5 Hidden ChatGPT Secrets to Crush Your To-Do List

About this video

David shares five ChatGPT features. 1) ChatGPT Agent (Tools > Agent mode at chatgpt.com): it delegates multi-step research, browser action and coding tasks — booking reservations, finding products, creating slide decks, spreadsheets or data analysis — running 5 to 30 minutes in its own computer view; it rolled out to Pro plans at filming and was expected on all plans except Free by end of July 2025. In the demo it found a Manhattan restaurant for August 2nd in about 7 minutes; you must click Take Over to enter personal info yourself, and David warns never to give the agent a credit card, ID or sensitive data. 2) Deep Research (Tools > Run deep research), free in the demo: it asks follow-up questions, searches hundreds of websites and returns a cited report — the SUV-under-$30K example took about 6 minutes (up to 30 for complex reports); the free plan allows five deep research searches per month, higher plans 25 or even 250. 3) Connectors extend Deep Research and search to apps like Gmail, Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, Canva, Google Drive/Calendar and HubSpot; there are also search connectors, synced connectors (Google Drive only, requiring Pro or Team, indexing docs/slides/PDFs/text/markdown for faster search), and custom connectors (Pro/Team, code required) — his QuickBooks Online connector compared his income/expenses to donut-shop industry averages in 6 minutes. 4) Custom GPTs (Plus plan to create): build a reusable agent with a four-part framework — role, context, task, format — demonstrated with a Google Analytics 4 analyst GPT processing about 40,000 rows into top 10 and bottom 10 weekly purchase-change tables. 5) The free desktop app: press Option+Space on Mac or Alt+Space on Windows to summon ChatGPT anywhere, on Mac it can read the current window (e.g. Notion or a terminal) as context, and its beta Record feature transcribes and summarizes meetings or voice notes into a private canvas — at filming only on Pro and Team, best in English, limited to 2-hour recordings.

Key takeaways

• ChatGPT Agent can research, browse and act on multi-step tasks for 5–30 minutes, but enter personal details yourself via Take Over and never give it a credit card or ID
• Deep Research asks clarifying follow-ups and returns cited reports; free plan gets five searches per month, higher plans 25 or 250
• Connectors plug Deep Research/search into HubSpot, Drive, SharePoint and more; synced connectors are Google Drive only and custom connectors need code, both requiring Pro or Team
• Build Custom GPTs with a role–context–task–format framework, broken into steps, then iterate and double-check outputs before relying on them
• The desktop app’s Option+Space (Mac) / Alt+Space (Windows) shortcut and window-context reading speed up help anywhere; Record (beta, Pro/Team) summarizes recordings up to 2 hours

Episode details: published July 23, 2025 · 23:39 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kevin Stratvert’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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