7 ways to use ChatGPT better

7 AI Tips and Tricks You Might Be Overlooking And How They Can Help You

1. Use Voice-to-Text to Speed Up Ideas
   Instead of typing every prompt, try speaking into your AI app. It keeps your ideas flowing naturally, like talking to a collaborator, instead of overthinking every word.

2. Set Custom Instructions to Protect Your Voice
   Most AI apps let you set preferences now. I tell mine to stay conversational, clear, and human, and you can set yours to your own voice and tone too.

3. Reuse Threads Like Live Notebooks -
   You can treat AI conversations like working notebooks. When combine with voice-use, you enhance you enhance your ability to track your ideas and move them from concept to completion.

   I keep threads open where I brainstorm ideas over time, then I take the ideas that resonate most and have them converted into actionable checklists and processes that make the idea a tangible reality.

4. Summarize Articles Without Losing Hours
   Paste in long articles and ask for a quick summary.

   Better still: have the voice application read the summary back to you while you're while walking from your Waymo to your desk.

5. Brainstorming, No Final Drafts
   I rarely use AI to "write" for me, you can and that’s cool too, but I often ask it to suggest 10 angles, titles, or headlines. I ask it to explore the weaknesses in my idea and to offer counter arguments I might be missing. I ask it to source relevant sources and move on to do. I ask it if what I am saying makes sense and if there is a cleaner way to say what I am saying.

6. Build Simple Systems and Refine
   Use AI to create checklists, templates, or rough project plans, then tweak them yourself to stay connected to your real pace and voice.

   Remember you can prompt the platform to create a weeks worth of checklists to keep you on track with project completion. Drop those downloadable checklists into your phone or reminder applications and you’re now a progress making machine.

   Better still: use the voice application to read you your list back to you while you make your way out the door. You’ll be making moves before you even open your computer.

7. Batch Your Requests to Save Time
   Instead of asking one thing at a time, stack your asks.

   Example: “keeping in mind what you know about my business goals and current objectives give me three blog title ideas. Please offer sources that make each post more relevant and compelling. Keeping in mind my tone and reach and also create 2 social captions.And finally based on the article titles please include any relevant SEO information that should be imbedded in the blog post and the process to most efficiently make sure the SEO is accurately integrated in the post.

   AI handles multitasking better than we sometimes realize and I encourage you to find the way s profound feature to enhance your

As a picture taker, I've been developing a push-pull relationship with AI.

On one hand, I’m juiced by technology and learning new tools. On the other hand, I’m acutely aware of the impact AI is having on the creative process and creative businesses alike. Especially in fields like photography where personal style, vision, and timing mean everything.

However, avoiding technology altogether feels a little like hanging onto a floppy disk because it once worked. It’s nostalgic, but in reality, it can put you at a disadvantage when the world around you is adopting new rules of engagement.

If you're curious but cautious too, here are a few simple AI tools that have made a real difference around the studio. There just some practical ways to use the technology without letting it rewrite your creative voice. Or make you feel all Black Mirror kind of freaked out.

Maybe AI is here to take over the creative landscape, but until it does I am going to keep watering my lawn and cutting my grass… ya know, what I’m saying? And part of that is making sure I’m not lagging behind stuck in old processes that slow us down.