01What ChatGPT Space Is and How It Works

ChatGPT Space is a shared folder inside ChatGPT where you and your team can build living documents with AI. It replaces the old library tab for Pro, Business, and Enterprise users. Your projects stay where they are, and Space sits next to them.

Inside Space, you create pages. A page can hold words, pictures, charts, checklists, tables, and even dashboards. ChatGPT can build a page from a chat or from a template.

You can invite teammates to edit or comment. When you need help, tag ChatGPT or your own AI helper called a dot right on the page.

Space solves the problem of good ideas getting stuck in chats. Instead of copying a plan out of ChatGPT into Google Docs, everything lives in one place. The chat, the page, the files, and the team are all together.

02Main Features of ChatGPT Space

  • Pages – A new kind of document that can hold text, images, charts, checklists, tables, and dashboards.
  • Team collaboration – Invite teammates to edit pages and leave comments.
  • Tag AI in comments – Tag ChatGPT, Codex, or your dot in a comment, and the AI makes the change.
  • Dots – Always-on AI helpers that sit in the sidebar, work in the cloud, and can even take phone calls.
  • Connected tools – Bring in files from Google Drive and Slack, keeping the same permissions.
  • Scheduled tasks – Ask ChatGPT to create a task that updates your page on a timer.

OpenAI announced more than 20 things at Dev Day on September 29th in San Francisco. Space is the one that ties many of them together.

03How to Set Up ChatGPT Space

  1. Open ChatGPT and go to the Space tab. It replaces the library tab for Pro, Business, and Enterprise users.
  2. Start a new space or use an existing project. Your projects stay where they are.
  3. Create a page from a chat or pick a template like a daily to-do list or project dashboard.
  4. Invite a teammate to the page. They can edit or leave comments.
  5. To make a page from a chat, ask ChatGPT something like, “Turn this chat about next week’s coaching calls into a page with a checklist for each call.”
  6. For updates on a timer, ask ChatGPT to set up a scheduled task. Do not just write a schedule on the page—that does nothing.

That is the basic setup. You can start with one page and share it with one person.

04How to Use Pages and Tag AI Helpers

Once you have a page, you can work on it with ChatGPT. Each person works with their own ChatGPT instance. For example, you ask your ChatGPT to shorten the intro while your teammate asks theirs to add a chart.

Both edits happen on the same page at the same time.

You can be picky with edits. OpenAI’s help page gives this example: “Shorten the introduction and keep the recommendations unchanged.” That way ChatGPT changes one part and locks the rest. That is useful when you only want a small fix.

Comments make it feel like a real team. Invite someone, they leave a comment, and you can tag ChatGPT, Codex, or your dot in the comment. The AI reads the comment and makes the change.

Dan Shipper from Every said this felt like working with a person.

  • Tag ChatGPT in a comment to get a fix.
  • Use your dot to work on pages while you do something else.
  • Name your dot and use it to check email, Slack, and more.

05Results and Comparisons From the Episode

Dan Shipper runs a company called Every and has been to every Dev Day since 2023. He said this Dev Day had way more launches than any before. He wrote his whole Dev Day review inside Space and said it was an easy swap for the writing app he used before.

Dan also noticed a speed difference. When an AI edits a Google Doc through a web browser, changes come in slowly because Google Docs was built for people typing. Pages were built for AI from day one, so edits show up much faster.

Dan shared an example with his dot, which he named Boo. Boo read his email, checked Slack, and warned him about a flight time clash with a meeting request he hadn’t opened. That shows what dots can do.

However, Dan said dots were buggy when he tested them. He had problems with permissions and dropped messages. His advice was to give it a week or two for rough edges to smooth out.

06Tips, Limits, and Mistakes to Avoid

  • Privacy catch – If ChatGPT pulls something from your memory onto a shared page, everyone with access can read it. Read the page top to bottom before sharing.
  • Automatic updates are not live – The keep-updated feature was not available at launch. Use scheduled tasks instead by asking ChatGPT to create the task.
  • Do not write schedules on the page – That does nothing. You must ask ChatGPT to set up the task.
  • Test dots before trusting them – Dots may still have bugs with permissions and dropped messages.
  • Permissions carry over – Files from Google Drive or Slack keep the same permissions in Space. If someone can’t see a file in Drive, they can’t see it in Space.
  • Don’t try to learn everything – With over 20 launches, it’s normal to feel overwhelmed. Learn one page, share it with one person, tag ChatGPT once, and build from there.

07Who Should Use ChatGPT Space and Why It Matters

ChatGPT Space is for anyone who works with a team and gets tired of version chaos. If you’ve ever had three versions of a doc floating around, Space can fix that by keeping everything in one place with AI help.

It matters because it moves ChatGPT from a place where good ideas get stuck to a place where you and your team can act on them. The chat, the page, the files, and the team all live together.

OpenAI has already said what’s coming: shared slides, shared spreadsheets, the real keep-updated button, editing on your phone, and plugin extensions for full apps inside ChatGPT. That means more of your tools could show up in the same place as your pages.

There is a window right now where most business owners haven’t figured out ChatGPT Space yet. They don’t know about pages, the scheduled task workaround, or the memory catch. That window won’t stay open forever.