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18 August 2026

OpenAI adds activity tracking feature to ChatGPT desktop app

  • ChatGPT's macOS app now includes Computer History, which tracks your clicks and keystrokes across applications to help the AI remember what you were working on.
  • The feature is opt-in and lets you exclude specific apps or websites, automatically skipping private browser tabs, and you can delete individual entries.
  • Computer History records text-based events rather than screenshots or audio, then uses that activity log to suggest automations and surface half-finished tasks when you ask ChatGPT for help.

How it was covered

The NeuronPete Huang & Grant Harvey

ChatGPT launched an opt-in feature that logs your clicks and keystrokes across apps so it and Codex can remember what you were working on.

Reported by The Verge