Topic
Productivity
72 articles
September 16, 2026
AI Prompts for Business: What to Ask, by Function
Business prompts that hold up, organized by team — sales, marketing, finance, ops, HR — plus the context each one needs and the tasks to keep away from AI.
September 16, 2026
Master Prompt: How to Write One You Actually Reuse
A master prompt is a reusable brief that sets context once instead of every chat. What goes in one, where to store it, and the built-in features that do it better.
September 16, 2026
Using AI to Start a Business: A Week-by-Week Guide
How to use AI to go from idea to first paying customer: validation, interviews, naming, a business plan, paperwork, a landing page, and first marketing.
September 14, 2026
AI Assistant Capabilities: What They Can and Can't Do
What AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Siri can actually do in 2026, where they still fall short, and the traits that make one trustworthy.
September 13, 2026
Reading Glossary Builder: Map Articles to Your Terms
A local-first app that maps an article to your own term list: highlights, context excerpts, coverage, and a learning queue. No AI, no network.
September 13, 2026
AFFiNE Workspace Blueprint: Markdown Project Plans
A skill that turns a project, topic, event, or goal into an offline Markdown workspace with linked pages, fields, and a Mermaid map. Not the AFFiNE app.
September 13, 2026
Plain Language Skill: Explain Without Dumbing Down
An AI skill that rewrites dense technical material for a specific reader while keeping the numbers, conditions, and caveats that matter. How it works.
September 9, 2026
AI Source Finders: Tools That Cite, and How to Check
AI source finders answer with citations. Which tools really retrieve sources, the failure mode that matters, and a one-minute check.
September 9, 2026
AI Video Finders: Searching Inside Video
AI video search finds the moment, not the file. How transcript, visual, and semantic search differ, what each misses, and how to pick.
September 9, 2026
How to Use Manus AI: What It Does and How to Brief It
Manus takes a goal and produces a finished artifact — slides, a site, a design. How to brief it well, where it fits, and how to reuse what worked.
September 5, 2026
Notion AI Alternatives: You're Buying Context, Not a Model
Notion AI's advantage is that it can already see your workspace. That means the right alternative depends on where your content lives, not which model is best this month.
September 5, 2026
Raycast Alternatives: Launchers, Extensions, and the AI Layer
Raycast bundles a launcher, an extension store and a cloud AI subscription. Alternatives exist for each part — and Raycast is no longer Mac-only, which changes the shortlist.
September 5, 2026
Raycast vs Alfred: A Cloud Platform vs a Local Mac App
The two launchers have diverged. Raycast is becoming a cross-platform AI platform with an account behind it; Alfred stays a local macOS app you buy once. That's the choice.
September 1, 2026
AI Tools for Administrative Tasks: What Helps
Which admin work AI genuinely handles — scheduling, notes, expenses, inbox triage — and which tasks still cost more to automate than to just do.
September 1, 2026
Future of Work With AI Agents: What Changes
AI agents change the shape of a job before they change the headcount. What shifts first, which tasks resist automation, and how to prepare for either outcome.
September 1, 2026
Virtual Assistant Software: The Working Stack
The software virtual assistants actually run — task, comms, time tracking, scheduling, and security — plus which categories a VA can safely skip.
August 31, 2026
AI Agents for Small Businesses: What Pays Off
Which AI agents genuinely help a small business, which waste money, and how to start with one task instead of a platform. Practical, with real limits stated.
August 31, 2026
AI Prompt Enhancers: What They Fix
Prompt enhancers rewrite your prompt before it reaches the model. What they genuinely improve, when they make things worse, and how to do it yourself free.
August 31, 2026
Prompt Frameworks: Which Ones Are Worth Using
RTF, CRISPE, COSTAR and other prompt engineering frameworks compared. What each acronym covers, where they overlap, and when a checklist beats a formula.
August 31, 2026
Prompt Libraries: Building One Your Team Uses
How to build a company prompt library people actually open — what to store, who owns it, and why most prompt databases are abandoned within a quarter.
August 28, 2026
AI Executive Assistant: What It Can Run
An AI EA handles scheduling, inbox triage, and prep well and judgment badly. The five jobs worth delegating, and the permission line to hold.
August 28, 2026
AI Meeting Notes: How to Pick a Notetaker
AI notetakers split into bot-joiners, device recorders, and platform-native. What each gets right, the consent rules, and how to get usable minutes.
August 28, 2026
Best ChatGPT Prompts: Patterns That Work
Prompt lists go stale. The six patterns behind every good ChatGPT prompt, worked examples you can copy, and why saving the process beats saving the prompt.
August 28, 2026
How Do I Use AI? A Practical Starting Guide
A concrete first month with AI — the four tasks to start on, what to avoid early, and how to tell whether it's actually saving you time.
