Scheduled tasks with nothing to report keep your chat quiet
For everyone who works with an AI employee
Part of One-time reminders and an alert when a reply arrives
A scheduled task that you asked to stay silent when nothing needs you now leaves your chat untouched on a run with nothing to report. Runs that find something reach you as before.
Why it matters
A task that checks your inbox every 30 minutes could fill your chat with empty answers day and night, so the messages that matter were easy to miss. Now your chat shows only the runs that have something for you.
- Before
- Every run of a scheduled task posted its instructions and an answer in your chat, even when the answer was a single dash or a long note that nothing was new.
- Now
- A scheduled task run with nothing to report adds no message, no notification and no unread count, and your task list shows it as nothing to report.
What you get
- Silent when you ask for it: when a task says to stay silent if nothing needs you, a run with nothing to report adds nothing to your chat.
- No ring, no badge, no typing dots: a quiet run sends no notification, raises no unread count and shows no typing bubble while it works.
- Findings arrive in one piece: a run that finds something shows its instructions and its answer together when it is done, with the usual notification.
- Write while it runs: if you message your AI employee while a scheduled task is working, the task appears at once and its answer is always shown.
- Endings always reach you: the end of a reply alert and its last update are always posted, and a run that fails is still shown in the chat.
How to use it
Ask for silence in the task
When you set up or change a scheduled task, add a sentence such as "If nothing needs me, stay silent and send no message." Your AI employee then keeps quiet on a run that finds nothing for you.
Check what the task did
Type
/routinesto see each scheduled task. A task whose last run had nothing for you shows last run: nothing to report.
Good to know
- A run that finds anything that needs you, or that fails, always reaches your chat.
- Quiet runs count as successful runs and add nothing to your AI employee's memory.
Part of: One-time reminders and an alert when a reply arrives
Ask your AI employee for a one-time reminder, a scheduled task that ends on a date, or an alert when the Gmail reply you are waiting for arrives.
More updates to this feature
- A reminder you ask for once now comes onceFixedFor everyone
- A scheduled task missed during a sign-in problem runs once it worksImprovedFor everyone
- When a scheduled task can't run, the people who can fix it are toldFixedFor business owners and admins
- When one AI account fails, other AI employees' tasks keep runningFixedFor admins