AI Meets Productivity

Ever start a task or project thinking you have a good idea of what you need to do and how long it will take—then as you get into it, you discover all these "hidden tasks"?

In today's episode, ChatGPT and I explore the world of hidden tasks: what they are, how to identify them earlier and strategies for navigating them.

Today's episode is a preview of a discussion I recorded with Francis Wade of the Task Management & Time Blocking podcast about the same topic. Subscribe to his podcast to get that episode when it is released.  

Do you get too many notifications? This week we explore a practical framework that can help you evaluate when and how to configure your notifications, along with actionable advice on personalizing your notification settings to reduce digital distractions and enhance your overall productivity.

This episode is based on the Day Optimizer article Why “Zero Notifications” Is Unproductive. Read the article for further details about the framework and how to use it.

Ever wonder what you can use voice mode for in ChatGPT? In today's episode, we start by discussing 3 ways to effectively use voice mode—then add 2 more scenarios where voice mode can be useful. Take a listen and leave a comment if you've discovered other ways to use ChatGPT's voice mode. 

How can you create more effective New Year's resolutions? In today's episode, ChatGPT and I talk about different types of resolutions, how to create interlocking resolutions and how to structure your resolutions throughout your year so you can use them to create positive change in your life.

How can you quickly do an annual review? Learn how to combine the +/-/next reflection technique with instinctive drafting to quickly generate an annual review. Stay tuned to the end to hear ChatGPT's own annual review! 

Links:

• Year In Review Workshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTT5cEiReOk

Retrieval-Augmented Prompting is a new technique that allows meta GPTs to be built that can switch between different modes, roles or process steps using custom instructions that are retrieved from an API via actions.

See the Medium article Retrieval-Augmented Prompting: Enabling prompt switching in GPTs for details.

Join ChatGPT and Trevor Lohrbeer as they unravel the often-confused concepts of task and time management. Is "task curation" a better name for "task management" and what are the 5 key aspects of time management?

Listen to find out! And stay until the end to hear ChatGPT's tips for using ChatGPT to help you with your task and time management. 

Links:

What's the Difference Between Task Management & Productivity: bit.ly/TaskVsTimeManagement

Learn how GPTs can express a wide range of emotions by altering how they output text, and how that text then creates a wider emotional range when translated into speech. In this episode, we also discuss how a wider range of emotions can help listeners connect with the material of a podcast more, and potential future developments of voice recognition and generation specific to AIs.

In this introductory episode of AI Meets Productivity, ChatGPT and Trevor Lohrbeer discuss how adding emotion into prompts for AI models like ChatGPT can enhance the results, based on a recent paper describing a technique called EmotionPrompt.