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OpenAI Adds Computer History to ChatGPT Desktop App

The update lets the AI recall user workflows across apps and websites for personalized responses.

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OpenAI posted that ChatGPT can now remember activity across the apps and websites on a user's computer. The new Computer History capability in the desktop app is intended to make future interactions more personalized and require less explanation from the user. The announcement included a video. Replies from engineers and investors noted similar prompt-based memory systems built earlier, expressed interest in using the feature to resume tasks or identify automations, and one suggested a launch event at the Computer History Museum.

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OpenAI Adds Computer History to ChatGPT Desktop App

The update lets the AI recall user workflows across apps and websites for personalized responses.

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OpenAI posted that ChatGPT can now remember activity across the apps and websites on a user's computer. The new Computer History capability in the desktop app is intended to make future interactions more personalized and require less explanation from the user. The announcement included a video. Replies from engineers and investors noted similar prompt-based memory systems built earlier, expressed interest in using the feature to resume tasks or identify automations, and one suggested a launch event at the Computer History Museum.

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@OpenAIComputer History builds on the Chronicle research preview with reduced token usage and more privacy controls. A new timeline view gives you the ability to look back on your work and build skills from your frequent tasks. From there or the menu bar, you can: - Clear all or parts of your history - Include or exclude apps and websites - Pause and resume Computer History https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/customization/computer-history

@AriXToday we're releasing Computer History in ChatGPT. It lets ChatGPT learn from everything you do on your computer, so it can better understand how you work, finish tasks that you're in the middle of, and suggest skills and automations based on how you use your computer.

@jeff_weinsteinthis is like having the actual Ari sitting next to you helping you with your computer.

@kimmonismus„A new timeline view gives you the ability to look back on your work and build skills from your frequent tasks.“ Love it! Sounds like a cool feature

@reach_vbthis is so so useful! Computer History helps you pick up where you left off across apps and websites what was I working on before lunch? which doc was I looking at? where did I stop? what do I repeat enough to turn into a skill or automation? makes codex much more high agency

@OpenAIDevsCodex and ChatGPT can now understand the context of your recent work. Opt into Computer History to give ChatGPT richer context, so it can pick up where you left off, understand patterns in your work, and suggest skills or scheduled tasks for work you repeat.

@NickADobosOh neat, I built this same system for website & app memory a few weeks ago, but only using prompts inside codex Cool to see the same idea get integrated at the harness level

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@rohanpaul_aiThe new Computer History in ChatGPT can now remember what you did on your Mac, without screenshots. gives ChatGPT and Codex a memory layer built from activity across allowed apps and websites rather than chat history alone. So instead of Chronicle's screenshot-based approach, it records clicks, typing, shortcuts, app switches and accessibility context, then summarizes that activity into memories. Those summaries can help recover recent work, locate source documents and turn repeated workflows into suggested skills or automations. Repeated workflows can become suggested skills or automations. So it turns passive activity history into material for future agent execution. The privacy model is partly local: temporary event files stay on the Mac for up to 48 hours, while OpenAI processes them server-side to generate memories. Generated memories remain as plain-text Markdown files on the Mac until deletion, and OpenAI says Computer History itself does not encrypt them. OpenAI also warns that content encountered in apps or websites can carry malicious instructions into the captured context, creating prompt-injection risk.

@thsottiauxComputer history is here.

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