ChatGPT Dots Is WAY More Powerful Than You Think

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Original video: ChatGPT Dots Is WAY More Powerful Than You Think · Channel: Riley Brown · 25:55 · Watch on YouTube

Topics: AI agents, Task and workflow automation, Software engineering with AI, AI models

Summary

Riley Brown describes using ChatGPT’s Dot, named Bluey, as a personal agent for administrative, coding, and marketing tasks. He demonstrates how voice mode, plugins, and a virtual computer let him delegate work during walks, including sending messages and starting Codex sessions. He also shows how Dot can create and update documents and websites, and how scheduled briefs and heartbeat automations can monitor connected information. Finally, he explains how iPhone Do Not Disturb settings can help limit notifications to important messages from Dot.

Key points

The creator presents Dot as a personal agent with plugins, persistent chat memory, a virtual computer, and access to a frontier model.
Voice mode lets him review priorities and handle tasks while walking, such as responding to emails and Slack messages.
Dot can start Codex sessions to make changes to an app, with the creator describing how it can run work locally or in the cloud.
He recommends learning the basics of Codex to give Dot clearer instructions for delegated coding tasks.
During voice chats, Dot can put links and task updates in the conversation, and can send emails on the user’s behalf.
Dot can create and edit documents in GPT spaces, including copyable prompts, images, and charts.
Dot can create hosted websites through GPT sites using content from a document.
Scheduled automations can deliver a daily brief based on connected integrations.
Heartbeat automations can periodically check information and notify the user when something important comes up.
Allowing ChatGPT notifications through iPhone Do Not Disturb can help filter other alerts and surface selected messages from Dot.

Chapters

Start	Chapter	Summary
00:00	What Dot is and why the creator uses it	Riley introduces his week using Dot and explains that his agent Bluey has plugins, memory, and a virtual computer.
02:34	Voice mode for everyday tasks	He demonstrates calling Dot from his phone to review Slack and send a message, then describes using voice chats to prioritize work.
05:08	Starting Codex sessions by voice	Riley asks Bluey to start a Codex task for an app feature and explains how Dot can delegate coding work.
09:47	Getting work done while walking	He describes brainstorming with Dot, choosing tasks, and completing practical work such as drafting and sending emails.
11:51	Adding links and updates to the chat	Dot finds product links, sends them by email, and posts the email details and a link in the conversation.
13:26	Creating pages and websites	Riley shows Dot creating and revising a GPT space page, then explains that it can also turn documents into hosted sites.
19:09	Daily briefs and heartbeat automations	He explains scheduled daily summaries and recurring checks that notify him when important information appears.
22:18	Filtering notifications with Do Not Disturb	Riley demonstrates allowing ChatGPT notifications through iPhone Do Not Disturb so Dot can surface selected alerts.
24:23	Recap and closing	He recaps the nine uses of Dot covered in the video and closes by saying he plans to revisit the platform later.

Quotes

I’ve been using Dot as my personal agent for seven days straight — 00:00

prioritize all the things that I need to do. — 04:38

the other morning I got 25 emails done just by walking around. — 10:18

if there’s something important, it will message me there — 21:47

you need to protect your attention. — 24:23

Concepts and entities

Dot, Bluey, ChatGPT, Codex, GPT Spaces, GPT Sites, OpenClaw, Native Note, Riley Brown, OpenAI

Full transcript (original language)

00:00 I’ve been using Dot as my personal agent for seven days straight to do administrative tasks, coding tasks, and many marketing tasks as well. And every day, I’ve used my DOT. I’ve grown to enjoy it more and more, especially because of voice mode. We’ve reached a point where I can go on a walk for 40 minutes with my headphones in talking to Dot. And when I get back, I’ve responded to all of my emails, Slack messages, and even planned my content script for the

00:32 day just by talking to Dot. And using Dot on voice mode is actually how I control codecs most of the time. And I’ve been using Dot for the past week. And I’ve written down the nine tips for getting the most out of Dot. So let’s pull those up. One of the strongest bits is showing the walk. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So we’re talking about the nine tips for using dot effectively. And the first thing that we actually need to do is we need to understand what dot is. So if

01:02 you go to your chat GBT desktop app or if you go to your iOS app, you will see a new feature up here at the top called dots. Once you’ve named your dot, it will show up as the name that you named your dot. And mine is Bluey. So, here is the iOS app for ChatGpt. Here is the desktop app for ChatGpt. You can see we have Bluey. I can click on Bluey. And here we can see our chat. So, the best

01:33 way to conceptualize this is Bluey is Riley’s or my personal agent with a virtual computer. It has all my plugins. It has all the skills that I’ve created in chat GPT. And it has a memory of the entire chat. And it is powered by a Frontier model. And that is really important. It is the first personal agent platform powered by a Frontier model, one of the best models in the world. When you are using the desktop

02:03 app, you can go up and click on Bluey. And here you can actually see your agent’s computer. This virtual computer right here is what allows it to basically do anything that a virtual employee would do. On this computer, you can download programs like Blender. I have Bamboo Studio, which allows me to create 3D prints, and I can actually print directly from my 3D printer. So, this is Bluey, and he lives on this computer that runs 24/7. And now that

02:34 you have a basic understanding of what Bluey is, I want to talk about the first tip for using Dots effectively, which is using it with voice chat. And so this feature is the most useful when you use it on your phone. And that’s why every single morning when I wake up for about 45 minutes, I go out of the house, open up my iOS app, and then I press this little button right here, which is this little phone icon. And this automatically calls your dot. Hey, how can I help?

03:04 >> Bluey, hey. How’s it going, Blueie? I I would love to kind of go over what I need to get done. Can we talk about what’s been going on in my Slack? >> Sure thing. Let me check that. So, for Slack, Emily’s given Lucer the remaining Revolute fixes. One logo over QR layouts, remove the other logo uses, and keep the disclaimer readable for 10 seconds. You promised another version tomorrow, so that’s the next review before resubmitting. That’s the most time-sensitive one I see.

03:36 >> Amazing. Make sure Lucer and Emily are told that good work on this in Slack. Please message that in Slack and then I will take a look at it tomorrow. >> Okay, I’ll send that in Slack. The message says, “Good work on this, Luker and Emily. Thank you. I’ll take a look at it tomorrow. It’s about to go out.” >> Thanks, Blue. >> You’re welcome. I’ll confirm it went through anytime, Riley. And so if you go in the chat GPT app on your phone or on the desktop app or the web app and you go to your plugins, you can see all of the plugins that you’ve installed. Every

04:08 single installed plugin that can be used inside codeex or normal chat GBT can also be used with Bluey. And you can imagine talking to a voice agent that has access to your plugins and a computer is a completely different experience. And so I’m able to ask something. I can go to my bot in the morning. I can wear my headphones on a walk and say something like, “Hey, Blueie, look at my email, my Slack, my calendar, every single thing that you know about me and prioritize all the

04:38 things that I need to do.” A quick list of five. I could say something like this. And this prompt right here starts off my 45minut session while I’m walking. And I just talk through everything. I’ll be like, “Hey, didn’t Jason say in the Slack thread that we shouldn’t actually do it and we should do it like this?” And then it’s like, “Oh yeah, let me check that. Yes, he did.” Okay. And then you kind of just go back and forth and then you could just ask it to create a document or ask it to send an email. But I’ll talk about that a little bit more in a future tip. Okay.

05:08 So now for the most powerful tip on this list, which is you can have dot spin up codec sessions. And so this morning I was actually doing this from my phone, but for this example, I’m going to show you how to do it on the computer. So you can call your dot on the computer. >> Hey Riley, what’s up? >> Yo, Bluey, I want to make some changes to one of my apps. You know how in Native Note, my internal tool and I have like an Excal clone in my internal tool.

05:39 When I create these little rectangles, I want to be able to make the colors on this tool like a background gradient. Like I want to be able to change the color to a background gradient. Can you create a new codec session and then add that as a color option for when I’m using this app? >> Okay, looking into that. Yeah, I’ll start a codeex task to add gradient fills to those rectangles and make sure they save and reload properly. >> Thank you. >> You got it. I’ve requested a separate

06:09 task for that change. So, the goal is you’ll select a rectangle, choose a gradient fill, and save it with the board. I’m still waiting on that to kick off. >> Amazing. Thank you. >> Of course. >> Okay. Okay. So, right now when I create one of these rectangles, you can see here this is my own version of Excaladraw. That’s this is my app that I’m running in my internal tool which I call native note. I can actually go home and this is my main dashboard. This is my library. We have an Excal clone. I

06:42 can tweet things out here. I have all of my topic opportunities, things that I can discuss. And then my YouTube analytics. This is my own personal internal uh tool that I use for my company and I created this Excaladraw board feature. And >> quick update, the task is running on your MacBook Pro. It’s adding the rectangle gradient option and testing, rendering, saving, and exports on a separate branch. >> Bluey, amazing. Thank you. Can you just put a little uh summary of what is going

07:12 on in that thread here in the chat? >> Sure, just a sec. Oh, it’s a quick status note on the gradient option, editable colors and direction, and save and export checks still in progress. >> Okay, so let’s talk about what we just did here. What I just did is I called Bluey and I just talked to him and you could do this. This is identical on the phone as it is on the computer. I started talking to it. I asked it to spin up a new codec session. I wanted to change something so that if I were to add one of these rectangles, I want to

07:43 be able to make a color gradient. This isn’t an actual feature I’d want to add, but I just want to show you that I can very easily just have it spin up a codec session to make the change. And it’s going to go do that. And here you can see that it’s working right here. Add native note gradients. If I were to click on this, here is the codeex session. Normally, if you click on it, it takes you directly to the chat. This right here is a codeex chat. This is very cool actually. You can just click on it and see it right here, which is very nice. I can click go to chat and here is the codec session. So it was

08:14 sent via Bluey. It has been working for two minutes. But instead of having to go to all of that, I can just very easily just talk to Bluey and Bluey will handle the codeex chats >> rendering saving mobile export checks. All passed. >> Amazing. So you It’s deployed. So you deployed it. It’s done. >> Yep. It’s live in Native Note now. >> All right. I’ll give it a check. >> Sounds good. >> Wow, Bluey, this is pretty cool. I just talk to you on the phone for a few

08:45 minutes. And now we have a working feature in our app. And I can do this from my phone, which is really cool as well. >> Yeah, pretty wild, right? Feels like the kind of thing you wish existed and then suddenly it just does. [snorts] >> Ain’t that the truth. And so that is really fun. It is really fun to be able to spin up codec sessions and you can actually specify whether they’re cloud sessions or local sessions and you can run multiple codec sessions at the same time and if you don’t know what I’m

09:16 talking about or you feel like this is actually pretty hard to code like you might not even be technical my advice to you is you should learn the basics of codecs. This will allow you to use dots even better because you’ll be able to very easily give dot instructions to spin up these codeex threads that can do literally anything and they can even control my MacBook that’s running right here. So in order to delegate with dot you should definitely learn how codeex works at least at a surface level. So my

09:47 third tip for using dot especially with voice is just to get things done. And so the way that I go on my walks when I start talking to Dot and I’m using voice mode, what I do is I go through multiple steps. I go through brainstorm steps and then I do a draft step where I say like I have it brainstorm all of my priorities and then I’ll pick one and I’ll be like I’ll be talking in my headphones and be like, “Hey, what can we hammer out right now? Like what could we do right now from me talking to you?”

10:18 And then it will suggest like, “Hey, I can do these three emails.” I’ll say, “Good. Let’s do the first one.” and it will write an email draft. And because it is connected to my plugins, it can actually send the emails. And so the ones that are like little emails that are just like quick communications that need to get done, the other morning I got 25 emails done just by walking around. And like I try to get my steps in. When I go for a walk, I think better. I I like I think everyone thinks better on a walk. And you can just do

10:48 your work while walking around talking to your AirPods. It’s one of the coolest things ever. And so I’ve been thinking about this a lot because I’ve actually been doing something like this for a long time, right? I will go and I will brainstorm. And when I get back, I will actually have things done instead of a plan. You know, back in 2025, you could talk to AI assistants and maybe they could have access to your email and when you got back to your desk, you just had a plan. Now, when you get back to your desk, you will literally have like 10

11:19 emails done. You will have written important document or at least have a draft for an important document done. The other day I was talking to my agent and I had like a 3D model created for this case that I’m building for a Mac Mini that’s going to be sick and you could just do anything while talking to your dot. It’s truly the most insane experience I’ve ever had while using an AI, especially while walking with AirPods in. And so the next tip actually involves getting things done. And the

11:51 fourth tip that I have for using dots is while you’re using voice chats, ask for dot to drop things in the chat. Let me show you what I mean here. So here I am talking to Bluey and watch what I do here. What I’m going to do is I’m going to press this button right here so I can actually see the thread and then I can have Bluey drop links in the thread. Check this out. Yo, Bluey, I really want to buy a new stand or for my MacBook, like a computer stand. I want to buy a

12:22 really nice one that kind of looks like Apple vibe. Can you drop a few links on Amazon in the chat here? >> Sure, I’ll find a few to drop in. Let me check real quick. >> Thanks for waiting. I dropped three Amazon links in chat. For your MacBook, I picked the silver design Mstand that has that clean Apple look. I also included an adjustable option, plus a separate stand for your studio display. >> Wow, this this is good. This is super useful. Hey, can you actually just send these to Emily uh via email and just

12:55 say, “Hey, can you buy one of these?” >> Sure, I’ll take care of that. >> Yeah. And then when you’re done with the email, just um put what you said in the chat thread here and send a link that I can view the email. >> Yep, I’ll do that, too. I sent it to Emily. I asked, “Can you buy one of these?” and included the three labeled options. The full email and a link to view it are now in chat. >> You’re the best, Blueie. Thank you. >> Oh, Pat help. Tell me if you want different styles or something more minimal. >> And so that one is a little bit smaller, right? You can just have things dropped

13:26 in the chat as you talk to it. So it can kind of be your little notepad, but you can also create much larger documents with a new feature inside the chat GBT app, which we’ll get to right now. So the fifth tip for using dots is use pages and spaces. So if you’re inside the chat GPT desktop app and you come up here to the top and you click space, this is OpenAI’s new version of Google Drive basically OpenAI space or GPT

13:56 space and I can very easily create a new page. So this is a document here. I can create a new document. I can very easily save things here and this is a lot like notion in a way and you can even create these like inline diagrams which is really cool and it’s just like a really cool notetaking app. Well, dot actually has access to this. So I can go back to my Bluey or my dot and I can very easily unmute the microphone and say, “Yo,

14:28 okay, so I want to prepare for the next wave of new AI models and I want to come up with like five prompts that I could really test a new AI model to show off how powerful it is. Can you please create a new page in GPT space called viral prompts and then yeah find hyperlinks to who used them and then include the entire prompt that I can very easily copy and add to an AI model I have access to. >> Okay, hold on. Let me pull that together. >> Yeah, if you could drop that link in the chat, I would love to open it up in the side view here while you work on it.

15:00 >> Sure thing. I’m putting that together now. I’ll use five source examples, each with a full copyable prompt and what to look for in the results. I’ll drop that page link here when it’s ready. >> Okay, so it just sent me this viral prompt. I’m going to go ahead and click. >> All right, the page link is in chat. Now you can open viral prompts alongside our conversation. The five prompts are there and I’m still finishing the source checks. >> Okay, so that’s pretty cool. For number one, you put I think you put it in code formatting. Can you make it prompt formatting and put it beneath the code

15:30 prompt? >> Let me take a look. Sure. I’ll add a prompt formatted copy beneath number one’s code block. That change is cute. The full first prompt in a prompt block directly beneath its existing code block. I’ll confirm when it’s saved. >> Oh, there you go. It created this prompt block. And so now if I were to actually share this with someone, I could easily share this link. >> Done. The first prompt now has a prompt

16:00 formatted copy directly beneath the code block. And I spot check that the text matches. And then if I were to send this page link to someone, I could very easily just click on this and it would actually enter it into the prompt here. And so it would it’s very easy to copy and paste this into the prompt because that’s what prompt formatting does is it immediately pastes it into the prompt. Now, I’m going to stop this because I don’t want to actually run this right now, but that’s what that does. Can you please add a little bit more inline charts,

16:33 especially at the top, which describes the five prompts here? And then each one should have an image from the internet, and then each one should have a little chart which explains what it does. And notice here, I actually fired a prompt to Bluey via text while on a voice call. It was muted. You can do that. and Bluey and it’s a very seamless experience. You can have a voice call >> from your chat. You’d like more inline charts at the top describing the five prompts, plus an internet image and a small what it does chart for each

17:03 prompt. I’m adding those visuals to the same page and keeping the prompts intact. I’ll update you when it’s saved. >> Thanks, Blue. Update me through voice and I want you to update me in the chat as well when you’re done. >> Okay, we’ll do. >> Okay, so it’s done. It gave us a little update and as you can see here, we now have images in the thread. We have charts in the thread. That’s how easy it is to get dot to create these sharable documents that get saved in GPT space. It’s pretty dang cool. And not only can

17:34 you create pages, you can also create sites. Remember, GPT sites is their own vibe coding platform kind of built in to ChatGpt. So inside chat GBT if you go to space you can also click on sites and these are all of the sites that I’ve created for various purposes and so these have a link you can visit them so they’re hosted you can add a backend a database and even authentication and you can very easily create these websites

18:07 and so I’ve created a ton of these websites that I’ve used for various landing pages for tracking things on the internet And here is a wait list for my Call of Duty game that I created. These are actually hosted on the internet. And all you have to do when you are talking to Bluey is tell it to create a site. And I could very easily say, hey, that document right there, I actually want to put that in a site that’s hosted on the internet that’s public. Can you please do that? And it will just do it. Now, I don’t want to wait for the agent to do

18:38 this. But as you’ll see here, Bluey will say, “Yep.” and when it’s done, it’ll literally send me a GPT sites link. He said, “Yes, I’ll turn viral prompts into a public website with the prompts, charts, images, and source links, then send you the URL.” So, it’s very easily to create these websites. And when they’re done, they will actually show up in space and in sites right here. And Bluey, my dot, is actually working on it right now. And you can see right here, it’s not published yet, but once it’s done, I’ll be able to see it. Maybe I’m

19:09 going to open this up later in the video once it’s done. And so for the seventh tip for using dots, we have a daily brief. So every morning I get this prompt sent to my dot automatically. And this prompt is a daily brief prompt. And so what this prompt does is this looks at all of my integrations and sends me a single document that analyzes everything. And one of the important

19:40 parts about this prompt is that it leads with the most important things. So I see the most important things first so I know exactly what I need to do every day. And so when you’re using Bluey, you can come up, you can start talking to Bluey. I’m going to go ahead and close this side panel for now. In order to create an automation, all you do is say, “Hey, I want you to create an automation every day at noon to tell me a funny joke.” And when you send this to Bluey, Blueey will automatically create an automation that will show up here in the

20:12 schedule tab. And then there’s this bluey drop down. So you have your normal ones, but then you also have your bluey or your dots automations as well. And so here is my morning brief automation that my agent reads every single day at 9:00 a.m. and then it sends me a brief based on all of my data. I wish I could show you one of these briefs, but there’s so much personal data I can’t actually show you. In the description of the video, I might put one down below that has one

20:44 that like kind of crosses out all of the personal information to show you how valuable it is, but it’s only valuable to me because it’s about my business specifically. And so I highly recommend getting your agent to analyze all of your plugins that you have on chat GBT and deliver you a daily morning brief. And we can actually see here that that daily joke one was created and you can very easily open it and you can edit it as well. So that’s how easy it is to create automations. It’s basically a prompt sent to the agent on a schedule. And for tip number eight for using dots,

21:16 we have creating heartbeat automations. These are very similar to automations, but they’re slightly different conceptually. Okay, so what a heartbeat is, and it’s a heartbeat is just an automation. This became really popular during OpenClaw, where your agent would just kind of wake up every 15 minutes or 30 minutes, whatever, and it would just check in on things and it would do things that are useful. That’s kind of what I wanted to do here. So every hour,

21:47 I found that if it does it more than every hour, it’s just not necessary. But you can set it to like I think as little as every 30 minutes, the agent will just wake up and it basically just analyzes everything that has to do with content. And if there’s something that I need to know about, it’ll just not do anything. It’ll just say nothing. But if there is something important, it will message me there, which is really cool. I can kind of set up with all of my integrations this kind of this layer where every hour everything is checked and I get notified

22:18 immediately. And so that’s what I mean by heartbeat. And this is really useful for me whether I’m on the computer or on my phone, especially because of the next tip that I have for you. So the ninth and final update is creating a do not disturb bypass on your iPhone. So, one thing that’s really cool about Bluey because I can set up this agent that’s like always checking for what’s important, I can have it send me messages. However, for most of the day,

22:49 I have my phone on do not disturb. Like right now, I have my phone on do not disturb because I’m making a video. I do not want to be messaged, but there are important things that I do want to see right now. And so, on your iPhone, you can actually set up a do not disturb bypass. So, if you go to settings on your iPhone and then if you just look up do not disturb and click on it here, what you can see here is you can actually set apps to bypass the do not disturb. So, these people can message me

23:20 while I’m on do not disturb and I will get notifications and then these apps will give me notifications. So, when I’m on do not disturb, the only app that sends me notifications is chat GPT. So that means if something really important is happening, only my dot messages me. And I’ve realizing that since it’s connected to all of my apps anyway, I can basically just prompt what notifications I see. If it’s only chat GBT and I only really use DOT, then I’ll just get notifications from Bluey. And so throughout the day, I’ll just get a

23:52 little notification. It shows Bluey at the top of the screen says this marketing thing, you need to get this done in the next hour. Super important things. And then I get no other notifications. And so I have found this to be incredibly useful to basically set up automations and and be very clear with Bluey, right? If you go to chat GPT desktop and you open up Bluey, you can literally just tell it. You can be like, “From now on, I only want notifications like this, that, or this.” And it will just message you the things in the chat

24:23 that are about very specific things. And so in the AI era, you need to protect your attention. And this is one really good way to do it. You have an AI agent that has access to a computer, all of your things, and it can filter through all that information for you, and it can only ping you with the really important things if you tell Bluey exactly what types of notifications you want. I have found that to be incredibly useful. So, those are the tips for the day. We’ve talked about a voice chat with Dot. Incredibly powerful. It’s the most realistic voice chat in the world. You

24:54 can have it spin up codec sections. You can actually do things instead of plan things, which is a completely different paradigm. During voice chats, you can have it drop things in the chat. Super useful, especially with links. You can have it create pages, the new OpenAI feature. You can have it create sites. You can have it do a daily brief through an automation. You can set in automation heartbeats, which are like check-ins. You can also go to the do not disturb settings and you can make it so DOT is one of the only apps that can send you notifications and you can kind of create

25:24 this filter between the outside world of notifications and you and you can specify exactly what you want to see which I find to be really useful. Anyway, thank you guys so much for watching this video. I really uh have enjoyed using this platform and every day I use it, I’m learning a thing or two. And so I think in a month or two I’ll do another video on it because I anticipate it’s going to get so much better in the next few weeks. And I’m excited to make another video. So thank you guys so much for watching. We’ll see

25:55 you here next time.