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

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 · 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 · 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.

Bold, italics, and lists: WhatsApp can format text

Asterisks around a word make it bold, underscores make it italic, a dash makes a bullet. A longer work message suddenly looks like a document.

Vertical tabs: on a wide monitor, read names, not icons

Edge and Firefox can move your tabs into a column on the side. Twenty tabs with readable titles instead of a row of nameless little teeth.

Ctrl+Shift+D saves every tab into a single bookmarks folder

Ctrl+Shift+D

Have to close your browser right now but you're mid-research with twenty tabs open? One shortcut saves them all as a bookmarks folder.

Page behaving strangely? Try a hard refresh with Ctrl+F5

Ctrl+F5

Broken layout, an old version, a button that doesn't respond — Ctrl+F5 forces the browser to download the page again, from scratch.

Multipoint: headphones connected to your computer and phone at once

Music from your laptop, and when the phone rings, the headphones switch to the call on their own. A feature your headphones probably have — turned off.

Message yourself in Slack: a notepad that's always open

Slack has a conversation with just you — a private space for notes, links, and half-written messages, synced between your computer and phone.

IMPORTRANGE: connect two Google Sheets live

One function pulls data from another spreadsheet into yours — and keeps it current. No more manually copying numbers between files.

Jump to any slide while presenting: type the number, hit Enter

During a slideshow, type a slide number and press Enter — you're there. No clicking back through twenty slides in front of an audience.

The Selection Pane: click an object hidden under everything else

Can't grab an object buried under an image with your mouse? The Selection Pane lists every element on the slide — pick by clicking in the list, not by hunting on the canvas.

Slim down a presentation: compress images right inside PowerPoint

Presentation is 80 MB and won't go through email? Built-in image compression shrinks it to a fraction of the size — two clicks, no visible loss.

Ctrl+D in PowerPoint: a duplicate that remembers the spacing

Ctrl+D

Duplicate an object, move it into place — and the next Ctrl+D copies with the same offset built in. A row of evenly spaced elements in seconds.

Open a QR code from a screenshot without a second phone

You can't scan a code on your own screen with the camera. But you can hold your finger on it in Photos, or open it through Google Lens.

A shortcut for resizing images: right-click instead of online tools

Build your own Quick Action in the Shortcuts app in five minutes — select photos, right-click, and they're the right size for email.

Finder Quick Actions: PDF from photos and background removal with a right-click

Select photos, right-click, Create PDF — done. Finder's Quick Actions can even convert formats or remove a background without opening an editor.

Close Twenty Tabs With Three Clicks

Right-click a tab for “Close other tabs” or “Close tabs to the right.” And Ctrl+click selects multiple tabs at once.

A New Version of a File in Google Drive: The Link Stays the Same

Don't upload a corrected PDF as another file. Manage versions swaps it out under the same link — for everyone who has it.

An @ Comment in Google Docs Can Assign a Task

Mention a colleague in a comment and check Assign — a remark turns into a task with an owner, one that can only be resolved once it's done.

Screenshot the Whole Page — Even the Part You Have to Scroll To

Ctrl+Shift+S

Edge and Firefox capture an entire web page from header to footer with a single command. No extensions, no stitching pieces together.

Quick Share: Files From Android to Windows, No Cable

AirDrop's counterpart is built into every newer Android phone — and with a free app from Google it sends photos and files to Windows too.

Test Data on Demand: Fictional but Realistic

Testing a spreadsheet, a form, or a mailing? Have AI generate fifty fictional rows with names and amounts instead of copying real data.

Word on the Tip of Your Tongue: AI as a Reverse Dictionary

You know the meaning but not the word? Describe it to AI and get ten candidates with the shades of difference between them. Works for technical terms and cliché-free synonyms too.

Mail Merge in Czech: Let AI Get the Vocative Case Right

In Czech, “Dear Mr. Novák” is wrong — it has to be “Dear Mr. Nováku,” the vocative case. AI adds a properly-declined salutation column to your contact table, for hundreds of names at once.

Smart Quotes and Dashes: Typographic Proofreading by AI

Before you publish, have AI fix only the typography: smart quotes, dashes instead of hyphens, spacing around numbers and units. It leaves the wording alone.