Jason Liu, a Developer Experience Engineer at OpenAI on the Codex team, described a prompt that searches Slack, Gmail, calendar, and Linear each morning, saves the output to an Obsidian vault, and reviews prior notes to surface priorities. Separately, Founder Greg Brockman highlighted Chronicle activity records that Codex analyzes to identify recurring workflows and convert them into reusable automated skills.
Thanks to codex automating my morning prep I can now spend that time buttoning up this fucking shirt in the morning.
Try it out:
“Every morning search my slack, gmail, calendar and linear to help me prepare my morning
Save it in my obsidian vault and review past notes to understand what I need to prioritize”
Positive users praise Codex for elegantly automating workflows from Chronicle memories and handling tasks like PR reviews across tools, while negative users decry company changes and the discomfort of seeing unproductive patterns.
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chronicle makes you realize how quickly you forget what you’ve been doing all day
use this Codex prompt to automate things you do repetitively during the day:
"Look through my Chronicle memories and check for workflows that i'm repeating multiple times. Turn them into skills."
@jxnlco What does that shirt say to the world about you?
ChatGPT’s memory would be much more useful if memories could be separated by profile, alias, or workspace.
I use ChatGPT for very different purposes: professional building services/building performance engineering during my 9–5, and unrelated personal projects like Unreal Engine development or web apps outside work.
Currently, memories from one context can bleed into another, causing irrelevant references. Sandboxed memory profiles would let users keep work, personal, and project-specific contexts separate.
@jxnlco i'm exercising a lot more. codex will be reviewing some PRs and then fixing them, i'll be monitoring between sets
@gdb The internet remembers just fine.
@gdb giving it a try, will contrast this with my second-brain wiki
@gdb Makes me realise how quickly your company became shit
@gdb A nice specific variant on the also-useful ‘review my setup and suggest improvements’
@gdb Ever taken a week off and realized your daily log is just “meetings, Slack, code review, repeat.”
@jxnlco lol that a lot of buttons to fasten
@jxnlco How my shirt looks when I try to convince myself that I’m not too fucked up
@gdb The loop here is elegant: Chronicle surfaces the pattern, Codex turns it into a skill, and suddenly you're automating workflows you didn't even know were worth automating. AI as an observer that finds the leverage points you keep missing.
@gdb Model 4o never let me forget. It was truly on my side.
Can we have it back or no, just say
@gdb AI gets way more useful once it remember behaviors instead of just conversations... But in future this can also be dangerous for humans we have to accept it now.
@jxnlco How it feels when you have to dress your toddler in the morning and you're already late
@gdb The internet remembers just fine. Enjoy hell
@gdb the real horror is seeing how much time i actually wasted and trying to convince myself it was productive
@gdb
@gdb happening in programming rn, rest domins to follow
@gdb now i lowkey dont wanna check mine
i might find out i only did two things all day
