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• AI prompts for emails and messages: reply, shorten, sound like you

  Four prompts for everyday writing: a reply you can send in a minute, a shorter version that keeps the point, a draft that sounds like you, and a voice note turned into text.

• How to check an AI answer before you trust it

  AI answers sound sure even when they're guessing. Three prompts to check one in two minutes, find what you missed, and spot the slant in anything it summarises.

• Fun things to do with AI: fix a photo, a bedtime story, names

  Three things to try with an AI app that aren't work: fix a photo by asking, make a bedtime story with your child in it, and come up with a name for your club, stall or dog.

• How to get better answers from ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini

  Five habits that fix most bad AI answers: tell it who you are, give it the real thing, let it ask questions, ask for three options, and start fresh when a chat gets long.

• Plan a trip, a week of meals and the packing list with AI

  Prompts that plan around your real life: a trip that fits your budget and pace, a week of meals from what you have, a packing list that remembers the charger, and live translation.

• Use AI to make a decision, rehearse a hard talk or revise

  Three prompts that use AI as a thinking partner, not an oracle: weigh two options without going round in circles, rehearse a hard conversation, and turn notes into a quiz.

• CLAUDE.md: the note your coding agent reads first

  Claude Code reads one file before every task. Most people leave it empty or fill it with junk. What goes in, what stays out, and a prompt that writes it.

• Basic server security for non-developers

  You rented a server and put an agent on it. Now robots are probing it. Four things, in order, that handle most of the risk, and a prompt to do them.

• Check a contract for the bits that bite

  Tenancy, phone, gym, freelance job. Paste it and get the clauses that cost you money or lock you in, in plain English, before you sign. Not legal advice.

• Give your agent a memory that survives tomorrow

  Why does an agent forget everything? Memory is a file of short notes it reads before every job and writes after. The smallest version that works.

• Let it interview you, then write your CV

  Writing about yourself is the worst writing there is. Talk about your job for ten minutes instead and get a CV that sounds like you.

• Prepare for a doctor's appointment in ten minutes

  You get ten minutes with the doctor and forget half of it. Use AI beforehand to turn your worries into four clear questions and a short summary.

• Spreadsheets: ask the question instead of writing the formula

  You know what the column should say, not the formula. Describe it in plain words, paste the headers, and get the formula back with a line explaining it.

• Three automations that actually save time

  Not the impressive ones. Three boring, scheduled jobs that quietly changed how my week runs, what each one does, and the prompt to set it up.

• Upload a PDF and ask it questions

  Upload a PDF to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and ask what you want to know, with page numbers so you can check, plus the rule that stops it guessing.

• Write to a company that owes you (and get a reply)

  A refund, a repair, a deposit, a cancelled flight. One prompt writes a short, firm, polite letter with your reference numbers and a deadline.