ChatGPT Tasks: what they do, the limits, and when you need a task board
By Andrei Finogeev, founder of Weft ·
ChatGPT Tasks are scheduled prompts: ChatGPT runs them later — once, on a schedule, or when something happens — and notifies you with the result. They live on the Scheduled page. They are good for reminders, daily briefings and “tell me when this changes”. They are not a to-do list: there are no columns, no backlog, no status, and you can keep only a handful active — three on Free, five on Plus, fifteen on Pro. For a list of work that you and your AI keep up to date, connect a task board to ChatGPT instead.
How many tasks you can have
| ChatGPT plan | Active scheduled tasks |
|---|---|
| Free, Go | 3 active tasks |
| Plus | 5 active tasks |
| Business, Edu | 10 active tasks |
| Pro, Enterprise | 15 active tasks |
What ChatGPT Tasks can and cannot do
What a task can be
A one-off or recurring prompt (“every weekday at 8, summarize my calendar”), or a monitoring task that searches the web or checks connected apps and only notifies you when something is worth reporting. Since August 2026, some tasks can also start from an event: a new Gmail message, a Slack channel message, or GitHub pull-request activity — not on Free or Go.
How often it can run
On Free, a task runs once or at most once a day. Paid plans can run tasks up to once an hour at exact times. OpenAI notes that unattended tasks may pause after a period of inactivity.
Where results arrive
As a push notification, an email, or both — set under Settings → Notifications. Push needs a task created in a ChatGPT mobile app. If Scheduled does not appear in the desktop app, OpenAI says to use ChatGPT on the web.
Sharing and teams
You can share a task as a copy; the other person gets an independent task, without your chat history, connected-app credentials or memories. Business and Enterprise also have team tasks that a team owns and its members can run, edit or pause. There is no assigning a task to a named person.
History
Scheduled tasks launched in beta in January 2025. In June 2026 OpenAI relaunched them around the new Scheduled page and retired Pulse, pointing people to a scheduled daily briefing instead.
ChatGPT Tasks or a task board?
Keep using Tasks for what they are built for: reminders, a morning briefing, a check that runs every hour. When you need a list of work — what is next, what is in progress, what is done, shared with a teammate or with Claude and Cursor as well — a task board connected to ChatGPT does that job.
| ChatGPT Tasks | Weft in ChatGPT | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A prompt ChatGPT runs later | A list of work with status |
| How many | 3–15 active, by plan | Free for 50 tasks; unlimited on Pro |
| Status and columns | None — a task runs or it does not | Backlog, Todo, Doing, Done, sprints |
| Who sees it | You (copies can be shared) | You, your team and every connected AI |
| Other AI tools | ChatGPT only | ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Codex and 30+ more |
| Mobile | Push notifications | iOS and Android apps |
Weft is in ChatGPT’s Plugin directory and works on every plan, Free included: say “add a task to send the invoice on Friday” or “what’s in Doing?”, and the board updates. The same board works in Claude, Cursor and Codex, and on the web and phone. Connect Weft to ChatGPT.
Questions
Were ChatGPT Tasks removed?
No. In 2025 some users found the menu entry missing and asked on the OpenAI forum; in June 2026 OpenAI relaunched scheduled tasks around a new Scheduled page and retired Pulse instead.
How many tasks can I have in ChatGPT?
Active scheduled tasks are capped by plan: 3 on Free and Go, 5 on Plus, 10 on Business and Edu, 15 on Pro and Enterprise.
Can ChatGPT keep a to-do list?
Not as a feature: ChatGPT has scheduled tasks and Projects, a place to keep related chats and files together, but no to-do list or board. You can keep one in a chat, but it lives in that conversation. To keep a list across chats and other AI tools, connect a task manager from the Plugin directory.
How do I connect a task board to ChatGPT?
Open Plugins in the ChatGPT sidebar, search for the task manager — Weft, Asana, Trello, Todoist and others are there — press Connect and sign in. Weft works on every ChatGPT plan, Free included.
Sources
Read on 11 November 2026.