How Codex and Dots Save Me Hours Every Week: My Dot Lola Pulls Daily Priorities from Slack and Calendar

added Oct 12, 2026

OpenAI launched over 20 new features at DevDay, and a few of them have changed my day-to-day as an engineer. Here's how I use Dots, Space, and Codex together. In this video: Meet Lola, my Dot, an always-on AI agent that lives in ChatGPT. How she pulls my daily priorities from Slack, my calendar, and more. Lola's cloud computer vs. my local computer: what each one is for. Kicking off a Codex session straight from my to-do list. Using Space as a home base so nothing from Slack gets lost.

First-hand workflow demo by Ellen Chen (YouTube channel "Ellen Chen", @ellenrchen8), a software engineer. Her Dot "Lola" proactively pulls her daily priorities from Slack and her calendar each day, and she kicks off Codex coding sessions straight from the to-do list the Dot maintains, using Space as a home base. Concrete ongoing result: daily priority pulls from connected work apps. Post-launch (published early October 2026). Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-_489rOdaE