hey friends welcome back to the channel AI tools have been absolutely exploding onto the market recently and there's literally hundreds of them that people on Twitter are talking about all the time and loads of people are saying that these AI tools are going to change the world of work and change the way that we approach work and productivity and life now I've been experimenting with a bunch of these tools as they've been coming out and so in this video we're going to go over the six tools that I use every day to augment my productivity
this video is kindly sponsored by notion but more on them later let's go on to the first tool okay so the first tool we're going to talk about is chat GPT itself now chat gbt is the original AI powered chat bot that's created by open Ai and open AI has really been the leading force in this space over the last few months because they've released gpt3 and GPT 3.5 otherwise known as Chad GPT and gpt4 very recently so how does it work well essentially you go on chat.openai.com you make an account it is free and
now you have access to this ridiculously powerful AI chat bot that you can ask basically anything to and then depending on whether you're on the free or the paid plan you have options of default or Legacy or even gpt4 and so you can ask this to do almost anything so let's have a look write a funny poem about Alia doll Alia a YouTuber so tall and spry with his love for books and tea he's a nerd there's no deny so if you're feeling down and blue and just need a dose of laughter just watch some
olive doll videos and your day will be much better interesting it's not bad that it's been able to come up with that kind of stuff you can also ask it to do researchy type things and looking at this all of this is pretty much accurate this gives you just a very small glimpse of what chat GPT can do but now I want to talk through what are my own personal actual use cases and the main one that I use chat gbt for is for idea generation and I was working on one of my book chapters
and so I asked Chad GPT I'm looking for interesting scientific case studies that link the idea of play and dopamine and Novelty and productivity please suggest some options and now this is pretty good the connection between play dopamine novelty and productivity has been explored in various scientific case studies here are a few interesting ones that you might find relevant and it's telling me about The Rat Pack experiment about mihai chixet mihai's Flow State and dopamine research about Ken beverages research about Stuart Brown's research and about Jane mcgonagall's research now at this point I was quite
familiar with a bunch of these but I wasn't really familiar with option number three and so I just asked chat GPT expand on number three and now it's telling me more about this study about what happened in rodents when they injected them with dopamine something about rewards and at this point I'm thinking okay that's super interesting I want to find out more I asked what is the DOI of the study now DOI is the digital object identifier and it is a basically a URL that every scientific study has so that I can click on the
URL and then see if it's actually legit and now here's where it gets interesting and this shows one of the limitations even of this new evolved gpt4 platform so it's saying I apologize for the confusion the thing that I said is not actually a specific study but it's a summary of studies but it's given me a reference to an actual study that I can look up and so I've now got the reference to the study the neural basis of drug craving and incentive sensitization theory of addiction and I'm thinking at this point oh this is
not exactly what I was looking for so I do a quick Google search I find the paper I glance through the paper and I realize ah this is not the dream chat GPT did a really good job of essentially telling me that this was super interesting research that was very specifically tied to play productivity dopamine and Novelty which is what I was looking for but the limitation of the language model is that essentially long story short it just predicts the next word based on the previous word and so a lot of the time it will
make leaps of logic or just say things that are straight up not exactly true so I tried taking a different tactic what are some real world stories or case studies that illustrate the link between player productivity dopamine and variety and it's given me a few things like Google's 20 times to see The Finnish education system which I knew about and this ludicorp gamification example which I didn't know about but I know it's not particularly relevant to what I want to say and now I've asked it for five real world examples where adding novelty into otherwise
mundane work tasks lead to increase in productivity and enjoyment but avoid strategies that might be described as gamification and now this is interesting themed work days desk swapping creative brainstorming sessions walking meetings cross-functional projects this is kind of interesting it's given me a few ideas for interesting avenues that I want to explore I'm interested in this walking meetings concept I know Bruce daisley talks about it in one of his books which is called the joy of work and I want to see if there's actually any studies that show that actually taking meetings and calls and
stuff while walking around helps you feel more creative and more productive or does anything to do with dopamine but I know that that's a research area that I'm going to explore myself but one of the major issues with chat GPT is that it often is at capacity now I pay for Chad gbt plus which is 20 a month totally worth it for me because I use it quite a lot for this researchy stuff so hopefully this has given you a bit of an idea of how you might use charge GPT if you're researching stuff as
well along with some of the limitations of trying to use an AI tool exclusively for your research and so now let's move on tool number two and Tool number two is notion AI now you guys probably know about notion I've been talking about it for absolutely years I think since like 2019 and so many people that I meet on the streets tell me that they started using notion because of watching various of my videos and so we've got so much of our company documentation and materials and stuff all the notion and I've actually been using
it for the last four years now as the prime hub for my YouTube videos but the interesting thing that they've released recently is notion Ai and because we've been using it for so long we've got a pretty good relationship with the guys at notion and so we dropped them an email being like Hey we're gonna make a video about these AI tools mentioning notion AI would you like to sponsor the video and they very kindly said yes and so this video is officially sponsored by notion and so you can harness the power of AI within
your notion Pages itself so let's start with something basic this is a video that I want to make at some point seven techniques for staying organized and productive we're going to see what does the AI offer us the option of doing so essentially within the notion workspace you just hit the space bar and now you can access the AI features brainstorm ideas blog posts outline social media post press release creative story essay loads of other options and so I can just give it a prompt it does here we go it's not bad introduction create a
to-do list prioritize tasks use a calendar planner minimize distractions take breaks delegate tasks they're organized recap etc etc but I don't like the fact that this is a bit basic I want it to be a bit more evidence-based because that's my jam redo but cite evidence for each of the main points in the video okay here we go this is getting better create a to-do list where they've got studies conducted by Harvard Business Review Dominican University calendar planner take breaks okay this is all very good but the other limitation as we've already talked about is
that sometimes it does make things up redo but please include a DOI URLs when you're citing studies let's see what happens okay so this is pretty good this is not bad within about two minutes of work we've gotten we've gotten seven different tips with a bunch of DOI studies Now The crucial thing is let's see if these are actually legit a study by the University of Illinois found that brief breaks can improve focus on productivity Okay cool so I'm just going to Google this boom let's see what happens nothing absolutely nothing and it seems like
none of these are actually legit because I've tried Googling all these doas and I've seen what these studies even are and so again pointing to the limitations of AI it's pretty magical it's pretty great that it's been able to create this outline for me but now I have to go on the internet and do the research myself now there's another thing and then letting the AI augment the human touch hopefully leads to better results than just asking the AI to do its thing I wanted some more details so I said for each bullet point add
more detail based on my highlights and now it's adding a little bit more detail which is kind of nice it also does a pretty reasonable job of making an AI summary of the book it calls it a document this document discusses the concept of the pathless path again kind of basic I already know what the book is about but if I was for example writing an article for my website and I couldn't be bothered to summarize the contents of my highlights I could just ask the AI to do it and then obviously do some manual
in-person editing to make sure it's actually legit the other thing I've done is use the highlights below to create a list of action points and this is interesting because it's basically summarized my highlights into these bullet points which could be interesting as a tweet thread but also crucially for me like I'm not just going to copy and paste this into a two thread because it's a bit basic and I don't want to do that instead I'm going to look at these action points and think oh what are the interesting ones here that I want to
expand on and so I now zoom out and I think okay cool I've got some ideas based on the outlining that notion AI has done and the summarizing of my highlights let me now actually think from my own brain what do I want this video to be about and the first thing I want to talk about in this video is this idea of the pathless path versus the default off and so I've asked it use the highlights on this page to write some bullet points describing the key differences between the pathless path and the default
path it is very kindly obliged and then and this is a really powerful thing that notion does that chai GPT does not make the above into a table comparing the differences between the default path and the pathless path and this is actually really solid it's given me a table in terms of definition fulfillment openness to new possibilities metrics of success for default path for passers path and this is saying this is actually something I might include in my video and it saves me having to do the faff of you know the fairly boring work of
just like copying and pasting highlights and just writing it out into the format of a table the AI is really good at doing that grunt work and doing it for me and I'm using that to create an outline just to give my own brain some other ideas and then in reality what I would do is I create these like little spider diagramming type things for the videos that I do whether I do or don't use AI to help outline it if this notion AI stuff sounds interesting and you want to check it out then do
please click the link in the video description because if you click that link then notion will know that you came to notion AI through my link and then they might also want to sponsor future videos which would be very nice so check it out add it to your workspace and see if you like it alright tool number three that I use to boost my product is a tool called speechify which is an AI text to speech enabled software it was initially built for people with dyslexia who find it difficult to read but actually loads of
people who don't have dyslexia also have found it super helpful as a way of boosting their productivity when it comes to reading stuff I've actually got an interview with Cliff Weitzman who's the founder of speechify over on my podcast Deep dive you can check that out if you like but speechify is really good and what's interesting about it is it can essentially read stuff to me I can read pretty fast myself but I find that sometimes as my attention begins to wander I turn on the speechify read feature and it just makes it a little
bit more fun a little bit more interesting and I've got like loads and loads and loads of papers here loads of PDFs that I need to read or that I've read and it just you know it becomes a bit of a drag sometimes and so for example here's a paper back to the future of the effect of daily practice of mental time travel into the future on happiness and anxiety all I have to do is highlight the text I hit option Q the ability to project oneself into the Future Has previously been found to be
related to happiness and anxiety the purpose of the present study was to investigate the causal effect of deliberate mental time traveling so this is kind of fun I've got this in my taskbar it's the voice of Mr President all you have to do is text and then the AI thingy voice thingy will you know put in the voice of whoever you want and will read the thing to you and then of course you can speed it up and slow it down and in fact I'm going to change the voice and there's loads of different voices
to choose from I quite like Nate do I like Nate I do like Nate yeah research on MTT into the future and well-being must address the issue of what their positive information I know people don't like it speed listen to stuff but it's super super helpful for me so if I'm absorbing like a huge ass PDF that I don't I'm not massively interested in and I'm trying to find the perfect like bit of it I can whack this up to like 900 words per minute and just sort of like Blitz like the content and then
for the bit that's particularly interesting I can actually then read it properly and highlight it and take notes and do the thing if you're interested in checking out speechify there's a link down below with some sort of discount associated with it so you can check that out see if you like it if you want all right tool number four that I use to boost my productivity is a writing tool called Lex now I've actually been using this since 19th of October 2022 so it's been about six months now but one of the reasons I still
enjoy using Lex is that it's basically Google Docs with AI built in in a distraction free writing environment so for example here is something I wrote the other day around YouTube changed my life the cool thing about Lex is that its main feature which I find useful is autocomplete to help avoid writer's block so for example these days when I wake up in the morning I'm genuinely excited to get started with work it's a few ways to call it that blah blah and I'm thinking okay I want to write more stuff so I've written so
what's the takeaway here why am I sharing this at all well three main things and now I'm going to use autocomplete and hopefully going to say firstly it's totally possible to transition out of a traditional job field into something else it's daunting short and work quite a lot of hard work but it can be done secondly don't be afraid to Pivot I thought I wanted to specialize in emergency medicine and work in a hospital but then I followed the things that were actually making me happy and it turns out that the hospital wasn't necessarily the
best option lastly follow the things that make you happy and don't stay in a job that doesn't make you happy just because it's what you're supposed to do yeah a bit passe towards the end a bit basic but the cool thing about this is that it has taken my writing style into account this is all the stuff that I've already written myself so it knows what my writing style is and now it's writing in that style it's not it's somewhat conversational it's not too formal um let's try and see if there's anything else for this
one I still miss the hospital environment the dynamic between patients and doctors in the old and the old funny sad scary story but I found more fulfillment more satisfaction more autonomy in the world of YouTube YouTube analytics and professional developments here in my purely a quite honestly can't imagine going back to the hospital it's it's not bad this is actually pretty good when I'm writing something and just like I'm thinking oh I don't know what to say next I hit command enter the AI fills it out usually I end up deleting what the AI is
written and just writing it myself because I've got an idea but the key point is that the AI has helped me overcome the writers block and it's given me some ideas for the thing that I actually want to say but to be honest full disclosure notion AI was not a thing when I first started using this and you can probably do the stuff in notion AI as well alright now we come to Tool number six and that is grain grain is a recording device for Zoom calls we have been using it for absolutely years how
long has it been since I've been using rain this is like basically all the zoom calls that I've had since June 2020. damn this is the first live session for my part-time YouTuber Academy essentially what grain does is that it if you're recording a zoom call it automatically Imports into grain and then it will create an AI transcription of the zoom call if you want but also these days it will generate an AI summary of the zoom call and so what you can do is you've got your Zoom call recording you've got the AI generated
transcript you've got a summary which is super helpful these days that's a fairly new feature thanks to all the AI tools that are proliferating on the market these days you can label the people so this is a call between me and Inez and Rachel and you can select bits and you can turn them into a highlight so I can create a highlight out of that thing I can look highlight section and then I can share a link to this highlight and this is nice so actual use cases right now it's particularly helpful for recording meetings
because then we can share those meeting recordings and the summaries and the highlights with people who weren't at the meeting but the main reason I actually started using grain three years ago when I started working on my book project was because I wanted to document the entire journey of writing the book from start to finish and so the very first Zoom calls with my editor where we're talking about the concepts Zoom calls that I had with people like James Claire and other author friends on the internet have all been recorded on grain it's all there
and at some point I'm going to go through all the content use the transcripts user summaries use the Highlight stuff because I've been making highlights as I go along to turn it into a bit of a personal documentary on how the book Journey's gone right tool number six is a tool called Auto dot AI which is also an AI transcription tool but it works a bit different to grain it does have the option to record Zoom calls these days but that's not what we use it for because initially you just had to upload an MP3
and it would transcribe everything for you and this is super super helpful for generating transcripts of our podcasts so this massively boosted our team's productivity so we just upload the MP3 file of the podcast on were done and then Amber a podcast producer can go through the transcripts and can essentially pick out interesting clips that we want to do for social media they've also got an AI generated summary which is super helpful for putting timestamps into episodes of our Deep dive podcast and the other cool thing about Otto is that I can actually use it
to record on the go and then with a single tap it's now recording from my microphone and it's going to transcribe in real time the things that I'm saying and that is absolutely sick so this is how I take notes from audiobooks I'm just listening to the audiobook of two weeks notice by Amy portofield is really good so far she just talks about this concept of the journaling prompt and this spark some thoughts blah blah blah blah blah I'll kind of say all these things and I'll trust that the audio has been recorded and it's
available for me and my team to access on the web and also it's been transcribed and that means if I then want to make a video about the book two weeks notice by Amy Porterfield which is the one that I did this for most recently and I can be like oh yeah these are all the thoughts I had while I was listening to this book and therefore all of these thoughts can be compiled into some kind of format to go in the video pretty cool stuff would recommend alright so that was a bit of a
walkthrough in how I'm personally using these six specific AI themed tools to boostmap productivity hopefully you got something in there that was actually helpful if you're interested in more tips on being productive check out this video over here which is about seven habits that I do every day that save me around three hours a day thank you so much for watching and I'll see you hopefully in the next video bye
