Tips & tricks

Change a text's tone without losing facts

Same facts, different register: news, analytical, explanatory, social. How to specify tone concretely and catch a model drifting into tabloid.

From an article to social posts

One published article, five networks, five hooks. How to tease without clickbait, keep the facts intact, and handle a correction.

Text to an exact character count

Headline under 60, teaser under 300, column at 3,000. Models count characters unreliably — how to set a hard limit, verify it, and cut without losing facts

Hlídač státu as a journalism tool

Contracts, subsidies, party donations, and the K-index right inside a conversation. Where a lead comes from and where data ends and an accusation begins.

In-depth guide · 64 min

How to write an email people answer

A complete guide to writing emails: subject lines, salutations, formal and casual English, ready-made wording for ten hard situations, and prompts for AI.

SVG diagrams for articles

A diagram says in three seconds what a paragraph takes a minute to say. How to generate a vector diagram, handle accessibility, and verify every number.

In-depth guide · 29 min

Morning brief: what needs a decision today

A complete guide with 14 prompts: Claude Cowork checks Slack, mail, calendar, and dashboards, then hands you a ranked list of what's on you today.

In-depth guide · 34 min

AI in the newsroom: a journalist's guide

The hub for the whole journalism section: research, public data, writing, graphics, social media, and source protection. Eighteen prompts, one hard line.

In-depth guide · 56 min

A wedding as a system: one source of truth for guests, the website, place cards, and the seating chart

A complete guide with 24 prompts: the guest list, schedule, vendors, and budget as structured data that invitations, the wedding website, place cards, menus, and signage all get generated from. Changing the ceremony time becomes one fix, not five — and RSVP lives in a database instead of three Messenger threads.

In-depth guide · 57 min

Your club as a system: posters, an events calendar, and membership records with AI

A complete guide with 25 prompts for anyone running a club on evenings and weekends: one visual identity through the Canva connector, an events calendar as the single source of truth, membership records with roles in Supabase, mass emails with a personal touch — and the whole system documented so it can be handed off to a successor.

In-depth guide · 59 min

A restaurant as a system: one menu that everything else is derived from

A complete guide with 25 prompts: turn your menu into a structured source of truth, then derive the printed menu, a QR menu on your website, social posts, and a staff cheat sheet from it. No more retyping the same soup in four places.

In-depth guide · 57 min

Vetting a business partner with Hlídač státu: a risk profile before you sign

A complete guide with 23 prompts: run a counterparty through the Register of Contracts, the insolvency register, corporate criminal records, subsidies and political party sponsorship via Hlídač státu's MCP server — then save the result as a versioned risk profile you update with a single prompt before the next contract.

In-depth guide · 55 min

Selling a home with AI as a system: from paperwork to handing over the keys

A complete guide with 24 prompts: selling a flat yourself — the flat's paperwork as one source of truth, from which you derive the listing copy, a website, ads, buyer tracking, viewings, and negotiation. And one hard line, stated plainly: a lawyer writes the contracts, not AI.

In-depth guide · 57 min

Miracle supplement, or marketing? Verifying health claims with AI and PubMed

A complete guide with 24 prompts: how to run a claim from an ad, a chain email, or Instagram against real studies through the PubMed connector, how to read abstracts with AI, tell a weak study from a strong one — and turn it all into a family registry of verified claims instead of endless googling.

In-depth guide · 21 min

Coloring pages on demand: your kid dreams up the picture, AI draws it, you print it

A complete guide with prompts: an excavator rescuing a kitten, ready on paper in a minute. The magic formula for clean outlines, age variants, series, mazes, and printing.

In-depth guide · 57 min

A single source of truth for your marketing campaign: Canva, Buffer, Meta Ads, and Brevo via MCP

A complete guide with 25 prompts: a campaign document in git as the single source of truth, artwork from a brand template in Canva, scheduling through Buffer, ads through the Meta Ads MCP, and a newsletter in Brevo — six weeks of campaign where changing the tagline means one fix, not five rewrites.

In-depth guide · 58 min

A conference as a system: one program that generates everything

A complete guide with 23 prompts: the event program as structured data — generating the website, name badges, signage, posts, and MC notes. When a speaker cancels the day before, you fix one file, not eight outputs at 3 a.m.

In-depth guide · 75 min

An internal CRM with Supabase: a detailed guide from data to deployment

A continuation of Marta the roastery owner’s story: a complete beginner’s guide to turning contacts in your phone and orders in spreadsheets into your own CRM — from explaining what a database even is, through click-by-click Supabase setup and deployment on Vercel, to a cost reckoning with real numbers against off-the-shelf CRMs.

In-depth guide · 58 min

The Freelancer as a One-Person Agency: Brand and Business as a System

A mega guide with 23 prompts: portfolio and CV as data in git, generating a PDF CV, a website on Vercel, and a proposal in twenty minutes, a mini CRM for inquiries in Notion, and invoices through the Stripe MCP — one freelancer, one source of truth.

In-depth guide · 78 min

Your brand as a system: from brand voice through brochure and website to CRM

A complete guide for absolute beginners — with a glossary of terms, step-by-step account setup, and an honest chapter on real-world costs in dollars: turn a brand manual into a lasting Brand Voice document, a print-ready brochure in Affinity through Claude Cowork, a website on Vercel, and a locked-down CRM on Supabase. One company, one continuous story, 19 prompts to copy.

In-depth guide · 57 min

Company know-how out of your head: AI interviews, Lucid, and Notion

A complete guide with 25 prompts: AI interviews the owner and the foreman, draws the processes into editable maps via the Lucid connector, and saves the procedures into a living knowledge base in Notion. The company stops running on what's in Franta's head.

In-depth guide · 37 min

From pencil sketch to computer: what you can actually turn into vectors, CAD, and 3D today

A complete guide with 18 prompts: how to turn a hand sketch, a photo, or an old floor plan into an editable file that CAD, 3D, or layout software can actually work with — including scale calibration, an overview of MCP connectors (official vs. community), and a hard line between reference material and an actual project.

Which tab is that playing from? Find it and mute it

The tab that's making sound gives itself away with a little speaker icon — and in Edge and Firefox, one click on it mutes it.

An external drive and File History: a backup that runs itself

Windows and Mac both have automatic backup built in — all they need is a drive. Hourly file versions, and a deleted file back in two clicks.

.new addresses: a blank document in one second

Type docs.new or sheets.new into your browser — and a new document opens right away. word.new and excel.new from Microsoft work too.

Shift+F5 in Word: jump to your last edit

Shift+F5

Open a document and Word dumps you at the start. Shift+F5 jumps exactly to where you last stopped writing.

Comparing two versions of a document: see the changes in color

Word and Google Docs can both compare two versions of a file and highlight every difference. No more reading contracts line by line.

Hidden formatting marks: why a document behaves strangely

Ctrl+Shift+8

The ¶ button reveals spaces, tabs, and page breaks. Suddenly you can see exactly why text jumps where it shouldn't — and what to delete.

Ctrl+Enter: a new page without hammering Enter

Ctrl+Enter

Paginating with twenty presses of Enter falls apart at the first edit. Ctrl+Enter inserts a real page break that stays put.

AutoCorrect as a shortcut dictionary: long names from three letters

Teach Word that “dph” means “value added tax.” AutoCorrect can expand your own custom shortcuts across every Office app.