Plan daily schedules and household chores with ChatGPT
A parent of three uses ChatGPT to build schedules and weekly home maintenance and cleaning task lists.
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- What they did
- The poster uses the paid ChatGPT app as an all-day personal assistant, messaging it with what needs doing and having it turn that into rough schedules, meal ideas, work priorities, and reminders. They store reusable task lists under hashtags like #morning, #cleaning, and #work, ask for time estimates, first steps, and benefits, and had it build a weekly home-maintenance list from details about their home and car, then spread five-minute chores across the week.
- How it went
- They say the results have been super positive: they are more consistent with maintenance, feel less overwhelmed, and got closet-organizing projects framed as 1 hour 15 minutes total, capped at 45 minutes a day. The main limitation discussed is that highly broken-down lists can overwhelm some people, so they tailor outputs to minimum steps.
- Worth knowing
- They say they had been using it regularly for about a month and were paying for the latest app version, though they felt it was worth it just for this use.
Try it yourself with ChatGPT
Help me build a daily schedule and a weekly chore plan for my household of [number of people and ages]. My fixed commitments are [work hours, school times, activities], and the home tasks I need covered are [cleaning, maintenance, laundry, etc.]. Give me a weekday-by-weekday plan with each task kept to about [time per day] minutes, plus a separate monthly maintenance checklist.
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Source: Reddit · Oct 9, 2024
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