Tip of the Day

AI is super helpful but it cannot be fully trusted. In some cases that may be okay. For example medical advice that recommends you eat more bananas. In cases where the results are important, it's always a good idea to check and verify the results. Sometimes that effort is trivial, like looking at an image that was generated. And sometimes those results need to be cross-referenced and researched and validated and verified with more thorough efforts. AI isn't better. It's just faster. But it can sometimes do in minutes what would have taken weeks. Verifying and validating may just take a short time.

If you have a question or concern about a contract such as a rental or automotive lease or some usage agreement. Just upload the document to a chat or chat project, ask it any questions that you have. The chat should not replace legal counsel, but most people weren't going to seek legal counsel in the first place. And there may be cases where, after doing this, you determine that it would be a good idea to seek legal counsel, whereas you may not have otherwise. And if you do, having done pre-research ahead of time in providing that documentation to the lawyer will only help your case.

You can create a Recipe Manager project in ChatGPT or Claude. Just tell it that you want to be able to upload recipes in random formats, which could be photos, text, or web pages, and you want it to generate a format into a consistent PDF where they all look the same. Then you just go through your existing recipes, take photos with your camera, and upload them to create a new cookbook where every recipe looks the same.

If there is an image or web page that has data you want to print (like a schedule within a graphic) you tell a chat (Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini) what data you want, how to format it and to put it into a CSV or PDF for you to download or print.