How smart to use ChatGPT and allow yourself more free time
If there’s one thing we could all use to improve our lives, it’s more time in the day to enjoy ourselves, see friends and family, and relax. One of the promises made by the wave of generative AI bots is that they will improve our daily functioning. So does this also apply to allowing more free time?
There are several ways you can use it ChatGPT (or another bot, like Gemini or Copilot) to try to save time, but your free time can then vary depending on the exact tasks you need to do and how many of those tasks you’re willing to offload. Here are some ideas.
Let ChatGPT do the time-consuming tasks
ChatGPT has often proven its mettle in generating generic bunches of auto-correcting text and creating rather odd-looking images that often ignore the laws of physics. There are tasks it can take on for you beyond creating quirky poetry and photos with obvious AI involvement.
Sending emails: Don’t waste time composing emails – ask ChatGPT to do it for you. Just specify the context, what you want to say and the style in which you want to say it, and the AI bot will produce a block of appropriate text without any problems.
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However, you might be able to use this to a limited extent. For shorter emails, it’s quicker to do it yourself, and for the important ones – your parents, your boss, the bank manager – you should probably take your time and give your message a human touch.
Summarizing articles: This can be a real time saver. Point ChatGPT at an article on the web or a document on your computer, and it can summarize and pick out the main points for you—saving you from having to wade through the entire text yourself.
Data processing and coding: If you need to crunch data or structure it in new ways as part of your daily routine, ChatGPT can help you in many situations. You can ask it to look for patterns in the data, for example, or have it render something in HTML or produce an Excel or Google Sheets formula to handle the data you have.
It can save you time to manually code what you need, even if you know the code. Again, these AI chatbots are not foolproof and you may need to make some changes along the way, but remember, you can always ask additional questions if something isn’t working or isn’t clear.
Get ChatGPT to better plan your time
Another approach is to actually ask ChatGPT to schedule your time. This works better when you’re more specific, otherwise you’ll just get a lot of AI text phrases like “prioritize tasks” and “limit distractions”. If you want the chatbot to be as helpful as possible, tell it about your plan.
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Prioritizing tasks: If you give ChatGPT a list of functions, it can advise you which ones are most important and even which ones can be combined. The more information you provide – this could mean listing the tools you need, perhaps the time you think each task will take, or how motivated you are to do each task – the better the results.
So, for example, you can come up with a list of chores you need to do around the house, from painting the fence to changing a light bulb to cleaning the driveway. Enter information such as the difficulty of the job, the tools you need, and even the weather forecast, and you’ll get a smart schedule from ChatGPT.
Manage your schedule: The ChatGPT feed contains details of all your commitments and can optimize your schedule, saving time along the way. As before, the more detailed you can be with the information here, the better, advises Gizmodo.
Trying this with a mix of personal and business commitments – so meetings, gym sessions, family trips, even watching movies – works pretty well. Recommendations about saving time are usually well-reasoned (you can also add additional details, such as wanting to fit in more personal time or wanting to learn a new hobby). Maybe ChatGPT can spot patterns in your schedule that you wouldn’t otherwise notice.
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Time estimation: ChatGPT is adept at figuring out how long individual tasks will take—or rather, the text it’s trained on includes some reasonable estimates from real human beings. If you’re not sure how long you should spend cleaning the bathroom or building a treehouse, ChatGPT can help.
Of course, you have to include some details here — how big your bathroom is, for example — but that can reduce the risk of messing up your schedule. Even better, the AI bot can tell you the materials and tools needed for each job, which should mean you won’t waste time because you don’t have what you need.
Source: BIZLife
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