4 Ways to Use ChatGPT to Help with Time Management

Do you struggle with time management? Rest assured, you’re not the only one. Do you know that you can use ChatGPT to help you get better at spending your time wisely, take control of your working life, and focus on what matters?

In the rest of this piece, we’ll discover 4 ways ChatGPT can help us with time management. That may sound crazy, but ChatGPT is far more than a tool to help us come up with killer outlines and give us a head start with our writing. It can actually help boost our productivity by helping us to fine-tune our time management skills so that we will never again need to dread an approaching deadline.  

Without further ado, let’s find out how you can make the most of your time with ChatGPT.

It Can Advise You on How to Prioritise Tasks

You can get good advice from ChatGPT on how to rank your tasks. It will present you with common methods like the ABCD Method, the Eisenhower Matrix, Warren Buffet’s two-list method, and even time multiplying. It will give you some detail on each one to help you pinpoint which approach would be best suited for you depending on what goals you have.

If you want to find out more about the Eisenhower Matrix, be sure to read ‘How Can I be More Productive at Work?’

Once you’ve chosen your preferred method, you can ask ChatGPT to order your tasks in accordance with that method.  For instance, if you want to use the ABCD method, you can just list your daily tasks and ask it to apply the ABCD method. First, it will prioritise tasks that are urgent or need to be addressed quickly. Further down the list, you’ll find tasks you can leave on the backburner for a while. Hey presto, you have a well-ordered list of tasks you can start to chip away at that will help you stay organised and productive throughout the day.

All you need to do is make sure you let ChatGPT know which of your tasks are critical or time-sensitive. You might need a little practice to get really good at creating prompts, but you’ll soon be able to use it to skyrocket your productivity, simplify your decisions, and become the envy of everyone in the office.

ChatGPT Can Help Streamline Workflows

This cool chatbot can also offer tips to help you speed up your workflow. Are you one of those people who seems to spend half your day sorting through and responding to emails? ChatGPT has you covered.

It can advise on templates you can use to help you respond to emails faster and will remind you to unsubscribe from as much as you can, to prevent useless or unneeded information from cluttering up your inbox. It will also advocate not getting involved in conversations with no purpose, and always using clear, unambiguous language to communicate. For more on managing your email effectively, see ‘How to Manage Your Inbox Like a Pro.’

If you have a specific job, ChatGPT may be able to offer some advice on how to automate some routine tasks to free up time.

For estate agents, ChatGPT came up with:

• Ways to automate email marketing campaigns.
• The idea to offer virtual tours to prospective buyers, which can be put on the estate agent’s website to give people an idea of what they’re coming to view.
• Several property listing synchronisation services that can use to help save time.

Pretty neat, right?

So, if the fancy takes you, ask it for some time management tips tailored to your own career.

It Can Break Your Work Down into Bite-Sized Chunks

The chatbot can help you cope with larger projects by helping you break them down into a series of smaller, more manageable tasks. You can even ChatGPT to take on a certain role for you, like a professional organiser, so that the information is presented to you in a specific way.

Let’s say you wanted to declutter your workspace.

ChatGPT can give helpful advice on how to do it more efficiently, including tips to help you decide what to keep and what to discard much faster.

So, when next you have a big task in front of you, consider asking the chatbot for any tips it has to offer to help make it a little more manageable. You never know, it might spit out the perfect piece of advice that’ll make the task go by in a flash.

You Can Ask ChatGPT for Time Saving Tips That Are Just for You

With practice, as you get better at writing prompts, you can start to write prompts that will help you receive tailored, personalised advice, no matter what your situation.

Imagine you’re a terrible procrastinator. You can ask the chatbot for time-saving tips for a procrastinator.

It will give you 10 suggestions straight away, including:

• Use time-blocking.
• Employ productivity techniques.  
• Get rid of distractions.
• Hold yourself accountable.
• Reward yourself.

You can ask ChatGPT for more tips or be more specific and detailed with your prompts to get more personalised answers and targeted help.

For example, if you want to explore productive ways you can use the time you have available on the commute to work, you can ask it for advice surrounding that. The sky really is the limit with ChatGPT, given the vast amount of information it can pull from the internet.

Wrapping Up

ChatGPT can be a powerful tool to help improve your time management skills and boost your productivity. By harnessing its capabilities, you can use the features it offers to optimise your workflow and save yourself time, so you can spend it on what matter.

The 4 ways to use ChatGPT to help with time management given here show just a few of the ways ChatGPT can help keep you on track and focused. With practice, it’ll be like having your own personal assistant, and is sure to skyrocket your productivity.

So, why not go and try it today, and see what AI can do for you?

Happy experimenting!