Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast - Ep 835: Inside Everyday AI: My 9 most Used AI Tools and Workflows

Starting point is 00:00:00 This is the Everyday AI show, the Everyday Podcast where we simplify AI and bring its power to your fingertips. Listen daily for practical advice to boost your career, business, and everyday life. One of the most common questions I get is how I use AI every day. So on today's episode, I'm going to tell you everything. And the answer to that question, obviously, has changed drastically over the years as quickly as the AI offerings themselves have changed. which is all the time. But I feel over the last few months at least, my usage has gotten consistent enough

Starting point is 00:00:38 that I feel I can make this episode and not have it be obsolete in like two weeks. Because after using thousands of AI tools and modes over the years, it might be able to save yourself a few hundred hours and just copy some of my workflows and see what sticks. So on today's show, I'm going to give you a little behind the scenes on not only my nine most used AI tools and workflows, but also maybe some hot takes and trends on AI tool use in general along the way.

Starting point is 00:01:07 So we're going to go inside everyday AI and go over my nine most use AI tools and workflows that power my day. All right. Let's get into it on today's show. Here's what you're going to learn my nine most used AI tools and workflows. You're going to know why I sometimes build my own AI tools. And I think you should too. and I'm going to tell you why obviously Codex Pilled, yet still using Claude, Gemini, and other tools.

Starting point is 00:01:38 All right, let's get into it. Welcome to Everyday AI. If you knew here, my name's Jordan and we do this every day. It's for you. It's your unedited, unscripted daily, live stream podcast, and free daily newsletter, helping business leaders like you and me not just keep up, but get ahead. I tell you what works, what doesn't? You take that information, all those saved hours, and you grow your company and your career.

Starting point is 00:01:59 So if that's what you're trying to do, sweet starts here. Make sure if you haven't already, please subscribe with the podcast and then go to our website at your EverydayAI.com. The website is also always in our show notes there. We're going to be recapping the highlights from today's episode and giving you all the AI news and developments you need to know to stay ahead. All right. We'll see if this one sticks, right?

Starting point is 00:02:22 Watch. Watch later today. Obviously, it's Thursday. Big releases always come on on Thursday. They watch everything change today. But I feel, honestly, for the first time in a very long time, you know, my, my usage in terms of AI tools has not completely changed, you know, in three months, right? It's been fairly consistent. And some of those reasons is because I think there's, you know, one harness that will not be dethroned anytime soon.

Starting point is 00:02:54 And kind of the move, you know, going from, you know, AI that would. was mainly web-based to AI that lives on your desktop and agents that live on your desktop. I think it made the, maybe the models less important. I think it maybe made some of the modes, you know, like your deep research and your, you know, plugins and artifacts, all these things. I think it made those things a little less important. And honestly, between the models and the modes, I think there's actually a bit of parity. right, whereas maybe two years ago when a new model came out, it was such a big gap.

Starting point is 00:03:32 It was like first place and second place. Now, at least recently, between Open AI and Anthropic, it's usually one A and one B and then they flip flop, right? But the harness itself, and this is why I think my usage has been so consistent probably since February, has made all the difference. So before I go into my nine most used tools and workflows, a little precursor. first. Speaking of the harness,

Starting point is 00:04:02 I'm obviously Codex Pilt. If you've been listening to the show at all since February, I've been saying this. I've called it. I said, Claude it's going to lose its lead, right? Obviously, hats off to Anthropic. They really kicked off

Starting point is 00:04:16 the agenic desktop era with ClaudeCode desktop in December, followed up by Claude Co-work in January, but they've just been getting smoked and it's not even close in February. And, you know, I always, I always will use the best overall tool no matter what, right? And, you know, throughout the years, I've had the most expensive plans to, you know, I was on the perplexity $200 plan, you know, using their computer. I've been on

Starting point is 00:04:47 the Google Ultra plan. I think when it was like $300 a month or whatever it used to be. You know, I currently have a clawed, you know, 200, and an Open AI 200 Macs plan. So I've used them all, right? And I still use all of them to this day. But the majority of my time now is really in Codex. It isn't a league of its own. I don't think, you know, cursor will catch them.

Starting point is 00:05:14 Although I am glad that cursor added, you know, some simple Google connectors this week. I don't think Claude will catch. And also, I want you to first think about your workflow. And the reason why I say those things is because I know our audience, you know, yes, there's obviously very technical people. There's builders who listen to this show. But for the most part, our audience is, you know, non-technical business leaders who are doing,

Starting point is 00:05:41 you know, non-technical work, right? So that's where my lens is coming through this. So, you know, if you're just like as an example, software developer, maybe Claude is best, right? Or maybe cursor is best. but if you are someone that is, you know, not just 100% writing code, codex, like I said, in a league of its own. And I don't see it being caught anytime soon. Okay. So with that all of the way, I do want you to know that this is just based on my own

Starting point is 00:06:10 workflows as well. Your usage is obviously going to bury and keep that in mind, right? So take that with a giant grain of salt. This isn't definitive, but I would say for the average non-technical AI user, like I'm saying, steal for my thousand. of hours over the years of using all these tools. What I'm saying, am I, you know, do I have a preference? Absolutely. Am I telling you the truth? Yes.

Starting point is 00:06:34 All right. So just getting that out of the way. Also, another thing to keep in mind, my usage has really shifted. Right. Back in January, I was probably only 10% desktop, right? Because the only big desktop player at the time was, you know, cursor and Claudecode. Right. So I was using Claudecode about 10% of the time and never everything else was on the web. Obviously, today that's complete opposite. So today I'm like 90%

Starting point is 00:06:59 using everything on the desktop. So that's mainly codex, but also using ClaudeCode, Claude, code, code, co-work, you know, cursor, anti-gravity, Gemini on the desktop, right? For the most part, I am desktop agentic harness through and through, right? Even for non-technical knowledge work, that's what I'm using. But like I said, I'm really only using, you know, Claude and Gemini desktop anti-gravity cursor, so I understand them, right? So I have a comparison. And so when I tell you, yeah, Codex slaps everyone else. That comes from facts, not just like a preference, right?

Starting point is 00:07:35 So anytime there are new updates, I'm always using them, I'm always testing them, you know, doing some of my own, you know, internal benchmarks and use cases. So I know what's best for different types of work. The other thing to know is I am very bullish. on agent control and agent co-working. And I'm going to tell you what those things are, right? I'm, you know, kind of taking you behind the scenes here at everyday AI and how I work and, you know, how we kind of run things.

Starting point is 00:08:05 But one thing to keep in mind is not everyone can work like this either. And I'm not saying that from a skills perspective because it's not difficult. I'm just saying from a data in permissions perspective, right? I am having agents literally running around the clock doing everything on my computer. full control, full yolo mode. I know that's not for everyone, right? If you work at a big enterprise, even if you've gotten permission to use Claude Desktop or Codex,

Starting point is 00:08:31 you may not be able to do a lot of these things. So keep that in mind. But if you are a small business owner or if your company has taken off all restraints and you can just do whatever you want, well, let's, let's have some fun. All right, here we go. I'm not going to make you wait any longer. Here's my nine most use AI tools and workflows.

Starting point is 00:08:51 And then we're going to dive into each one, individually. So number one, I have my third shift stats agent. Number two, I have my third shift comms triage. Number three, I have my chat GPT sites to iMessage. That one's a little specific. Number four, I have my parrot dictation app that I built. Number five, I have my episode planning research. Number six, my AI app design. Number seven, Jev and I notebook study. Also previously known as notebook L.LM. So did a show on that yesterday. Number eight, Codex skill building.

Starting point is 00:09:30 And number nine, remote chat, GPT, walk and talk. All right. Let's get into it. Number one, third shift agents for stats. All right. First, let me describe what third shift agents are. Well, they're agents that work third shift, right? Usually I'm up working fairly late, but let's just say my agents usually work.

Starting point is 00:09:52 about 11 to 5, right? Every single night. A lot of things are scheduled. And then I will also usually give it my toughest problem or set of problems to codex every single night kind of before I go to bed. I'll use subagents. I'll use goal mode. I'll use plan mode.

Starting point is 00:10:11 All right. And if you're wondering like what the heck is all of that stuff, we did an episode. Let me bring up the number. Let me bring up the number on that one. It was number... Are you still running in circles trying to figure out how to actually grow your business with AI? Maybe your company has been tinkering with large language models for a year or more, but can't really get traction to find ROI on Gen.

Starting point is 00:10:42 Hey, this is Jordan Wilson, host of this very podcast. Companies like Adobe, Microsoft, and Nvidia have partnered with us because they trust our expertise in educating the masses around generative AI to get ahead. And some of the most innovative companies in the country hire us to help with their AI strategy and to train hundreds of their employees on how to use Gen AI. So whether you're looking for chat GPD training for thousands

Starting point is 00:11:06 or just need help building your front-end AI strategy, you can partner with us too, just like some of the biggest companies in the world do. Go to your everyday AI.com slash partner to get in contact with our team. Or you can just click on the partner section of our website. We'll help you stop running in those AI circles. and help get your team ahead and build a straight path to ROI on Gen A.

Starting point is 00:11:33 Come on. There it is. Episode 806, part of the Start Here series where we went over desktop agent lingo simplified, talking about goals, loops, plans, subagents, and how those work in codex and Claudecodecode. So go listen to that one. But essentially, my probably most used AI is not even me, right? I set these up.

Starting point is 00:11:57 It happens third shift. My agents are working, you know, 11 to five. And then I wake up to things that are done. So let me tell you specifically what my third shift stats agents are. And again, I want you to think what just because I'm doing mine, right? Don't try to, you know, make my workflow fit your work. Instead, just see the path that I'm taking and apply it to yours. Okay.

Starting point is 00:12:19 So essentially inside, well, even on the web, but also on the desktop, uh, there's certain, you know, pieces of software or apps that you use. that connect really nicely to Chad GBT, Claude, Gemini, co-pilot, etc. And then there's some that don't. So for me, for everything that doesn't, right, it needs either computer use, browser use, or Chrome. Okay, so actually in Codex and Chad GBT work,

Starting point is 00:12:49 which are literally the same thing, right? So I'm using just Codex because it's just a little cleaner. And I usually use Codex, but, you know, it's interchangeable. So, FYI, when I'm saying Codex, I also mean chat GBT work, which if you go to chat GBT and download it, that's what you're going to get. So you can do these same things in chat GvT work, which is the desktop version of chat GPT. Right.

Starting point is 00:13:09 But there's three different ways that these agents can use your computer in instances where there's not a direct connection or where there's not an MCP or model context protocol server. So in my case, right, we use BuzzSpraught. So that is, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, podcast, you know, thanks to you all that listen. It's, you know, downloaded millions of times. And essentially, I didn't see this going in when I started the podcast because I'm like, no one's going to listen. And apparently millions of people every year do. And so there's just

Starting point is 00:13:43 some stats that I really need that just aren't readily available by clicking export or by me going in and pulling up a couple screens on a couple monitors. Like I have to do usually about 30 or so minutes of work every single day. just pulling these metrics in, exporting certain things, and it is time-consuming, and I don't like doing it. So this is my third shift stats agent. So it does a lot of comparisons. I have daily benchmarks. You know, as an example, you know, our Wednesdays, AI at Wednesdays, you know, sorry, AI at work Wednesdays or working Wednesdays, you know, as we call them, right? I know that every single day, you know, Thursday at, you know, 9 a.m. that shows, you know, should have like as an example, 11,500 downloads or something like

Starting point is 00:14:31 that. Right. So I know every day that it can go in there. It can see if that is the case. It can go look at the last one from last Wednesday. Is it still getting a certain number? So I have all these kind of formulas that show me not only how popular a show is, but how does it do in its normal time slot or in its normal day slot versus others, right? For Tuesday and Thursday shows that maybe I don't have recurring shows on. So I have all, you know, I had Codex make all these kind of formulas and it goes in. It pulls all these stats. You know, go look at day by day stats, which I can't export.

Starting point is 00:15:02 Show me which, you know, shows are from two or three weeks ago are still maybe trending and, you know, getting two or three X what they should be getting at that point. So then I know that there's some evergreen appetite in that. And automatically, I have a skill. But if that happens, Codex is going to go start, you know, researching and find me more information on doing an updated show on that. So that's kind of my overnight agent. It also pulls information from our newsletter, which we use B-Hive.

Starting point is 00:15:28 So there is a model context protocol server for that. But even with that, there are some things that I can't get in there. As an example, we run an AB test on our newsletter every single day. In the MCP, I can't get that. So I have to go in. It uses for that, it uses browser control. It goes in, clicks, and finds all those things. So I have so many of these tasks that I used to do.

Starting point is 00:15:52 Right, right, two years ago, this is how I would start my day every day. You know, and if I was very focused, I could get it done in, you know, maybe like an hour. Now it's, you know, 30 seconds to overview something, which is great. One quick thing, at least in Codex, it's a little different in Claudeco, but in Codex, it's a little better. So they have a built-in browser. There is Chrome use, and then there's also a Chrome extension. and those two obviously work hand in hand

Starting point is 00:16:24 and then computer use. So, you know, the browser, there's actually a file in kind of the Atlas browser was retired into Codex, but there is a full-fledged chromium-based browser inside of Codex. So, you know, for many of these things, I do them inside of the browser in Codex, and I schedule them and they run overnight. Other times, you know, it might need to use a, as my second one here does. It might need to use Chrome because there's a Chrome extension involved.

Starting point is 00:16:55 All right. So that's my first one. But, you know, essentially it just helps me do multiple things at once. I don't want to go and click around. I don't want to, you know, copy and paste information in the spreadsheets. I don't want to be running formulas, right? I just wake up to an actionable briefing instead of spending my morning assembling one. All right.

Starting point is 00:17:17 Number two, again, this is another third shift agent. This is my comms triage. This one, my gosh, this is helpful. One of the reasons is I have, I don't know how or why. I have a personal Gmail. I have a Gmail account from my old company Accelerant agency. I have a Gmail and then I have two different Gmail accounts for everyday AI. And for whatever reason, people find all of them.

Starting point is 00:17:48 Maybe they're connected to LinkedIn. I don't know. I get spammed all the time. Right. We get, I don't know, more than a thousand people each and every year, you know, pitching to be a guest on the show, people reaching out about sponsorships, partnerships, partnerships, most of those I don't pay attention to, you know, collaborations, whatever. So there's a lot of those and then also LinkedIn, right? This podcast goes out on LinkedIn every single day. So people message me all the time. Sometimes I ask people to message me ideas, those kind of things. It's always me responding, right? But I do have agents go in and triage these things. So my second one is the codex triaging all of those things and telling me what's important, what I need to get to, and then also giving me draft responses. So I don't just have to sit at a blank stare email. Right.

Starting point is 00:18:36 And usually, at least within codex, I have these things set up within projects. So in each of these projects, you know, there's a markdown file that I can change very easily, update very easily, that give a set of directions to these things. So it can work with all my context. You know, I can give kind of custom instructions to each of these different, you know, projects. But this is good because, you know, in most AI systems, you know, Gemini, Claude, chat, GPT, co-pilot, you can only really work with one email connected. So this one's really helpful for me.

Starting point is 00:19:11 The way that I pull this off is, you know, just over time, I use the Codex record and replay skill a lot. But even this one, it doesn't always work. So I've had to really refine it over the years. But essentially, I have it launched Chrome profiles and go to, you know, Gmail.com for LinkedIn messages, right? I don't automate anything on LinkedIn because I don't want to get my LinkedIn banned. So I do have an extension in LinkedIn called condo, essentially. So I have, it just sinks all my, you know, LinkedIn messages. is it's a little quicker to go through.

Starting point is 00:19:50 The LinkedIn inbox is so slow. So essentially, I have a skill go in. It opens up a certain Chrome profile. It goes to LinkedIn.com, clicks on messages. That opens up a dedicated tab that has that Chrome extension that I need, which is why I do it through Chrome and not through the built-in browser. And then it can kind of go in, look at all my unreads, triage, find information there. So that's my second one.

Starting point is 00:20:13 So essentially, I can wake up every single day. I know every single stat, right? We put out a ton of content every day. We put so much effort into planning the shows, into how we deliver them, into the newsletter. And, you know, if I didn't have any guidance, I would just be guessing in the dark. Right. So it's great every day to have that in from my, you know, my, my third shift agents to have, you know, here's, here's what performed well. You know, above average, below average.

Starting point is 00:20:44 And then from a comms perspective, I don't have to go in. and check, you know, four different emails and going to LinkedIn. It's all just there for me. All right. Next, ChadGGBT sites to iMessage. All right. This one is great. If you're not using chatGBT sites, you are missing out.

Starting point is 00:21:06 Anthropic has a similar, a similar kind of option called artifacts, and there's live artifacts. I think there's great use cases for live artifacts. The reason why I still prefer sites is it's a full, like, lovable, right? If you've used lovable, basically anything you can do inside like lovable or bolts or any of those kind of vibe coding full, you know, almost like replet as well. That's what Chachibati sites is. I still think it is criminally underrated. It is so good. So there's so many things that you can do inside Chachieviti sites that you can't do in Clawed Artifacts, right?

Starting point is 00:21:42 One of those things is just better permission. so you can make things public. You can force login via chat GPT. You can share things with your team. Not quite as robust inside claw artifacts. But what I love doing in this case is I have templates and skills that I've saved that make sites just really easy to use on my phone. So there's certain criteria both from a design perspective.

Starting point is 00:22:10 I always have it build in light and dark mode. I always have it build in a font. where you can make it larger and smaller. And then I always have it built in kind of like a bookmark thing. So, you know, all these agents, when they do report these things to me, yes, it will be in line. But oftentimes I just have them update a preexisting site. And then what I do is I save those sites to my phone. So it's almost like I have agents updating these apps.

Starting point is 00:22:36 The great thing about chat chadjpd sites is it has databases. It's like read, right. So I can, you know, I have one that's like a little, you know, basic. CRM and I can, you know, just open my phone every morning, see what's new. I didn't do anything. It's just like literally, I have agents, you know, grabbing all this information, running it through my personal context, updating the quote unquote apps or chatypd sites that I use. And then if it's a new one, it sends it to me through I message and it sends it to my phone, right? Which is great. Yeah, people don't know. It's like, that's a, you know, it's actually a decent way,

Starting point is 00:23:10 right? I just tell it to go check text messages from Jordan. And I give it, you know, explicit, you know, say, hey, it's okay to text Jordan, Jordan only. It's actually one of my agent MD kind of instructions that go over all of my projects where it says, hey, you can open an eye message and text Jordan, no one else. All right. So that's the other one. I love this because I just get that continually updated personal apps without having to, you know, rebuild or maintain them. All right. Next one. I've never, I've referenced this like one. One. I've referenced this like once, but I've never really talked about parrot. Okay, so this is one that I built.

Starting point is 00:23:50 And let me just tell you why I built Parrot, why I think it's better than other alternatives and how I use it. So Parrot is awesome. It's one of the first apps that I built. I use it literally every single day. If you've ever seen me, you know, do screen recordings, you know, on Wednesday shows a lot of times, you'll see a little green dot at the bottom sometimes. That's parent that's open.

Starting point is 00:24:13 I usually try to like turn it off before I start in case I accidentally hit my dictation key, but a lot of times you'll see it on there. So if you've used something like Whisper Flow or Super Whisper, there's all these, you know, platforms that you know, they're good. But the cloud-based ones for me are just too slow, right? Even Whisper Flow, I'd say is the leader up there. It's too slow. It's not always accurate.

Starting point is 00:24:37 And there's just features that just don't fit my workflow. And there's features that I want that aren't there. So I essentially built my own version that I think is much better. I built this with both Claude and with Codex. And it's essentially it runs locally. So there's nothing in the cloud. It's stored locally on my computer. And that makes it much faster.

Starting point is 00:24:59 I encourage everyone if you want a fun little project to build and you're feeling somewhat ambitious. You know, build a local dictation LLM. So yeah, you don't need internet. you know, just tell chat you be exactly, you know, codex or cloud code exactly what you're trying to do. In this case, it, you know, finds the best text to speech or sorry, speech to text dictation model, you know, downloads it. But yeah, like for me, why I use this, well, number one, it's faster. There's no lag. So I do like whisper flow, but there's a lag.

Starting point is 00:25:33 And then I thought like, why should I have to send all this to the cloud if I don't need to? Also, Codex has great transcription, and you can actually, people don't know this, you can use it anywhere, not just in Codex, but then the same thing. It's like whisper flow, you know, there's still a little bit of a lag. So when I'm, I obviously talk a lot and I dictate a lot. I don't want to wait a half second or a second for longer dictations. I need to go immediately. But then I have all these other things that I built into it. So as an example, I can type in any YouTube channel. And it's going to every single time that there's a new video. So, you know, I can have the open AI, Anthropic, right, anything, any big company, you know, any other, you know, AI YouTubers out there, you know, I don't have time to watch anything. But if I want

Starting point is 00:26:27 to know what people are talking about, it is literally every single video that comes out, it's going to automatically transcribe as long as I have the program open. And then I have a scheduled skill inside codex that goes and it looks at all those transcriptions every single day and it just gives me a little brief here's what everyone on youtube is talking about right i used to like three years ago especially when i was getting started i probably spent like 30 to 45 minutes every day on youtube uh you know obviously watching at like 2.5x i don't have time to do that anymore um you know it's distracting i just don't have the time so i'd much rather just get you know a sites report here's what everyone's talking about. Here's the bullet points, right? It's perfect. So that's a parent. It's probably

Starting point is 00:27:10 my most used app that I built myself. All right. Next, I have my daily episode planning deep research. All right. So this is one of the few things, if I'm being honest, that I still use Gemini for. But let me tell you a little bit on how this works. So again, this is running from Kodax because it's the only one that can handle this. But a lot of times I save Twitter posts. on my phone so i bookmark them right so if i'm walking from here to there uh you know um whatever at night in the morning you know quick save things um so i save a lot of posts on twitter another signal right so it's all these signals that i'm looking at right like what are people talking about what's breaking what's trending similarly the same thing on beehive so that is

Starting point is 00:27:58 our email newsletter uh so again i know like on our a i news section if i put something in you know thought three, it should get this many clicks. If it gets above or below, I know that story either people don't care about or they care about it a lot. And then, so I essentially take those signals every single day. Codex goes in. It opens a new browser instance. It goes to chatypte.com.

Starting point is 00:28:25 It goes to claw. It goes to claw. That AI. It takes all that information, right? Not just to say posts, right? But, you know, replies. I have it kind of do a sentiment analysis. on anything that I save.

Starting point is 00:28:37 And then I have it take all of that information. Codex is the kind of the agent orchestrator. Not me. Isn't that weird? I thought it'd be humans, the ones that were orchestrating agents. But for me, it's actually codex. That's orchestrating agents more than I do.

Starting point is 00:28:50 So it takes all of that information. It sends it to both chat, GBT, deep research, claw deep research, and Gemini deep research, you know, to help me plan episodes. So essentially I say, you know, go find me, you know, five episodes, you know, go find all the information. You know, you choose whatever I bookmarked, whatever is, you know, well above the normal click through rate inside Beehive. Go go do that in, you know, Chachivety, Claw, Gemini, take all that information. And then I have another skill that

Starting point is 00:29:22 helps me start bullet pointing and planning out different shows. All right. So now let's go to number six. This is kind of front end design for vibe coded apps. So I don't. don't build as much as I'd like to, right? If I didn't have a daily podcast, I might build a little bit more, right? But I still, like I said, I have parrot. I have another one I built called Planadoro. I have what I have open on my computer here, Codex reset watcher. I have a lot of like just codex tools that I've built that helped me use codex a little

Starting point is 00:29:55 better, right? But I have all these things. But I don't want them to be ugly. So this is something, if you spend a little bit of time on the front end, right, for even if it's a throwaway app, right? I build intentional throwaway apps. You know, like I said, if I have a little project, I'll build a little can ban, you know, or I'll build a little app for a project that I'm working on. So in those cases, it's like, well, it needs to look good because I'm not going to build something and have it be ugly. So in that case, kind of three tools. This is just

Starting point is 00:30:23 kind of like a three and one here because I use them sometimes interchangeably, sometimes together. So that's Claude Design. Love Claude Design. It is, I think, probably their most unique product. So I love using claw design, Google Stitch, and GPT image. So using a combination of those just to create different front ends, right? So usually I'll have a couple pieces of inspiration, either things I've previously designed or just designs that I really think are good. And I'll put them into, you know, claw design, Google Stitch or GPD image. I'll dictate what I'm trying to do, what I'm trying to build and get different outputs.

Starting point is 00:31:00 So claw design doesn't do visuals, but it does great. right mockups it does great slides etc Google Stitch does great at mockups right it also can use nanobanana so can do images it can do website everything and then gbt image obviously can do that as well the thing I'd like really probably a little bit more Google Stitch than Claude so Claude you can like export things to Claude code it doesn't really work because in most instances it just sends HTML which is not the best I actually like using Google Stitch for that because because you can then export the entire code of what it builds to like Google AI Studio.

Starting point is 00:31:39 And then from there, you can do pretty much anything with it. So this is just when I'm building front ends, whether it's for, you know, making changes, a design system for a new app, whatever it may be. These are the kind of my three ones that I use. All right. Next, this is number seven, Gemini Notebook Study. You all know, I just did a show yesterday. I use what was formerly known as notebook L.M. Now known as Gemini Notebook all the time.

Starting point is 00:32:08 Almost every single day. Sometimes, depending on the day, I might spend multiple hours, right? I like, even if I don't, this sounds bad. I don't always listen or use everything that Gemini Notebook makes me. It just depends on if I have time. But for the most part, I'll have it making me multiple assets every single day. So audio overviews, custom, you know, slide decks, things like that based on, well, anything. A lot of times it's around episode planning.

Starting point is 00:32:39 I do actually put a ton of work into episode planning. Ones like this, not as much, right? Aside from my nice, you know, GPD image codex design slides here. But I'm using Gemini notebook all the time. So kind of like what I talked about earlier, how I do all these deep researches. I have Codex go and take these signals from, you know, Twitter, from our newsletter, run deep research on that kind of sentiment analysis. And then next, I'll have a skill.

Starting point is 00:33:11 So this is kind of like the combination or the continuation of that where Codex pulls all that. And it creates custom notebooks for me. So yeah, custom deep dives, audio deep dives, reports. I mean, infographics, especially. especially if it's like I'm learning a new subject, right? Sometimes I'm learning at the same rate as everyone else, right? Like when something new comes out, it's like, you know,

Starting point is 00:33:36 learning about, you know, loops and subagents and all these other things, right? I'm obviously, uh, um, experiencing them firsthand,

Starting point is 00:33:44 but I'm also trying to learn about them as fast as possible as, you know, from, from people who are, you know, more than I do. So, I love doing this inside Gemini notebook.

Starting point is 00:33:56 Um, it's not just, for me, it's not just a content generation machine. It is really interactive learning because I love, my favorite one is probably the audio overview that you can do the deep dive and then do interactive mode. That's great because you can literally click like the join button and you can ask the two host questions. So that's like really valuable before, you know, a major interview or a project where I just

Starting point is 00:34:19 need a better understanding. A lot of times if I'm doing a quote unquote bigger show, right, I'll first have the deep dive, I guess two hosts do it. And then I'll listen and, you know, kind of drill them like, hey, well, why'd you say this that way? Isn't this a better way to phrase that or frame that? And they might say yes and they might say no. So it's almost like sometimes I go through and I rehearse some shows.

Starting point is 00:34:47 I'd say I probably only do that like twice a month. You know, when it's maybe something more challenging, something a little more new, a big interview, something like that. then I'll go through and do it that way. But yeah, that is my number eight. Number nine or sorry, that was my number seven. So number eight is Codex skill building. My gosh, I'm big on skills.

Starting point is 00:35:07 I think, you know, probably a year ago or, you know, even like December-ish, everyone was talking about lines of code, right? Or tokens, you know, as being like a heavy AI user. I don't think that's a good metric, right? I think the number of times that you use. use a skill really shows if you're being an AI native person or not. So as an example, right, I have 124 skills that I've used. And I've used those skills, a total of, I got these stat.

Starting point is 00:35:41 This is just from within codex from just one of my accounts. And I've used those skills 6,179 times. So I use skills obviously a lot, many times a day. You're right. And I break up these skills into multiple. multiple pieces and then create a plugin. All right. So if you don't know what a skill is, it's just something that you repeatedly do over and over.

Starting point is 00:36:02 And I want you to think of my codex use cases, right? Because I think a lot of people think of skills and they think of either just writing content a certain way or they think of coding something or they think of a design system that is in a skill, which is fine. Right. The way I think of it, these skills, is taking a long, multi-system, multi-app, multi-website task in breaking it down, in turning each of those steps into a skill. And then in Codex,

Starting point is 00:36:35 you can combine multiple of those skills and create a plug-it, right? That's what I do for a lot of things that I run and then I schedule those things. All right. So let's say you go to, you know, heck, I'll give you one of mine, right? So you can go to Streamyard. That's what we use for our live streaming.

Starting point is 00:36:53 So you can go to Streamyard. download, right, download this and then upload it into cast magic, right? So we do cast magic for transcriptions, right? That can be one skill, right? And then taking that and, you know, we take some of those pieces from cast magic, you know, like bullet points of the show highlights, transcriptions, right? Then I can take that copy and paste it into the back end of our website. That's another skill, right?

Starting point is 00:37:16 So all these things that you do in succession, break them down in a little pieces and save them as a skill. You can either do it after you do something, right? That's a huge, like essentially, whenever I do something quote unquote by hand, that's not a skill. I ask myself, am I going to do this again? And chances are there's a decent chance that I might. So I create skills fairly, fairly frequently, right? I've used 124 of them. I probably have a lot more that I don't use, but I've saved just in case. You know, I actually have a skill. that runs every single day that creates new skills. So I have a skill that goes through.

Starting point is 00:37:56 It looks at all of my threads on codex. Again, something that Claude can do, looks at every single thread on codex. And it's supposed to pull out and say, hey, these are things you're doing repeatedly, or this right here, you should turn into a skill, right? You went back and forth six or seven times. A lot of times, right?

Starting point is 00:38:15 Especially with this new technology, computer use was greatly improved with the new GPD-5-6 sole. Right. But it sometimes makes your old skills faster or, you know, maybe certain thing that worked a little better before works a little differently now. So, you know, it's it's going to, you know, when I'm doing new, new projects or trying to automate something new, a lot of times I have to go through a lot of back and forth. And that's whether it's, you know, clawed cursor, codex, anti-gravity, Gemini doesn't matter. That's just how it goes, right? But after you do that, that is your IP, right? That is your. knowledge and the great thing about large language models now is, well, just repeat it. Right. That's the thing. People always think like, okay, well, I'm just going to do this every day and I'm just going to use these models and okay. And I'm going to go in manually push the buttons. You got to stop being a button pusher. All right. Go and push the buttons once and then just have

Starting point is 00:39:11 whether you're using Glaude Gemini codex, just say, hey, turn this into a skill. Right. And it will. And it'll save the skill. But yeah, you should be doing that as frequently as. possible. All right. And then last but not least, my gosh, ChadGBTGPT voice is insanely good. It is so, so good. This is just another reason why I am confident. Like, no one's going to be touching Codex anytime soon. It is so far, so far ahead. And if you haven't used chat Chabit boys, y'all. Go and look online. All the people that are, you know, normally even Claude fans and, you know, bash, Open AI, chat, TBD, whatever, they will, like, go, go find those people. You know those people. Everyone's just starting to talk about this like this week, right?

Starting point is 00:40:10 It is that good. It is, I did a show. I said this is the next frontier of agentic work. So if you don't know what it is, right? I wish it was a little easier to get to in the app. So if you have the chat GPD app, essentially you connect it once to the, you know, either codex or, you know, chat GPD work desktop app. From there on your chat GBT mobile app, you open chat GPD on the side panel, you click remote. Then there's a little button at the bottom, a little blue button. That's chat GPD live.

Starting point is 00:40:44 So let me tell you what this is because you might say like, oh, doesn't quad have dispatch? Yeah. Dispatch is terrible. It doesn't know any of your other threads. It only can work on one thread and it can't really do anything, right? Aside from you can kind of chat back and forth. Chat Chitvety voice in remote. Literally, you can control your entire computer.

Starting point is 00:41:06 Anything, right? So I can be on my phone and I just did this this morning, right? I've been taking more walks recently since Chad GBTBT voice came out. It's amazing. Thank you, OpenAI. I'm actually getting steps now, right? Some days I'm like looking at my watch and I'm like, Oh, I got like 800 steps today.

Starting point is 00:41:22 Right? Now it's like I got 13,000 today. Right? Because I get work done walking. Right. And hey, in Chicago, we don't, we can't walk here out. So it's good now that I can go on and actually, you know, get some, get some vitamin D. And instead of sitting under the fluorescent lights all day. But essentially, anything that you can do yourself on your computer, you can do it in chat,

Starting point is 00:41:46 GBT voice. So I can literally say, you know, hey, chat, GBT voice. look at my downloads folder. There's a new PowerPoint. Can you open that PowerPoint up? And then I have a new image inside Canva. Can you go download that and swap it out? Actually, tell me what's on page three.

Starting point is 00:42:05 What's that image, right? And it's going to tell you, it's going to literally it's, it's, it's, what's the word? Why do I keep forgetting duplex, right? Full duplex. Right. So what that means is you can talk to it. You can interrupt it. It can interrupt you.

Starting point is 00:42:20 we can talk in here at the same time. But as it's talking to you, it has another model that works in the background. So I mean, literally, I'm just just dictating, giving all these long, hard assignments, right? Hey, go into go use this skill, right? Go, go download this from this website. I'm logged in, you know, upload it here, change this. Tell me what's on this page, right? I'm literally like, like I'm on vacation and I have an intern sitting in front of my computer.

Starting point is 00:42:50 That's literally what I'm doing, right? And that is what you can do. It is amazing. And the great thing is it's different, which I know is confusing. It's a little different than the GPT live mode in the chat GPT app. This is the most confusing thing. Because if you use that kind of voice mode inside normal chat GPT, it can't access your connectors.

Starting point is 00:43:11 It can't access your MCPs, right? That's the big difference. If you use chat GPT voice mode via remote in the chat chadipity app it can't you can't you can say hey what are my most important emails okay reply say this send uh right like hey go you know whatever you open my my my hub spot uh you know what leads have moved okay right okay go update this and then slack you know my teammates send them this and it just does it all you can literally do all your work in chadjcadipd voice as i'm starting to do all right so that's a wrap

Starting point is 00:43:49 That's my nine. I just gave you an inside look. Yeah, I gave you a couple of hot takes there, but that's just the truth, right? Might this all change in a couple of weeks? It could, right? But honestly, I think, at least for me, I don't see my workflow changing anytime soon. And I think if you've been stuck on the fence, just take what I learn and run it through your own workflows, right?

Starting point is 00:44:14 Run everything side by side through, you know, Claude Code and Codex and Curse. and cursor or, you know, through, you know, ChadGGPT.com, Claude.A.I and Gemini.com, right? Do it for yourself. But I want you to take maybe my workflows, these nine that I shared with you as a starting point. Some are more habits, right, like turning things into skills. But some of them, I think you should just be trying, right? Like, you know, try using the combination of Claude Design,

Starting point is 00:44:42 you know, Google Stitch and GPT image. If you are trying to vibe code something, If you're trying to build a little app for yourself, your team, your company, right? Start there versus, you know, building it all and then saying like, hey, this is ugly. Let's change some things. You're going to save yourself so much time. So I hope this one is helpful. If you like this type of show, let me know.

Starting point is 00:45:02 Maybe I'll do another one or two. But that is it inside Everyday AI in my nine most used AI tools and workflows. If this is helpful, please subscribe to the podcast, then go to Your EverydayAI.com. Sign up for the free daily news. Thanks for tuning in. See you back tomorrow and every day for more Everyday AI. Thanks y'all. And that's a wrap for today's edition of Everyday AI. Thanks for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a rating. It helps keep us going. For a little more AI magic, visit Your EverydayAI.com and sign up to our daily newsletter so you don't get left behind.

Starting point is 00:45:40 Go break some barriers and we'll see you next time.

Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast - Ep 835: Inside Everyday AI: My 9 most Used AI Tools and Workflows

There aren't comments yet for this episode. Click on any sentence in the transcript to leave a comment.