🧠How to use 3 criminally underrated ChatGPT features

🔥 3 Underrated ChatGPT Features!

🧠 1. Choose Your GPT’s Brain

You may not have noticed this — but now when you build a Custom GPT, you can choose which model powers it.

This wasn’t possible earlier. Whether you were using your own GPT or someone else’s shared one, you were stuck with the default brain.

Not anymore.

Now, you get to pick between:

• gpt-4o – fast, efficient, and the all-rounder with multimodal abilities (text, vision, voice)

•  gpt-o3 – stronger reasoning, ideal for dense or logical content

• gpt-o4-mini – fast, efficient reasoning at scale

🧠 And yes — you can switch models anytime later in the dropdown

🔌 2. Connectors: Give GPT a Day Job

Here’s the tea: Most GPTs are brilliant… and unemployed. They sit there, waiting to be prompted — when they could be running your day for you.

Think of Connectors as supercharged bridges that link ChatGPT directly to your everyday apps and data sources. Instead of just chatting with AI, you get ChatGPT to search, fetch, and work with your real files, emails, calendars, code repos, and more — all inside the same conversation.

🤔 What Can Connectors Do?

• Search your connected apps like Google Drive, GitHub, or SharePoint instantly during chat — no app switching needed

• Pull live data from those apps to help answer questions or generate summaries with up-to-date info

• Run deep research across multiple sources at once, perfect for complex projects, analysis, or reports — and get citations linking back to original files

• Sync and index select knowledge sources beforehand so ChatGPT can answer faster and more accurately

• Access custom connectors for your internal tools or special third-party apps (if you’re a developer or admin)

For example:

• “Show me last week’s product roadmap in Drive.”

• “Find the bug fix I worked on in GitHub.”

• “Summarize this month’s client emails from Gmail.”

And ChatGPT pulls those files or info right into the chat and even references the source for you.

How To Get Started Quickly:

• Go to your ChatGPT Settings > Connectors

• Pick the app you want to connect and sign in

• Open a new chat, click Tools > Search connectors or Run deep research

• Select your connected source(s) and start asking for live info right in chat!

🎥 3. Record: Teach GPT by Doing

ChatGPT Record Mode lets you capture audio — like meetings, brainstorms, or voice notes — and turn them into usable, editable summaries.
It's like hitting record on a convo and having GPT turn it into a project plan, email, or even code scaffolding.

All this happens inside ChatGPT’s macOS desktop app, and those recordings are saved as canvases (think smart notes that stick with your history). Even better? GPT can reference those recordings later to answer questions like:

Now your past convos aren’t lost — they’re searchable, smart memory.

🎯 Why It Matters:

With Record:

• You can focus on the discussion

• GPT does the transcribing and summarizing

• You get an editable breakdown as a canvas

• You can transform it into emails, docs, even dev-ready code

Basically: Talk once → reuse forever.

🔧 How to Use Record Mode:

1. Available only on macOS (Pro, Team, Enterprise, Edu users only for now)

2. Open the ChatGPT desktop app

3. Click the 🎙️ Record button at the bottom of any chat

4. Speak naturally — GPT transcribes live

5. Hit “Stop” when done

6. Choose to “Send” (to save as a canvas) or “Delete” if you change your mind

7. Ask GPT to rewrite the summary however you need (email, project brief, strategy doc, etc.)

💡 You can pause/resume anytime during recording
💡 Audio is deleted after transcription — GPT only keeps the summary (canvas)
💡 Each recording = one canvas, tied to your chat history

✨ Bonus: “Reference Record History”

If enabled, GPT can remember what was said in previous recordings and use it to give smarter responses in future chats.

Example: "What did I say about the Q3 budget last week?"

You can toggle this feature on/off in Settings > Personalization.

📌 Notes & Limits:

• Max recording = 120 minutes per session

• It's currently only available on macOS desktop app for Pro, Team, and Enterprise users.

• Audio files are deleted after transcription

• ChatGPT may not always get the transcription 100% right

• Works best in English (other languages = improving!)

🎁 Bonus: 4 GPT Combos You’ve Probably Never Tried!

So you’ve picked your model, connected your apps, and even hit record like a pro. Now what?

Let’s turn that power into actual builds you can use today. These are wild, helpful, and surprisingly fun:

🔍 1. Personal Research Analyst GPT
🧠 Model: gpt-4
🔌 Connectors: Google Drive, GitHub
🎤 Record: Talk through messy thoughts

How it works:
Rambling research idea in your head? Record it → GPT transcribes → pulls relevant docs → builds you a clean report with source links.

🗓️ 2. Content Sprint Buddy GPT
🧠 Model: gpt-4o
🔌 Connectors: Notion + Google Calendar
🎤 Record: Brainstorm your content vocally

How it works:
Speak your ideas → GPT maps out content themes in Notion → slots them into your Google Calendar with deadlines.

🧠 4. AI Memory Bank for Life Stuff
🧠 Model: gpt-4o
🔌 Connector: Google Drive
🎤 Record: Voice memos, gift ideas, reminders

How it works:
Record: “Mom loved that hand-painted mug from the gallery” → GPT logs it → weeks later: “What did Mom want again?” → Boom, recall activated.

👶 BabyGPT Build
🧠 Model: gpt-4o
🔌 Connector: Google Calendar + Notes
🎤 Record: Kid milestones, updates, medical notes

How it works:
Say: “James took his first steps today” or “Next vaccination is August 14” → GPT saves it, organizes it, reminds you when needed.

👀 ICYMI

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