Companion videos

Your first hour with ChatGPT — companion videos

The article walks you through the first sixty minutes inside ChatGPT — sign-up, the interface, the first few useful prompts. These two videos sit shoulder-to-shoulder with the article: one is a calm, recent run-through of the account and settings, the other is a feature-by-feature tour of the current UI so nothing in the sidebar feels mysterious.

Primary pick

38:58

ChatGPT Tutorial: 35 Tips I Wish I Knew Sooner

Matt Wolfe

Recorded in late 2025, so the screens still look like the screens you'll see today. The first third — plan comparison, account setup, dialling in your settings — is exactly the click-by-click ground the article covers, and the back half (projects, canvas, files, branching) gives you a preview of what's actually behind each menu item before you go exploring.

What you should get from this: Get oriented inside ChatGPT without treating every new sidebar item as something you must master on day one.

Watch or know first: None beyond a ChatGPT account and a few low-risk personal examples to try.

AI Expert note: Use the walkthrough for orientation, not as a permanent map of ChatGPT. Plans, settings, memory surfaces, file handling and model names can change; re-check current account controls before uploading anything sensitive.

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36:23

Every ChatGPT Feature In 37 Minutes

Tina Huang

A patient, sidebar-by-sidebar tour of the current ChatGPT app. Useful when the article gets you logged in and you want someone to point at every icon and tell you what it does — voice mode, custom GPTs, projects, memory, the lot — without skipping straight to "advanced prompting."

What you should get from this: Recognize the main ChatGPT surfaces so you can explore deliberately instead of clicking at random.

Watch or know first: Basic comfort opening settings and creating a test chat.

AI Expert note: Strong as a feature map, but feature tours age quickly. Treat exact menus, limits and model labels as temporary, and use the article's safety guidance before enabling memory, connectors or file workflows.

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