FULL ChatGPT Tutorial For Beginners in 2026! (FULL COURSE)

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✨ Get Iterated – https://iterated.ai

This is the only ChatGPT tutorial you’ll ever need. With this guide you can go from beginner to pro using ChatGPT. I cover the basics like pricing, signing up, every setting that actually matters (including the data control you need to turn off), memory, personalization, and the GCAO prompting framework. Then we work our way up to the intermediate features: GPT Image 2.5 generations with markup editing, voice mode with live web search, the library, scheduled tasks that run every day, projects, plugins like vidIQ, ChatGPT Work, custom GPTs and ChatGPT Sites, where we build and publish a real website without leaving ChatGPT. After you have a solid understanding of ChatGPT on the web we move to your computer with the Codex desktop app: organizing your desktop with computer use, building a brand guide with browser previews and annotations, designing a logo from a sketch, and building a real AI trend watcher web app with logins, API keys, a custom domain and hosting. We finish by having GPT-6 Astra build a full 3D game with ElevenLabs sound effects, and I show you the AI editor that cut this entire video.

Resources Mentioned:
🚀 Join Ai Foundations – https://aifoundations.io/join-carter
✨ Get Iterated – https://iterated.ai
📄 Prompts & Resources – https://aifoundations.io/resources/chatgpt-full-tutorial-prompts-and-resources

Chapters:
0:00 – ChatGPT Tutorial Intro
0:30 – How to Use This Guide
0:45 – ChatGPT Pricing: Free vs Go vs Plus vs Pro
3:20 – Sign Up for ChatGPT
3:30 – ChatGPT Settings Overview
3:51 – ChatGPT Web Appearance
4:45 – Higher Intelligence and ChatGPT Voice
5:03 – ChatGPT Notifications
5:15 – ChatGPT Personalization
6:52 – Custom Instructions in ChatGPT
7:26 – ChatGPT Pets
8:04 – Adding Personalized Context
8:30 – ChatGPT Memory
9:01 – Web Search, Voice and Connector Search
9:53 – ChatGPT Plugins
10:30 – ChatGPT Permissions: Safe vs Permissionless
11:01 – Voice Settings
11:46 – Billing and Usage Limits
12:07 – Analytics
12:23 – Turn Off Model Training
13:19 – Shared Links and Archived Chats
14:19 – Export Your ChatGPT Data
14:31 – Marketing and Ads Privacy
15:02 – ChatGPT Storage
15:19 – Safety, Security and Login
16:04 – Advanced Security and Lockdown Mode
16:32 – Developer Mode
17:03 – Parental Controls and Trusted Contact
17:38 – Account and Keyboard Shortcuts
18:16 – Ai Foundations Community
19:01 – Help and Release Notes
19:33 – Organizing ChatGPT Chats
20:22 – GCAO Prompt Framework
22:39 – Prompting ChatGPT with GCAO
24:46 – Reviewing the Research Output
26:18 – Generating Thumbnails with GPT Image 2.5
29:06 – Editing GPT Images with Markup and Comments
33:38 – ChatGPT Voice Mode
36:18 – Web Search in Voice Mode
37:20 – The ChatGPT Library
38:37 – Scheduled Tasks in ChatGPT
39:45 – Saving Memories for Repeatable Workflows
40:49 – Crafting Prompts with ChatGPT
42:00 – Creating a Daily Scheduled Task
44:01 – ChatGPT Projects
45:34 – Sharing Projects and Project Instructions
46:37 – Plugins: Installing vidIQ
47:53 – Keyword Research with a Plugin
49:48 – ChatGPT Work and Upgrading to Plus
51:03 – Models, Thinking Levels and Fast Mode
52:22 – Custom GPTs
54:23 – How to Build a GPT
58:32 – GPT Configurations
1:00:22 – ChatGPT Sites: Build a Website
1:02:51 – Fixing and Publishing the Site
1:04:51 – Sharing, Analytics and Custom Domains
1:06:08 – Codex Desktop App Install
1:07:30 – Organizing Your Desktop with Codex
1:10:35 – Brand Design with Codex
1:13:31 – Browser Previews and Annotations
1:15:37 – Choosing Fonts
1:18:06 – Designing a Logo with ChatGPT
1:23:05 – Planning the AI Trend Watcher App
1:26:46 – Make Your AI Subscription Pay for Itself
1:28:04 – Users, Logins and APIs Explained
1:29:34 – Ai Foundations Courses
1:30:17 – Building the Landing Page (Phoenix LiveView + Resend)
1:33:20 – Buying a Domain on Cloudflare
1:34:17 – Connecting Resend for Login Emails
1:35:33 – Environment Variables and Browser Use
1:38:39 – Hosting on Fly.io and Using CLIs
1:39:24 – Building a 3D Game with GPT-6 Astra
1:40:34 – Iterated.ai Running Multiple Codex Accounts
1:41:46 – ElevenLabs Sound Effects and Permissions
1:45:17 – Iterated: AI Video Editing
1:48:16 – Playing the Game Astra made
1:50:01 – Congrats, you made it!

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