You can schedule your day/week with ChatGPT and add it to your Google Calendar

You can schedule your day/week with ChatGPT and directly import it to your Google Calendar

You can schedule your day/week with ChatGPT and import it to your Google Calendar

[wispy grotto]

and can you do all of the events at once?

[royal sorrel]

What do you mean ? To create multiple events, to modify multiple events in a csv code made by chatgpt or to modify multiple events from an exported file from google calendar ?

I created multiple events at once and also made it add reminders to multiple events that chat GPT created. I did not try to modify multiple events from an exported google calendar file.

[wispy grotto]

yeah. that's what I mean because I think those ICS files you would have to import one by one.

[royal sorrel]

You mean for multiple days ? I only tried for hours in a single day

Let me try random days in a month in one file

[wispy grotto]

If you can train chatGPT to be your life coach? 🤔

[royal sorrel]

What do you have in mind ? Like an app where you choose your life goals and ChatGPT provides guidelines and a schedule to maybe increase your chances of achieving them?

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I generated 5 random days for the next 3 months and then asked chatgpt to provide csv code to set a reminder to jog for an hour at those days. It worked on google calendar.

Prompt:

Provide a schedule in a CSV format that could be imported to google calendar that sets a reminder to jog for one hour at the following times:{"Tue 28 Mar 2023 04:12:14", "Fri 12 May 2023 22:02:08", "Sun 30 Apr
2023 15:35:39", "Tue 9 May 2023 06:17:12", "Tue 7 Mar 2023 15:54:25"}

[wispy grotto]

cool!

[wispy grotto]

Yeah. I had a life coach once. But it was not cheap. They motivate you to improve, become more effective, see opportunities, or even just figure out what you want. They know the tools how to manage your time and so on... I mean I think you can literally tell it: Now be my life coach. But it won't remember anything between sessions.

So there needs to be some summary prompt that changes from week to week, depending on where you stand, that you can stick in at the beginning to keep chatGPT informed on whats supposed to go on.

Maybe your last prompt for the day should be: now summarize where we stand and what we did so far. Then the next day / week, you stick that text into a new session.

I mean, my life coach probably also never remembered more than 4000 tokens about me, lol. So chances are it might work.

Not sure exactly how you could structure a text such that it has high information density, but that it still "gets it". Would an ordered list of bullet points, or comma-separated individual words be enough so it understands the current situation? That would save a lot of tokens. So no place for "please" and "thank you" 😂

[warped fern]

Lol, and aww, and much sympathy

[warped fern]

If you WANT your life coach to talk to you a certain way, those words are actually some of the most important.

How about this, maybe in two totally different new chats!!!

1. overview, makes the schedules, doesn't need 'please'.

2. You go into depth, whatever desired, with the bot as life coach, and all it needs to know is what you're getting advice and coaching on 'this time'.

Can summarize for future interactions, or continue with the next interaction

[wispy grotto]

I just managed to explain my qualifications, my current situation, my personality and my future aspiration, and my current problems in less than 250 tokens. and it got it. It really got everything right. Like only lists essentially. No sentences. The advice as a life coach with additional extensive psychotherapy training 😜 was pretty decent, lol.

it also planned my day for me.

[warped fern]

When I first started to mess with ChatGPT, I wanted to emulate roleplay between two characters, one I had played in a roleplaying game, and the other another players... it took me about 2,000 words to get the other player's character right....

And less than 100 words to describe my character and get about 80% correct behavior choices for my character.

I was ashamed, I didn't realize I was playing a trope or something 😦

It's probably more my character was highly reactive and responsive with motivations pretty easy to describe. So it didn't instigate stuff much other than wander and observe, and it didn't have goals beyond 'try to get involved and make stuff better'. Still... I had thought it a rather unique and delightful character....

Until I saw how easily ChatGPT could play it with nearly no guidance.

[wispy grotto]

😂 . Yeah think about it. How many relevant tokens does a life couch really need to know about you. I mean how many tokens do you even know about your parents, or your best friend, lol. chatGPT can really work with very little, organizing your life, because it can make very plausible assumptions from missing data. I really want to see a full week calendar or something after it knows my strengths and weaknesses and my issues and my goals. 🧐

I think if you do a legit personality test (like the big 5) and give it the result, it will know how to interpret this and can probably already draw a lot of conclusions from it, that needs very few tokens and says a lot more than horoscope kind of stuff, or your political leaning, age, and profession. It will organize your life for you, you jut have to keep up to date with what it needs to know.

[warped fern]

It can sort of use the most recent schedule as a type of prompt for the future schedules. You risk losing rare events and uncommon goals. But most of us live a fairly consistent or even monotonous life. So a relatively few number of tokens, with the detailed schedules serving as reminders, works.

[warped fern]

Well, remember too, there's many scales. Most of us fall into the central distribution spectrum of what we want, how we problem solve, what we like. There are exceptions; most of those exceptions are also easy to characterize into 'typical members of a group, just a rare group'

Then you get genuine outliers; those MAY be lying about their traits and preferences, to appear not to fit into a common category, or they MAY actually be genuinely atypical. Consistency is how to evaluate that sort, probably; the liars are likely to tell stories with more holes 😛

But the bot might have to make a unique 'box' for a genuine outlier. The rest... can probably be served by one or a few standard offerings.

How different are most of us, really?

[wispy grotto]

I mean a real-life coach also has his toolbox that he more or less applies to everyone.

Amazing. It just organized a whole next week for me. 😮 Like by the hour.

[warped fern]

Are you happy with the plan?

[wispy grotto]

It's decent given what it knows so far. Definitely has more off time than I would have planned for myself. 😂 i guess it knows how much off time a human needs. We ourselves tend to be rather "optimistic" how much work we can get done. I also compressed my self description more by kicking out most non-nouns and non-verbs. It still gets it.

The cool thing is, you can like literally ask it: I am bored, give me some hobby ideas. I think if you would ask this to your life coach he would just roll his eyes. 😂 Like you can be much more basic with chatGPT because it's not a human that will judge you for the stupid things you say,

[warped fern]

Some humans are also very open to responding to that kind of request, but yes, the bot is kind 🙂

[royal sorrel]

😂

[royal sorrel]

I think it is possible in an app by just saving a short summary of each session and feeding the summaries to ChatGPT as a context in the next session.

As time goes by a summary of the summaries might be needed and so on. Seems fairly feasible

One drawback is that with an actual coach you have social and financial expectations to not mess up, not be late and do your best. This can be worked around by publishing goals and barcharts of progress (or regression) on social media to be accountable as I think some people do but could also lead to too much pressure .

[wispy grotto]

A good life coach will talk you through your stuff so that it makes sense that you do what you should do, and he tries to help you get rid of the anxiety. I never had the feeling with my life coach that I did his stuff only because it cost so much.

I also just asked chatGPT to compress the prompt as much as possible so that it uses the least amount of tokens, and that NO information gets lost and it still understands it. The result was quite remarkable. Was less than 50% my length. It like literally is just keywords now.

[royal sorrel]

I think how to enter progress would be the most important part. Few people want to enter text information into an excel table that show their progress. Building a habit can sometimes require making it easy. For example an automatic question and answer session before bed by smartphone/smartwatch/smart speaker.

the information is then parsed and reduced to points on a multidimensional state space (or a table haha)

[wispy grotto]

You can ask chatGPT for organization tools/software. it really knows a bunch and can pick a good one for you.

Like it DOES know brands and products.

[wispy grotto]

you can also use Gantt charts.

Maybe it can make one for you also...

Those are chats that show blocks and lines for the time organization of larger projects.

[royal sorrel]

Making two separate sessions, one detailed and personal and the other focused on just organizing and reaching goals seems like a good idea to manage the token limit

[wispy grotto]

There are lots of progress tracker tools for your phone

[wispy grotto]

yeah.

one is more like your personal assistant, or manager, the other one more like your psychologist.

[royal sorrel]

Adding a personality test sounds like a pretty good way to start getting a rough approximation to make suggestions. There are also AI calendars that apparently learn things about how long it takes you to accomplish tasks to estimate how much time it should place in your calendar.

[royal sorrel]

Nice yeah I think prompt compressions can be quite important for complex tasks that can require a lot of tokens if not compressed

[royal sorrel]

nice 👍 👍

[wispy grotto]

If you use this as a life coach or psychologist, you might as well program in a personality that you would resonate with a lot. Maybe you have some idol... some movie star. I am sure you can make your life coach then think and talk like this movie star or famous person you look up to. In addition, you can give it a more personal touch, like writing: "we are good buddies", or "My success is very important to you".

Essentially a famous person who is now your life coach and really cares about you on a personal level. Sounds like a dream. 😊

[royal sorrel]

I told it to provide code for a gantt chart and it provided a Python code with a module that it did not import. I told it a function or class was not defined and it fixed it. Here is the result.

[royal sorrel]

Sounds quite possible now that they can make pictures move and are learning to reproduce voices I think.

[wispy grotto]

I am pretty sure that chatGPT can do it. I have seen people make it talk in the style of a particular person, like Borat.

[wispy grotto]

I asked it for a timeline of learning how to trade, then I asked for a Gantt chart of it. This was the result:

[wispy grotto]

Now I asked it using python. It used the plotly library. When you hover over the bars, it will give you details. NIICE!

[royal sorrel]

nice indeed ! I am impressed it made a chart adapted to the problem at hand let alone that it included a hovering option

[wispy grotto]

The dates are unfortunately not the same as in the table 😕

[royal sorrel]

What was your query ?

[wide mesa]

Also works for generating Apple iCal (.ics) files for importing into iCal.

[royal sorrel]

Nice thank you for sharing 🙂

[lime quiver]

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