You probably know that the Chat GPT

desktop app has a built-in browser, but

most people don't realize just how

powerful it really is. In fact, it's

probably one of the most slept-on

features inside of Chat GPT. The more I

use it, the more I find automations and

workflows that were previously either

impossible or extremely difficult to set

up. In this video, I'm going to show you

everything you need to know about the

Chat GPT browser to master yourself. And

then I'll share 10 use cases ranging

from the simple to the mind-blowing.

Let's start out by opening up the Chat

GPT desktop app. I want to start by

showing you how the browser works and

all of its features. If you feel like

you've already got that down, I

encourage you to stick around anyway

because I may surprise you with

something new. But if you're confident

you know everything about the browser

and you just want the use cases, you can

skip around using the timestamps down

below. Once you have the Chat GPT

desktop app open, click on this icon on

the top right to toggle open the side

panel. And you may see two choices in

here. You may see files and browser, or

you may just see browser. Obviously, we

are going to click on browser to open

the browser. And this is it. I'm going

to click on this button right here to

expand it to make it larger and easier

to look at. And this is pretty much a

standard browser. So up here, you can

enter in any URL. You can open up

multiple tabs, and you can use the URL

up here as a search bar. And just like

with a regular browser, there's a back

button, there's a forward button, and

there's a refresh. If this is your first

time using the browser, one thing you

may want to do is click on these three

dots over here on the right, and then

click on import cookies and passwords.

And this can bring in your browsing

history, your cookies, and your saved

passwords from the browser that you were

using before like Chrome. You can just

select the correct Chrome profile, and

then click on import. So yeah, it's a

browser, but unlike a traditional

browser, this has Chat GPT built in. So

at any point, you You click down here

where it says work with ChatGPT. That

will expand it and you can ask ChatGPT

questions about the tab that you have

open, about all the tabs you have open,

or you can even ask it to take over your

browser for you and start clicking

around. There's also an annotation

button up here. So, if you click on

this, you can now select elements on the

page and ask ChatGPT questions about

those elements. And you'll understand

more what this feature does and why it's

useful when we run through some of those

use cases in a second. But before we do

that, we have to look at the browser

settings and change some things there.

So, to unselect the annotation, you can

click up here where it says annotating.

That will unselect it. And now we can

come into the settings by clicking on

our name on the bottom left and then

click on settings. And then on the left,

under integrations, select where it says

browser. Now, there are a lot of

settings here, but there are only a

couple that I suggest that you change.

So, first, make sure you have this

toggled on where it says let ChatGPT

control the built-in browser. Then, if

you want, under general, I have where it

says web URL and link open destination,

I chose ChatGPT. Because what that will

do is if ChatGPT in the chat sends you a

link and you click on it, it will open

it up in the ChatGPT browser. If you

don't want that, you can select your

default browser and then it will open

Safari or Chrome or Firefox, whatever

you use. But I like using the ChatGPT

browser for that. That way I don't have

too many windows open. I also do the

same thing for the next option, which is

local URL open destination. Down here is

an option for annotation screenshots. I

just showed you annotations, but if you

have this enabled, this gives ChatGPT

more context when answering your

questions. It does say that it increases

your plan usage. However, I found it to

be very useful, so I leave that one on.

Scrolling down, we have some settings

for auto fill and passwords and

downloads. if you want to change the

download location. But, the really

important thing is down here under

permissions. First, look at approval.

This is where you can choose whether

ChatGPT can open websites on its own

without asking for permission, or if it

should always ask for permission before

opening a website. You can make that

choice for yourself, and we have a

similar choice for browsing history. You

can choose if ChatGPT can always look at

your browsing history, or if it first

has to ask permission to access your

history. But, there are always these

specific site permissions that override

those defaults. So, let's say you're not

yet comfortable giving ChatGPT full

access to the web without it asking you

for permission. So, you would select

right here where it says always ask.

But, let's say there are a couple of

sites where you do feel comfortable, all

you have to do is click on add here, put

in the name of the website, and then

choose the rule for it. So, for this

one, I want ChatGPT to always have

access to facebook.com. Let's say I have

a schedule set up where every day it's

going through my Facebook feed and

looking for potential leads. I want that

to be done automatically on its own, so

I need to give it permission to access

Facebook all the time. So, that's why

I'm doing that here, and then I can

click on add. And so, even though

ChatGPT normally under these settings

has to always ask for permission before

opening websites, if the website is

facebook.com, it no longer has to ask me

for permission. So, what's great about

this is that you can get very granular

with the controls. I'm going to delete

this one and switch this back to always

allow though, cuz those are the settings

I prefer. Okay, so now that your browser

is set up and you have a general idea of

how it works, let's dive into some of

the use cases so you can get a better

idea of what you can do with ChatGPT

browser use. This first use case is

pretty simple, but it's worth

mentioning. You can use the ChatGPT

browser as a browser. And because you

can open multiple tabs and it stays

logged in for you between sessions, it's

a pretty capable browser, especially

because it has Chat GPT built in. So,

when you come across something like an

article that you want AI to summarize

for you, all you have to do is click

down here where it says work with Chat

GPT and type in your question like,

"Summarize this article." Now, usually

when I'm using the Chat GPT browser, I

like to switch which the model slider

down so it's a little bit faster because

I don't want a slow model when I'm

browsing the web or doing things. I want

it to work a little bit quicker. When

you have it in this mode where it's full

screen like this, you'll be able to see

your thinking and sorry, the model's

thinking and the answer by clicking on

this chevron right here and that will

open it up. You can see right here it is

reading the article and pulling out the

main points. So, this is all of its

thinking and then here is the summary.

But, if you don't like this where you

have to expand this up and down, you can

always click on the top right here where

it says restore panel width and then

you'll have the browser over here on the

right and the chat over here on the

left. And you can hover over the split

right here and hold it down to make

either side as big or small as you want.

Now, for this second use case, what I'm

not going to do is I'm not going to show

you how Chat GPT can fill out forms for

you because that's what everyone else on

YouTube demos. And I don't think it's a

very good demo because browsers already

have autofill built in and that's much

faster. But, there was a similar

situation that came up for me recently

where Chat GPT really was helpful. Every

year for my business, I have to file an

annual report with my state and every

year I forget how to do that. There's

some website I have to go to and I never

remember where it is. This year, I just

told Chat GPT to start the process for

me and to get me as far as it could

before I had to take over. And because

ChatGPT already knows a lot of

information about my business, it was

able to get me pretty far. Of course, I

didn't just sit and watch it do this. I

had this running in the background while

I was working on another task. So, that

taught me that if there's a task that

needs to be done online and I would

ordinarily ask ChatGPT how to do it,

what I really should be doing is just

asking ChatGPT to do it for me. Then,

while it's working, I can spend time on

a task that I actually do know how to

do. For this third use case, I'm going

to show you another task that you can

offload to ChatGPT. Talking to customer

support. So, let's say I purchased a

drill recently from Home Depot that I

want to return. What I'm going to do is

just ask ChatGPT to do that return for

me. Can you use your browser to open up

homedepot.com and open up the live chat

and return the drill that I recently

purchased, the email information, the

information about it's in my email, I

mean. And while it's working, you may

have noticed that I specifically told it

to open up the browser. I find that that

often helps to either say that or to say

use browser use because sometimes it

tries to do everything through plugins

and it doesn't realize or remember that

it has access to a browser. So,

sometimes using that language can help.

Now, as we are talking, you will see

right here that this little window pops

up. This is a preview of what it's

doing. So, even if you have the side

panel closed and you're not able to see

the browser, you always see a preview of

it right here. If you wanted to, you can

hide it, but to see the full thing, you

can expand the side panel right here.

And then, here is the Home Depot tab,

which it has opened. So, it already

accurately founded found the chat right

here and it clicked on start a return.

And now, Home Depot's asking for the

order number. It correctly pulled that

and pasted it in. It got that from my

email, and now it's off to you actually

do the return. So, that's again

something I can have running in the

background while I'm working on

something else, and if a problem comes

up, ChatGPT will let me know, and then I

can take over the browser and fix any

issues. But, I've used this already, and

it's already been able to return a bunch

of stuff for me, which is really nice

because, you know, that's something I

could sit and just watch and do myself,

but it's nice when it's just automated

and running for me. For this use case,

I'm going to show you two cool things

that I use ChatGPT browser for. First,

you can have it open multiple tabs for

you, and with that, it's really good at

helping you compare different products

when you're shopping for something. So,

let's give it a test right here. Hey, I

have a Starlink a Starlink Mini that I

want to attach to the top of my truck

camper. Can you find like four or five

different products that would do that? I

want ones that have good ratings and

that would be easy for me to mount. Pull

all of them up as separate tabs in the

browser. And here we go, it's getting to

work opening up all five of these or

four of these four or five of these

different tabs with the different

products. And hope you're seeing like a

little bit of a theme here, right?

Because in the past, we used to ask

ChatGPT how to do things, and then we

would follow those instructions, but as

long as you can do it on the web, you

should just be asking ChatGPT to do all

of it for you. And here, it's not only

gone out and done research like in the

past, we would just have a list like

this where we would have to click and

open all of them. We don't have to do

that anymore. It now opens up all the

tabs for us, and we can see all of those

right here. But, of course, it works the

other way as well. So, if you were doing

research on your own, let's say you

didn't want to ask ChatGPT to do the

research, and you just on your own found

all of these different options, you can

then come into ChatGPT here and say

something like, "Create a table

comparing the features of all of these

mounts." And it can look at all the tabs

that you have open when it's writing its

response. And there we go.

I mentioned before how ChatGPT will

usually try to use a plugin before it

uses browser use. And that makes sense.

It really should do that. But there are

some situations where it can actually

use both together in a way that's very

beneficial. Here, for example, on the

left I have opened ChatGPT, and on the

right I have opened the Notion app. This

is not inside of ChatGPT. This is a

separate app. And if you're not familiar

with Notion, it's basically a

note-taking app, and you can see one of

my notes right here. So, ordinarily what

most people do is they use the Notion

app and they work inside of here. And

then, when they want ChatGPT to work on

a document or page that they've created,

they use the Notion plugin, which you

can find just by doing the at symbol and

typing in the name of the plugin, which

is Notion.

And then, they have to describe what the

page is that they want ChatGPT to help

them with. So, I may say, "Can you find

the page called ChatGPT versus Claude in

my video database and edit it to make it

shorter?" But there's an easier way to

do this. So, let's full-screen the

ChatGPT app, and I will come over to

Notion on my browser. So, now I have the

same page open in the ChatGPT browser

instead of inside the Notion app. And I

can use this the exact same way. I can

come in here and make edits. And so,

instead of using the Notion app, I'll

start using Notion inside the ChatGPT

browser. That way, if I want ChatGPT's

help, all I have to do now is come down

to ChatGPT down here and say to it,

"Edit this to make it shorter." I don't

have to tell it to use the Notion

plugin. I don't have to tell it which

page I want it to edit. It has all of

that context because it's able to see

what I have open in the browser. And

what's great about this is that it's

going to use the browser for context,

but it's going to use the plugin to

actually take action because that's more

efficient. And you can see that

happening right here. It's editing the

Notion page using the plugin. And then

over here on the right, you can see it

made those changes. Use case number six

is one of my favorite little hacks. You

can have AI use AI. So here in the

browser, I have opened grok.com and I'm

signed in. I don't use Grok all that

often, but I do find that it's helpful

when I'm researching trending topics

because it has real-time access to

Twitter. So what I do, you know, is I've

set up a skill called Ask Grok. So

anytime I ask ChatGPT to do some

research for me on a topic, it knows

that in addition to doing its own

research, it will open up the browser

and also ask Grok to do research and

pull in the results from that and

include that in its full analysis and

the report that it makes for me. It just

makes it a lot more comprehensive. Now,

Twitter has an official API, which I

could probably set up, but this was just

a lot easier for me to set up. I didn't

want to have to learn how to set up the

API for Twitter or pay for it either. So

I just use this and it seems to work.

This seventh use case is kind of

similar. Let's say you want to use

ChatGPT with a certain app or tool, but

when you come over to plugins, they're

not available here or they're not

available on the free plan of whatever

app you want to connect with ChatGPT. A

lot of times, you can just use browser

use instead. So for instance, I'm going

to come over to LinkedIn. Here we go.

And even though LinkedIn has a plugin,

it's quite limited in what it can do.

And it can't do what I need it to do,

which is to really look through LinkedIn

and look through my feed and find new

leads because I'm thinking about

starting an AI agency. But, with browser

use, ChatGPT can do that. So, if I send

that along, it will start that task and

it will take over this browser and start

looking around for me. And there we go,

it's starting to scroll. So, basically,

this works for any website where you

need to be logged in to really access

the information that you want to see and

that you want ChatGPT to be able to use.

So, for example, I've seen other people

use this for online support forums. So,

ChatGPT could compile a list of all the

biggest complaints for the software that

the the online support forum is for. Be

aware, though, that doing something like

this does sometimes violate the terms of

service for certain websites. So, I just

wanted to give you that warning. Use

case number eight, I haven't actually

heard anyone else talk about this

before, but you can give ChatGPT its own

email address, its own VoIP if you

wanted, or really any chat service that

you can access online. So, in addition

to having its own email address, it also

has its own Google Chat reminders, and I

have it often send me messages on here.

So, I will sometimes tell it, "Hey,

start a task for me, and then when

you're done, message me." And it knows

that message me means open up the

browser, open up Google Chat, and send

me a message on there letting me know

that you're done. And the reason I do

this is because even though I sometimes

get notifications on my phone from the

ChatGPT app when it's done with the

task, I don't always get them. So, this

makes sure that if it finishes

something, I actually get alerted about

it. So, really useful, so I'm not

sitting in front of my computer all day

waiting for it to finish. I can walk

away, get a Google Chat message when

it's done, and I can come back and see

the completed task. Again, there are

other ways to do this, but this is fast,

it's free, and it's easy. This ninth use

case is really helpful if you like to

use ChatGPT to vibe code websites or

apps because you can open it up in the

browser, look at it, and tell ChatGPT

what changes you want to make using the

annotation tool. So, let me expand this

and let's say I don't like some of the

graphics here like how I hover over this

and it changes to orange. So, what I'll

do is I'll click on the annotate tool

and I will select those elements. So,

that's that one. And if I hold down

shift, I can actually select multiple

elements. Most people don't know that.

And then you can add the comment right

here. So, I'll say, "I don't like that

this switches from blue to orange." Then

if you click on enter, that will be

added to the chat, but if you hold down

command and click enter, that will just

be sent to ChatGPT. You can see it's

working down here and working on those

changes. And as it's working, what it

can also do is on its own after it fixes

those changes, it can take over the

browser and look at it itself to make

sure that it worked properly. If it

hovers over these elements and they

still turn orange, it'll know that it

didn't fix it properly and it'll go back

and fix it. And finally, ChatGPT's

browser use is excellent for timing

online bookings. For example, I want to

reserve a campsite at Rocky Mountain

National Park. Some of these more ideal

campsites though can be pretty hard to

get. So, I'll just have ChatGPT take

care of it for me. Find out when Rocky

Mountain National Park opens up

reservations for their campsites. Then

schedule a task so right when the

availability right when the campsite

becomes available for the weekend of

September 18th, you come into the

website and reserve a campsite for me.

And now, instead of sitting at the

computer waiting for those campsites to

become available myself, ChatGPT is just

going to handle it for me. So, there you

go. That's how to get the most out of

ChatGPT browser use and 10 mind-blowing

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