Productivity guides
Step-by-step AI guides tagged Productivity.
Set up a daily AI habit that survives week two
The problem is almost never the tool. It is that nothing in your day reminds you to use it, so you defau...
Read guideAutomate a repetitive task with AI in an afternoon
Not every repeated job is worth automating, and the ones that are follow a pattern. This walks through c...
Read guideRun an AI pilot that produces a decision, not a demo
A pilot that cannot fail is not a pilot. Setting the success threshold before you start is what turns an...
Read guideWrite an AI usage policy your team will actually follow
A restrictive AI policy does not stop people using AI. It stops them telling you, which is considerably...
Read guideConnect two apps with an AI step in the middle
The genuinely useful automations are not the clever ones. They are a trigger, one AI step that makes a s...
Read guideEstimate what an AI feature will cost you per month
Per-token pricing looks trivially cheap and routinely surprises people at the invoice. The gap is almost...
Read guideWrite ad variants and test them properly
AI removes the cost of writing variants, which makes it very easy to run tests that cannot teach you any...
Read guideKnow when an agent is the wrong answer
A surprising share of agent projects would work better, cheaper and more reliably as a script with one m...
Read guideWrite a reusable prompt template your whole team can use
A prompt that only works in your hands is a prompt with your context silently baked in. Making it portab...
Read guideTurn a script into a watchable AI video
Generating clips is the easy part. What separates a watchable AI video from a slideshow is pacing, conti...
Read guideWritten to be followed, not skimmed
Every guide here is a procedure someone actually ran, with the steps, the time it takes and the places it goes wrong.
Numbered steps, not prose
Each guide breaks into steps with their own anchor, so you can send a colleague straight to step four. Those anchors are minted once and never move.
Levels you can read without colour
Beginner to Expert, shown as filled pips as well as a label, so the level survives a screenshot, a colourblind reader and a printout.
An honest time estimate
The minutes on each card are the sum of its steps, not a reading speed. Guides without an estimate sort last rather than first — an unknown length is not a short one.
Freshness that means something
“Updated” moves only when a person changed the content — never when someone read it. Sorting evergreen guides any other way ranks whatever was most recently opened.
Filters that admit when they are empty
Every count is measured with your other filters applied, so the number beside an option is what you will actually get. Options that cannot narrow anything are not offered.
Prerequisites up front
What you need before you start, and what you will be able to do at the end, are stated before the first step — not discovered halfway through.
