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Claude or ChatGPT? Choose the right AI for the job A choice chart, 3 everyday prompts, sample briefs and a scorecard. Claude & ChatGPTAI tools 8 min Learn to direct and review AI work Two occupation examples, specific feedback prompts and a reusable review worksheet. Claude & ChatGPTBusiness 12 min Turn your voice note into a Notion to-do list Talk through your mental load. Get a ranked task list, a Notion dashboard and help finishing the first task. ChatGPTProductivity 10 min Let Claude handle the school morning mental load Connect school sources, get the bag list, put the brief in your calendar and look 14 days ahead. ClaudeDesigning your life 10 min Google Search Console + ChatGPT for Instagram Connect your Instagram, understand Google discovery and use two ChatGPT workflows. ChatGPTBusiness 10 min Get more from the ChatGPT you already have Connect your tools and use five workflows, including a coordinated marketing launch kit. ChatGPTLearning AI 12 min 150 one-word photo commands that never touch your face Photo Prompts is a free skill with 150 one-word commands, /goldenhour, /classicchrome, /quietluxury, that restyle any photo while preserving your exact face, pose and outfit. Works in ChatGPT Codex and Claude. Free download, MIT licensed. Claude & ChatGPT 8 min ChatGPT edits my Reels: the free editing guide The full workflow: give Codex a home for your editing, set up HeyGen HyperFrames, build an editing guide around your taste, and edit in rounds. Free starter kit, every prompt, and all the templates included. Claude & ChatGPT 13 min Four email addresses. Five life categories. One dashboard. How I used ChatGPT and Codex to build a private, unified email command center around my actual life: the signature map, the category system, the unresponsive tab, and every prompt I used to get there. Claude & ChatGPT 11 min How I hired three AI employees The full build for three AI employees on Grok Bot: a life assistant that runs the calendar and inbox, a sales manager with his own email address, and a growth marketer who fixes the ads instead of reporting on them. Job descriptions included. SpaceXAIAI tools 8 min Three ad prompts that sell your product Turn one phone photo into three high-converting product ads with ChatGPT: the attention grabber, the relatable, and the proof. The exact copy-paste prompts, the fill-in brief, and how to iterate past AI slop. ChatGPTBusiness 9 min Three agents that run the kid stuff Three copy-paste Claude agents for parents: a 7am pack list that knows the weather, a school news agent that reads every school email for you, and a kids event agent that fills your calendar on its own. Claude & ChatGPT 10 min The Business Coach Turn Claude into your personal business strategist, built from the frameworks of 100 of the greatest business books. Free download, installs in 2 minutes, works for strategy and for the conversations you are dreading. Claude & ChatGPT 8 min Build a life dashboard with a desktop pet The full build guide for a chief of staff system in Claude: one task brain swept three times a day, a one-glance dashboard, safety rules, and a desktop pet that tells you when anything needs you. Claude & ChatGPT 10 min Five Claude setups that run the school year Five ten-minute Claude setups for parents: every school date on the calendar automatically, a one-message weekly email digest, per-kid pack lists at bedtime, supply shopping from list to cart, and visual study guides. Claude & ChatGPT 11 min Build a calendar audit agent that briefs you every week Connect your calendar, write one context file about your priorities, and schedule a weekly audit. It finds conflicts, checks the weather, tells you what to wear, suggests meals, and builds the grocery list. Copy and paste blocks included. Claude & ChatGPT 10 min New to Claude? The full setup, from zero to it actually working The complete beginner guide: where to sign up, the desktop and phone apps, which plan to pick, desktop access, context files, connectors, projects, skills, and recurring tasks. Everything in one place, in order. Claude & ChatGPT 12 min Build an email agent that runs your inbox A live dashboard that reads your inbox, sorts it by what matters, and drafts every reply before you even look. Connect Gmail or Outlook, build an artifact in Cowork, and prompt it. About ten minutes, three steps. Claude & ChatGPT 7 min Closed vs open weight: what it means to actually own an AI model Everyone says open source AI, but what are you really downloading? A plain-English guide to closed vs open-weight models, what open weight actually is, the three ways to host one, and how to get Kimi K3. Claude & ChatGPT 8 min Build a website with AI: the whole playbook, from idea to live My complete guide to building a real website with AI. Design it, make it collect and send info, and put it live on your own domain for about $20 a year. Three phases, one weekend, no code. Claude & ChatGPT 16 min Teach Claude your voice: build a caption skill that writes like you The three-step way I turned my own voice into a skill Claude runs every time. Upload captions you love, coach it through samples until they are perfect, then have it save the whole thing as a skill. Includes a copy-paste prompt with my real caption rules. Claude & ChatGPT 8 min Day one with Claude: the cheat sheet I wish I'd had Claude runs half my life now, but on day one I had no idea what I was doing. Three steps to set it up: brain dump into one file, talk to it like a person, and hand off one weekly task. Claude & ChatGPT 6 min 3 things to type into Claude that make it way smarter Most people are using maybe 10% of Claude. These are the three cheat codes I use every day: voice mode, one magic line, and making it argue with itself. ClaudeFeature tips 4 min Build a 5-minute AI morning briefing One saved prompt that turns your calendar, inbox, and to-do swirl into a two-minute read with your coffee, and makes the 5am routine actually pay off. ClaudeProductivity 5 min 3 things Claude does for me on a schedule (so I never have to remember) The morning brief, the Monday audit, and the monthly subscription check. Set them up once, and stop carrying your to-do list in your head. ClaudeFeature tips 5 min Planning a career change with AI as your thinking partner A career change is a hundred small decisions. How to use AI for the honest inventory, the market research, the money math, and the plan. Claude & ChatGPTBusiness 9 min I ran ChatGPT and Claude side by side for 6 months. Here’s the honest answer. I run a tech company and have two toddlers, so I need AI that actually works. I used both every day for six months. It’s not close. Claude & ChatGPTAI tools 5 min I run my home like I run my company. 3 things Claude handles in the background. Dinner ordered, subscriptions audited, the birthday party planned. It’s not magic. It’s me handing off the parts of my life I was bad at. ClaudeProductivity 5 min Turn a messy idea into a clear plan You have an idea, a business, a project, a big change. Here’s a step-by-step AI process to turn the swirl in your head into a plan you can actually start. Claude & ChatGPTBusiness 8 min I hire on a team of 200. I haven’t read a real resume in 18 months. Anyone can have AI write a perfect resume now, so resumes tell me almost nothing. Here’s what I actually look at, and what to build instead. Claude & ChatGPTBusiness 5 min The only AI tools you actually need (and the ones you can skip) There are thousands of AI tools and you need about four. An honest, hype-free starter kit for a busy life, plus how to evaluate the next shiny thing. Claude & ChatGPTAI tools 7 min Use AI to get an hour back, every day A realistic daily AI workflow for busy women: five recurring tasks to hand off, how to set them up once, and what to do with the hour you reclaim. Claude & ChatGPTProductivity 7 min ChatGPT for real life: 10 things to try first New to AI? Skip the hype. These are the ten most useful things to try in your first week, practical, specific, and built for an actual busy life. Claude & ChatGPTGetting started 8 min Write anything faster: emails, posts, and the hard messages A practical system for using AI on everything you write, including the messages that are hard because they’re emotional, not because they’re long. Claude & ChatGPTProductivity 7 min The 15-minute weekly meal plan (with AI) One Sunday session: a week of family dinners, a sorted grocery list, and no 5pm scramble. The exact prompts, the system, and how to make it stick. Claude & ChatGPTDesigning your life 6 min What not to share with AI: privacy basics for real people You don’t need to be paranoid to use AI well, you need five simple rules. What’s safe to share, what never is, and the settings worth two minutes of your time. Claude & ChatGPTGetting started 6 min How to talk to AI: prompts that actually work The difference between a useless AI answer and a great one is the ask. Five plain-English prompting principles, no jargon, with before/after examples. Claude & ChatGPTGetting started 6 min Plan your next trip with AI (without losing the magic) From "somewhere in October" to a booked, kid-proofed itinerary: the prompts that do the logistics so you can spend your energy on the wonder. Claude & ChatGPTDesigning your life 7 min
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