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ChatGPT for Productivity Want to get more done in less time? Try these prompts:👇 1. “Create a daily routine for me as a [student/entrepreneur/professional].” 2. “Break my weekly tasks into a step-by-step action plan.” 3. “Generate a time-blocked calendar for [project or exam prep].” 4. “Suggest tools and methods to stay focused while working on [task].” 5. “Summarize the top 3 productivity hacks for [field].” 6. “Design a 30-day habit tracker for [goal].”

Have you tried vibe coding your ideas? In our latest Vibe Coding Challenge, Mark and I used ChatGPT + Bolt.new to spin up a lightweight “Notes + mini-CRM” for meeting summaries. Not for sale, just showing what’s possible when you build your own internal tools. What we demo (clip ~20:30–21:34): • Paste rough notes → click Generate Summary (ChatGPT under the hood) • Auto TL;DR, Key Takeaways, Action Items + the original transcript • Each meeting saves as its own entry you can click back into • True MVP vibes (we hadn’t even added “delete” yet 😅) • All built in Bolt.new with prompts + a small scaffold Why this matters: • 💸 Cut subscriptions you don’t need • 🔒 Keep data in your own workspace • ⚡ Build small, useful tools fast — summaries, CRM-ish tracking, even a simple Kanban — with ChatGPT + Bolt Want the prompts and Bolt structure we used? Comment VIBE and I’ll share a starter. #VibeCoding #ChatGPT #BoltNew #AIinUX #Productivity #MVP #BuildInPublic #DigitalNexus

Why should your website have a chatbot like Chatlys? 👉Think about how people use the internet today. They come to your site with a goal in mind: find information, understand your offer, or decide whether to take action. If they don’t find the answer quickly, they leave — and often never return. That’s exactly the problem Chatlys solves. ⚡ Instant setup – Just add your URL and a single line of code. Chatlys crawls your website, learns from your existing content, and is ready to talk within minutes. 🧠 Real knowledge, no hallucinations – Unlike generic bots, Chatlys answers based on your own pages, FAQs, or documents. 💬 Natural, multilingual conversations – Whether your visitors speak English or another language, Chatlys adapts. 📊 Full control & insights – See what people ask, which answers work best, and how engagement grows. With Chatlys, your website stops being a static brochure. It becomes an interactive assistant available 24/7 — guiding visitors, reducing support workload, and increasing conversions. 🚀 The future of customer interaction is already here. Ready to let your website speak for itself? Try Chatlys for free https://www.chatlys.com/

5 AI Tools That Saved Me 10+ Hours This Week (No coding. No overwhelm.) Still doing these manually? → Writing every post from scratch → Repeating the same 20 DM replies → Manually onboarding every new lead You don’t need to. Here’s how I’ve automated all that without hiring a team: 1. ChatGPT For idea generation, rewriting, even replying to cold DMs. I use custom instructions to match my voice + tone. 2. Zapier I use it to connect Gmail, Notion, and Calendly so leads are tracked automatically, no spreadsheets needed. 3. PhantomBuster My go-to for LinkedIn lead gen. It sends personalized DMs, follows up, and even scrapes ICP profiles. 4. tally.so + Chatbase Tally collects leads. Chatbase answers FAQs 24/7 with a smart chatbot trained on your brand. 5. OpusClip Takes a long Zoom call or podcast and turns it into 10 short videos captioned, branded, and ready to post. I didn’t hire more people. I built systems that work like one. → Follow me for more AI tools, prompts, and workflows to simplify your work. → Repost if you found this helpful for your business or brand.

I used to leave calls with pages of notes and unclear next steps. Now? I pull on every call quickly, thanks to one workflow I’m fully obsessed with. Here’s how it works: 1. Get the OK & record the call (Zoom, Granola, whatever). 2. Drop the transcript into Google Docs. 3. Pull it into ChatGPT via a Connector and ask: What actually matters to this customer? How did their priorities shift? Where did they lean in vs. pull back? 4. Draft the follow-up email quickly using Wispr Flow. 5. Use ChatGPT as your editor. It scores your draft against the transcript, catching nuance you missed, and tunes it until it’s best-in-class. All against what matters most to your customer. You’re not just summarizing. You’re anthropomorphizing the call. It starts talking back! Now I’ve got an Einstein-level assistant surfacing emotion, intent, hesitation - and shaping my positioning so it actually lands. Whole thing takes ~3 minutes. We’ve baked this into ChatWalrus as just one of 100+ micro AI trainings & workflows (new ones drop constantly). And it’s not just for sales. Works just as well with your boss, your colleagues, your investors. Want the walkthrough? Happy to show you.

How I built a jewelry certification system without writing a single line of code. At Kaiser Edelsteine, our product palette is growing fast — and we needed our own certification system for authenticity. The problem? Most employees are not fans of new tools or software. The solution had to be simple, practical, and scalable. I’m not a programmer. But I am an advanced ChatGPT user and I’ve been studying Excel macros to solve business problems. Here’s what I built 👇 ✔️ A professional jewelry certificate template with all product specifications + unique serial number ✔️ Employees open an Excel file → press start → fields reset ✔️ Enter product data → print certificate ✔️ Press save → macro stores the serial number + product specs in a database sheet Now we don’t just issue certificates. We also have a searchable internal database to check every number for authenticity. This is content strategy in action. Not just posting, not just SEO, not just “making content.” But designing systems that build trust, structure, and long-term value. Think broad. Build sustainable. Solve problems. #ContentStrategy #BusinessSolutions #DigitalTransformation #ExcelMacros #ChatGPT #JewelryBusiness #KaiserEdelsteine

⏱️ Stop spending hours on reports you could automate in 5 minutes. If your workflow looks like this every week or month: 📥 Grab the same data dump 🧹 Clean it the same way 📊 Rebuild the same pivots or dashboards …you’re doing a robot’s job manually. Here’s the twist: The same steps, repeated, can be fully automated with a tiny script (yes, even one you can write with ChatGPT). It can: 🌐 Scrape the data from your source ✨ Clean it automatically 📈 Build pivots/tables/dashboards 📧 Draft the email—To, CC, BCC, subject, and body—ready to send All automated. All repeatable. All done while you sip your coffee ☕. It’s not magic—it’s scaling your routine. A few lines of code can save you hours every week, freeing you for higher-impact work. 🎥 I recorded a quick demo showing the full process. 💡 Want a starter script to plug into your workflow? 👉 Drop a comment or DM—I’ll share it. 🚀

When people talk about A.I. and its limitations they're often talking about the answer that ChatGPT gives them - and often that requires a lot of prompting. Well... We've figured out how to use A.I. to extract the best thinking from the team. Instead of just prompting ChatGPT to come up with answers for us, we have meetings with our smartest and most experienced people - record and transcribe them - and then use ChatGPT to turn that transcript into a: ✅ Marketing strategy ✅ Insights report ✅ Creative brief ✅ Sales proposal ✅ Award submission ✅ Case study ✅ Or anything else that needs to be written Using ChatGPT as an expert can help you get where you want to go, faster. But feeding it a transcript and then prompting it, is next level. THIS is how to get the best outputs from ChatGPT. We call this system the V2O Framework and we're running an exclusive training where we'll show a select group of businesses how we use it at Webprofits, and how they can integrate it into their businesses the very next day. We've been building this system over the last 2 years and have developed SOPs, agenda templates, master prompts for different outputs, and (most importantly) figured out the best way to integrate it across a team. And we'll be sharing everything we've learnt - including all the resources, processes and documentation we have - in our upcoming V2O Framework training on October 9. Basically, you'll be getting 2 years of Webprofits Innovation in a single session for just $990. If you run a business that requires any type of strategic thinking and documentation, then this will be the best investment you make this year. OR you can try to figure this stuff out by yourself ;) If you're interested, link to training in comments.

I recently built a family chore-tracker in Notion. It turned into a mini-project that proves I’m the same person at home as I am at work. 1️⃣ I looked at templates. None had everything I wanted, but they helped me shape what I needed and inspired me to build my own. 2️⃣ I created a shared database. As a family, we brainstormed all the tasks that keep the house running, plus frequency, priority, and effort for each. 3️⃣ I added assignees, a “Complete” checkbox, and points (inspired by Agile story points). A quick graph turned chores into a competition. 4️⃣ I built a “Done” button that marks tasks complete and automatically creates a new one based on frequency. (Side note: ChatGPT told me this wasn’t possible. ChatGPT was wrong.) 5️⃣ Finally, I made a user-friendly dashboard: overdue and upcoming tasks highlighted, points tallied by person, and an easy “Assign to me” button. Key takeaways: 🔸Technology needs to support the process, not drive it. 🔸Automations are key to adoption: make it easy. 🔸Gamification works; people (especially teens!) love earning points. 🔸Don’t accept the first “it’s not possible” you hear. Next up: Moving my bare-bones CRM from Google Sheets into Notion. 👉 What’s the coolest thing you’ve built in Notion (or another tool) that’s made your work or life easier?

🚀 AI Win: 10x Productivity with 2-Minute Automation on Mac Ever found yourself copying text from Slack, Cursor, or email just to paste it into ChatGPT to summarize or rephrase? It’s a daily ritual—and a repetitive one. 🤯 Here’s a tiny automation that saves me countless steps every day: ✅ Works across any macOS app (Slack, email, Cursor, browser, literally anything). ✅ No need to switch context — just select text, hit a shortcut, and boom 💥 ✅ No plugins or dev tools required — just macOS Automator + AppleScript ⚙️ What It Does: With a single keyboard shortcut: Grabs selected text Opens ChatGPT (desktop app) Automatically types: “Please Summarize this: [your text]” Hits return 🔁 I configured mine for rephrasing, but you can easily tweak it for rephrasing, shortening, or tone adjustment. ⌨️ Setup Takes < 2 Minutes Open Automator → Quick Action Use a simple AppleScript (DM me if you need it) Bind to a keyboard shortcut like Cmd+Shift+S 🎯 Results This tiny script gives me 10x productivity. No tab switching. No pasting. No wasted clicks. Perfect for writing, replying, documenting, or reviewing.