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Write the Ideas, Automate the Rest
I turned my Claude Project into a one-click article factory. I still write the core points myself — the ideas are the part I won't outsource. Then the project's saved instructions take over and: • Fact-check every point…
Brain Dump to Blueprint
Your messiest ideas are great raw material — if you let AI do the sorting. • Capture on the move. On a walk, I talked for 30 minutes straight into a voice recorder — no outline, no structure — and it transcribed the who…
Stop Typing Prompts in the Box
Long prompts don't belong in a tiny chat box. • Draft in a text editor (Notepad, Obsidian, whatever). More room, real editing, and nothing vanishes if the tab reloads. • Talk, don't type. Tools like Wispr Flow transcrib…
Turn Curiosity Into a Podcast
🎧 Turn any topic into your own podcast — free. Perfect for learning on a walk, run, or drive: • Gather sources. Ask Perplexity a specific question; it answers and hands you a list of cited source links. • Feed the link…
Always check its work
AI is super helpful but it cannot be fully trusted. Its benefit is that it is fast, not that it is correct. It can usually get you the first 95% there. As a matter of fact, all AI is ever really doing is 'guessing the a…
Contracts and documents
If you have a question or concern about a contract such as a rental or automotive lease or some usage agreement. Just upload the document to a chat or chat project, ask it any questions that you have. The chat should no…
Recipe manager
You can create a Recipe Manager project in ChatGPT or Claude. Just tell it that you want to be able to upload recipes in random formats, which could be photos, text, or web pages, and you want it to generate a format in…
Extract from web page
If there is an image or web page that has data you want to print (like a schedule within a graphic) you tell a chat (Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini) what data you want, how to format it and to put it into a CSV or PDF for yo…