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Creators of All Trades #124: Finally, Voice Input That Works (+ Why direction trumps execution)

Prompt Library | Direction Becomes Essential | AI That Challenges You | Next Level Voice Input | Breaking things down for you | AI-Powered Photo Enhancement | Can a Productivity Tracker Change Your Work Habits?

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Prompt Library
Directory

Beyond the average prompt cheat sheet. Team-GPT’s library organizes prompts by industry – marketing, consulting, education, product, IT, and more. You can find specific prompts for everyday tasks, saving time and improving your AI workflows.

Direction Becomes Essential
Blog, 10 min

“As AI makes execution trivial, direction becomes essential—the future belongs not to those who can create, but to those who know what’s worth creating.” The Ghibli portrait phenomenon showed how AI makes creation accessible to everyone while forcing us to reconsider what makes human creativity valuable when anyone can generate infinite variations with a simple prompt. 

Hack your workflow

 AI That Challenges You

ChatGPT and other AI Chat Assistants confirm and affirm your ideas and thoughts, cheering you on. All popular AI assistants have a feature called custom instructions (or something similar). Use it to tell the assistant to be skeptical. It can help you avoid confirmation bias and challenge you to think more deeply.

How? In ChatGPT, click your user name > Settings > Customize > Click +Skeptical

This simple change can transform your AI interactions from echo chambers to improving your ideas.

Regularly update your custom instructions. Your focus changes, and you might work across several projects at once, so keep different versions on file.

Custom Instructions in ChatGPT

Tools & Apps

Next Level Voice Input
Productivity

Wispr Flow is an app that perfectly embeds in your workflow. It allows you to dictate text in natural language in any app you want by simply pressing the function key on your keyboard. And it works well!

What makes Wispr Flow stand out:

  • Works in every application 
  • Talk in any language
  • Adapts its tone based on the app you’re using
  • Understands context and gets names right
  • Works even when you whisper (should work also in open office settings)

Setup takes a few minutes, but you won’t want to miss it once you adapt. The app is available for both Mac and Windows. (1min Demo)

Breaking things down for you
Productivity

Speed up typing down tasks, organizing them in sub-tasks, and have them automatically estimated. But that’s just one of many single-purpose tools this site offers. This is a little helper you can bookmark called Goblin Tools.  (Example)

AI-Powered Photo Enhancement
Design

This free photo upscaler enhances photos directly in your browser with no downloads required—perfect for rescuing low-resolution images.

Fresh Reflections

Can a Productivity Tracker Change Your Work Habits?

I am a power user of productivity tracker Rize. I carefully track where time goes to increase my time in focus mode compared to mindlessly scrolling social media feeds. Check out my full review on the Fresh van Root blog for a detailed look at how it works in practice.

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