Project basics

0:00 So in this deep dive video, I'm going to show you step by step first what projects are and how they work, why they're different from regular chats inside of Chat GPT, and how you could use them for real tasks with real practical examples. And at the end, I'll share some advanced tricks and a few settings too that are hidden that most people overlook. Okay, let's jump into chat GPT. And again, this is available to all accounts.

0:22 So even in the free account, you'll see it. And you'll see GPTs. So these are different. I've covered these in different videos, but projects work in a different way. So I'll go ahead and show you by creating new project here. And your existing project will show here. And then if you have more, you could see them here. I'll start with a new one. So, first, what are projects exactly? And how are they different? Well, projects keep chat files and your instructions in one place for a very specific task.

0:44 So, you use them for ongoing work and you keep adding to them. Now, they're a little bit different if you've used custom GPTs because those are meant to just be created for one specific repeatable task. Projects are kind of a living thing. You want to keep adding to them. You want to keep customizing them. And I usually create a project let's say for investing and I always come back to that project. So it has a long history of everything I've talked about related to that one topic.

1:31 Now there is a really important key settings that came out not too long ago right over here. So I'm going to click on this which also makes projects very unique and really powerful in this way. So memory the default option says project can access memories from outside of chat. So it could look into your regular chat GPT memory which chat GPT has. But this one is the one I like and it recently came out. Projects can only access its own memories and memories are hidden from outside of chat.

1:55 Now this is key. The project now is self-contained and it won't go find irrelevant things that you might have had in your memory in previous chats and things like that. So the next thing after we change the setting is we want to name the project. So for this example, I'll do a practical example for me. So YouTube channel manager and then over here you could pick any type of icons for that or just pick a color if you don't see anything that's relevant.

2:19 Okay, so inside of each project when you're setting it up, there are multiple things that you can set up. So I'll talk about that and then I'll show you practical examples on how to set each one. The very first one is right over here is you could add files. Now here you could add all kinds of documents,