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Every tip is one concrete thing you will do better or faster. Filter by what you use and who you are — or just search.
In-depth guide · 18 min
A complete guide with copy-paste prompts: how to pick a tool, what to type into the first empty box, and telling a good answer from plausible nonsense.
In-depth guide · 17 min
A guide with prompts: research the other side in twenty minutes, build arguments and a walk-away point, rehearse the hardest part, and get a one-pager.
In-depth guide · 17 min
A complete guide with prompts for hard critique: untraining AI from agreeing with you, decision premortems, red-teaming a proposal — and when to ignore it.
In-depth guide · 17 min
A complete guide to standing instructions: what belongs in them, how they differ from a Project, testing them — and ready sets for common professions.
In-depth guide · 23 min
A complete guide with prompts: get a script written and explained, run it safely on a copy of your data, and build a tool library — without writing code.
In-depth guide · 20 min
A complete guide with prompts: what to upload to a Project, how to write its instructions, when to start a new one, and maintenance so it doesn't lie.
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In-depth guide · 14 min
A complete guide with prompts: describe a formula in plain words and get a working fix, debug errors, design a table that holds, and when to use a macro.
In-depth guide · 19 min
A complete guide with prompts: from recording consent to notes that separate decisions from discussion, list who-what-by-when tasks, and admit what's open.
In-depth guide · 17 min
A complete guide with prompts: why one example beats a thousand words of instructions, when one or three, ready templates, and your own style bank.
In-depth guide · 16 min
A complete guide with prompts and a fill-in template: the same request in three versions from bad to best, picking a role, and how much context is enough.
In-depth guide · 18 min
A guide with prompts: steering translation with your own samples, translation versus localization, back-translation checks, and glossary workflows.
In-depth guide · 19 min
A complete guide with prompts: phrases for sharpening, narrowing, and shifting tone, variants instead of guessing, and when to scrap a chat and restart.
Ctrl+K
VS Code, Figma, Slack, Notion, browsers — they all open a “jump to anything” box. Learn it once and use it in every app you touch daily.
A faster Spotlight with clipboard history, window management, text snippets, and thousands of extensions. Free at its core.
In-depth guide · 19 min
A complete guide with prompts: four summary types by purpose, extracting risks from contracts, comparing two versions, and checking nothing vital got lost.
In-depth guide · 15 min
A guide with prompts: the brief method for a one-minute draft, ready asks for the hardest email types, teaching AI your voice, and a pre-send check.
A week with a time tracker (Toggl and similar) reveals the gap between what you think you do and reality. It's usually a shock — and the start of a change.
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Type “p1” and the task turns red, “tomorrow 9am” and it gets a due date. Quick Add understands it all in one line.
Ideas and tasks drop into your Inbox without a second thought about where they belong. Once a day, you empty it — into projects, or into the trash.
Apps like Cold Turkey or Freedom block chosen websites for a set period. Decide once, and it holds for the whole morning.
Flashcards with an algorithm that quizzes you right when you're about to forget. For languages, exams, and professional knowledge alike.
Ctrl+P
Ctrl+P finds every command — switching modes, inserting a template, exporting. No need to memorize shortcuts.
Double square brackets create a link to another note — and backlinks show you where it's referenced from.
One place where you dump notes, ideas, and links all day long. Sort it out in the evening — or don't; search will still find it.
A record template pre-fills the structure — meeting notes, task briefs, client profiles. Set it up once, use it forever.
The same tasks as a table, a kanban board, and a calendar. Notion views filter and display one dataset differently — nothing gets duplicated.
Select objects and let PowerPoint align and space them evenly. The difference between an amateur slide and a clean one.
View → Slide Master controls the look of the whole presentation from one place — fonts, colors, logos.
Ctrl+Shift+C
The format painter has a keyboard version — copy the look of one element and stamp it onto the next.
Ctrl+P
Quick search finds a page by title and by content. In a growing workspace, it's the only navigation that makes sense.