ChatGPT on Mac starts reading how you work
OpenAI has begun shipping an opt-in Mac feature called Computer History that turns a person's actions on macOS into a timeline ChatGPT and Codex can consult. The stated aim is an assistant that learns how someone works, proposes automations and picks up unfinished tasks. According to The Verge, the feature keeps an event log and does not capture images, video or audio, which separates it from Microsoft's screenshot-based Recall. Users can keep individual apps and websites out of the timeline and delete entries, and product and engineering manager Ari Weinstein said on X that content in incognito or private browser tabs is ignored. In a demonstration, OpenAI's Dominik Kundel had the app find the last document he edited, check whether it had been shared on Slack and summarise how he spent his morning. The product move is modest in form — opt-in, event-only, with exclusions — yet it places the assistant inside the sequence of real work rather than only inside a chat window. What the model can answer now depends on a desktop trail the user can edit, hide or clear.[1]