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Chat PT has so many hidden tricks that
almost nobody uses. So, in this video,
I'll put together a list of my top 12
all-time favorites. Some of them are
actually brand new, so you could get a
The first one is you could actually get
Chat GPT to remember your writing style,
but for every single and different use
case. So, instead of giving it a custom
instruction in the account setting to do
that, I'm going to show you this other
trick here. So, here's how I'm going to
use it. First, I'm going to ask Chat GPT
to analyze a piece of writing. This is
going to be email first. And I'm just
going to say analyze this for tone,
style, format, and reading level. Now,
I'm going to paste an email that I wrote
myself. Now, Chat PT understands how I
like to write emails based on a
different tone, style, format, and my
reading level, and anything else you
wanted to analyze it for. Here's the key
part. Now remember my writing style for
emails to my team specifically and store
this to memory. So anytime I ask you to
write an email to my team, use this
information. Now this is only the way I
write emails to my team. This is the
tone I use for that. When I write to
clients, it's going to be a different
tone. So now you could see it's updated
its memory with that set of instruction.
And now if I ask it to write an email to
my team, it uses that memory to write
this email. So I don't have to have
prompts back and forth. And the key with
this is now I could do it the same for
when I write a blog post or when I write
a YouTube title and when I write emails
to clients or anyone else and have
separate memories for that. So it will
pull in that information every single
time I ask it to write something new and
knows my tone, my writing style, the
reading level for just about anything
that I'm going to write with without
setting up any custom instructions. Next
on our list, Chatt could also send you
daily or weekly reminders. Each morning
at 8 a.m., send me a report that has
three new updates in AI. Focus on
updates from major companies first.
OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Now, this
creates a task for itself. So, every
morning, it will send you a reminder and
you could turn on desktop notifications.
So, it'll just notify you right on your
desktop. Now, these could be paused,
deleted, edited, and they have a whole
page for scheduling things. So any type
of reminder requiring web access or not
web access, it could do that for you
right inside of chat GPT. The next one I
wanted to show you is inside of chat GPT
projects, which have become probably my
favorite ways to use chat GPT. So with
projects, you could basically organize
things into contained categories. So I
have one where all my script writing
takes place or any type of AI prompts I
have I have stored here. So what you
could do is when you create a new
project, it has a hidden setting right
here. You could click this gear icon
here and it lets you create something
called project only memory. So these
projects can only have access to their
own memory. So any chat you have, any
custom instructions you have inside of
this project, that's all the project is
able to see. So that keeps things very
contained. I do this all the time when I
just want the project to look into my
files that I've uploaded as its
knowledge base. Instead, if you have it
on default, this will access your
memories from outside of chat. So, it
will just know everything about you that
is based on your accountwide
information. And that option cannot be
changed after you create a project. But
inside of every project, you could also
add your set of custom instructions
here. You could also add any type of
knowledge base to this project too. So
in this case it makes sense to add your
files here. Make it self-contained. So
this becomes a central knowledge base
and doesn't pull anything from your
previous conversations outside of this
project. Now the next one is a recent
upgrade which is a big upgrade to chat
GPT personalization. So let me go to my
settings here. And you have this
personalization tab. And I already have
my custom instructions that I've used
for a long time. But a lot of people
actually have not set up any custom
instruction. So to make it easier,
they've included a bigger list of things
you could choose from. So these like
professional, friendly, candid, these
will change the tone and how chat GPT
responds to you at the account level,
which makes it really, really useful.
Now, I recommend you combine this with
what I showed you earlier where you give
it your writing style and your tone for
different use cases and save that to
memory. You combine that with these
custom instructions or any of these
default option. I think they only had
like two or three before. Now they have
a lot more. And once you save these, you
don't have to prompt it every time to
talk in a friendly tone, right? It knows
how to do that. And it combines that
with your custom instructions as well as
the about you section. So you could tell
it different things about you as well
here. So if you haven't set up
personalization, I definitely recommend
it. At the very least, pick one of
these. But if you really want to get
this dialed in, set up a custom
instruction and fill out the about you
section, too. Now, the next one is chat
GPT temporary chats. And it's an icon
right up here. So, if you turn this on,
memory gets disabled for this chat. And
it also doesn't appear in search
history. Now, I hardly used this before
because I didn't really mind if it was
in chat history. But the memory part is
actually a big deal because if you're
having a conversation or if you're
running a scenario that actually
shouldn't be remembered or affect your
accounts, well, this makes a lot of
sense to do, the memory is disabled, so
it won't affect your accounts. This next
one is super helpful. It's actually a
company knowledge base that comes with
the business plan. So, here in my
business plan, you'll see this tab right
here. So if you click on it, it will
pull in things from your company
knowledge base which is really really
useful. So for example, I gave it access
to our Dropbox. We also gave it access
to our Google calendar. So it knows our
schedule here. Our team's plan has
multiple people on it. So we could all
share that information here in a central
location. And you could also give it
access to your Gmail, your box, and they
have ton of different connectors. I
mean, it's kind of a big list of
connectors that you could give it access
to. We're actually going to add Slack
next year. So, it could pull in from
Slack conversation. That's what we use
here in our team. Any of these options,
Box, GitHub, HubSpot, all those are
available, too. And then every time you
have a conversation, it will go and look
into your company knowledge base in
addition to everything else. So, it can
combine web search with your internal
knowledge base here. So, if you do have
a business plan, this is hugely helpful.
And since we're talking about using Chat
GPT's company knowledge base, if you
want to put that into practice at work
and also get a lot more practical use
cases, check out this free resource from
HubSpot called Chat GPT at work. This is
one of the most practical chat GPT
walkthroughs that I've seen online. It
includes just about everything to get
the most out of Chat GPT at work across
every role. It covers writing and
editing, research, customer support,
data tasks, and even how to automate
some of your daily workflows. My
favorite section is actually 100 ways to
try Chat GPT today. It's literally a
list of 100 practical prompts you can
use across everything from ideiation to
marketing to sales. Number 69 is
actually perfect for the feature I just
showed you because it helps you get more
out of your knowledge base. It asks chat
GPT to provide recommendations for
improving internal knowledge sharing and
communication along with any specific
challenges you want to include. You can
download this full guide for free using
the link in the description. A big
thanks to HubSpot for making these
resources available and for sponsoring
this video.
Now the next one is also under settings.
It's actually apps and connectors. So
Chat GPT could connect to lot of
different apps right inside of Chat GPT.
Now, these are not the ones like I
showed you where it connects to a
knowledge base. These are actually
totally different. So, it says browse
apps. So, all these apps are available
inside of Chat GPT. So, it's a little
bit like the app store. You have a
phone, you have lots of different apps.
You could open those apps. They do
different things for you. Well, this
browse app section lets you kind of do
the same thing, but inside of chat GPT
and they recently rolled out new ones
from Adobe, but this is a huge list of
different apps here. So, this is how it
works. All you have to do is type in the
atmention sign inside of chat and it'll
pull in pretty much all these apps that
are available and basically get them to
do things for you. So, you could use
Photoshop. All these Adobe products
recently just got rolled into it. And
then it links directly to Adobe
Photoshop on the web for example where
you could do further editing. Here, I'll
use Khan Academy. And let's see if he
knows anything about writing basic
expressions, a math problem that Khan
Academy is really good at. and it's
connected to Khan Academy. And there it
is. We got ourselves a math problem here
that we could try to solve. And you
could also have a follow-up chat here
using Chat GPT. But the ability to pull
in all these different kinds of apps
that do unique things that chat GPT just
does not do makes chat GPT a whole lot
more useful.
Now, the next one on my list is actually
part of these custom GPTs here. So let
me jump into one that I created a while
ago and this is something that a lot of
people don't know. So you can actually
change which AI model these are being
powered by. So I had created a lot of
these with chatgpt 40 but you can now
change those. So if I go to edit this
custom GPT here I could right here
recommend a different model. So when
people use it, they don't use the old
chat GPT models and instead, let's say
they use GPT 5.2 thinking, which right
now is the best model available. I'm
sure if you watch this later, they're
going to have a new one, but usually you
want the latest model to power these.
And then every time I've done this, I've
gone and changed my custom instructions
because some of the older custom
instructions that work well with 40 no
longer work with the five models. And
then when you use it as a user, if you
are sending these to other people or if
you find any of them here, well, you
could also choose a different model here
too. So if they didn't recommend a
model, it just picks one for you, but
you could force it to use a thinking
model when you're using this custom GPT.
By default, a lot of them don't use a
thinking model. So the answer is just
decent. But if you turn on the thinking
model, sometimes the answer out of these
GPTs become a lot better. The next one I
wanted to show you is you could actually
create several different images using
the image model inside of chat GPT. So
you don't have to do that one at a time.
Before you used to have to wait till an
image got created. But now you could
literally send out different images. And
just like that I got all four just back
to back to back. And the new image model
inside of chat GPT is a lot faster. It's
actually four times faster than the last
image model they had. So this becomes a
whole lot more useful now by typing in
multiple prompts and instead of waiting
for one image at a time, you get all of
them here back to back and you could
just download or edit them from here.
Now the next one actually creates little
mini apps for you. So if you press the
plus sign and you turn on the canvas
mode here, canvas mode can do a lot of
different things. I can make an entire
video on how to use canvas mode. But for
this use case, I'm going to ask you to
make me a little to-do list app. And
this will follow pretty detailed prompts
too. So with canvas mode turned on when
you send out a prompt like this, it
actually goes to a whole different mode
and it starts writing code for you,
which again you don't have to read or
worry about because you'll get this
preview option as soon as this content
gets generated. And there it is. It's
created this whole functioning app for
us. Make a video. Let's add that. There
it is. So this is just one example, but
it could actually create really useful
things for you. And you could also share
these here. You could make different
sections for your website and embed them
in your website. I do this all the time.
It's one of my favorite things inside of
Chat GPT. Now, the next one is actually
combining deep research with your own
knowledge base. So, if you press the
plus sign here, you could use deep
research. And if you haven't used this
before, it's one of the best things in
AI. It's a agent that goes and searches
sometimes 100 200 websites to respond to
a single request here and gives you a
really detailed sometimes 20page report
with sources. But by itself it's pretty
good. When it becomes really good is if
you click this and you give it access to
other things. So I could give it access
to everything inside of my Dropbox for
example which again we have ton of
different information there or I could
connect it to other apps. Remember, you
could connect it to all kinds of
different apps here with these different
connectors. So then, not only will it be
able to search the web and work like
deep research has always worked, it will
also be able to pull in and combine
different sources of information you
have internally at your company or at
your work, making it a whole lot more
useful. Okay, this next one is a little
bit newer, but anytime you talk to chat
GPT, especially if you have a paid
version of chat GPT, with the free
version, this does happen in the
background with with the paid version,
it chooses the latest GPT model,
whatever that ends up being, and then it
uses auto, which means it automatically
decides, should I instantly respond or
should I take my time to think about it.
I think at least right now with this
version of chat GPT, it doesn't do that
good of a job. So, what I've done is
I've always changed mine to be on the
thinking model, unless I'm ju just doing
basic web searches. I switch it back.
But here's where it gets really good.
Click this option right here. And you
could change it to extended. What's the
best way to market a local music venue?
Give me only the best option. Typically,
if you just have it to auto, it will
answer you almost instantly because it
has this type of stuff in its knowledge
base. But this one will take time to
figure out exactly what the best answer
is here. And in this case, it
recommended building an email and
messaging list for our market. So, this
one actually answered us pretty quickly.
Sometimes with the extended thinking, it
will take a whole minute. But let me
show you one other thing. I just jumped
into a different account that I paid
$200 a month for. Definitely not for
everyone, but if you have very critical
work here and you want the very best of
the best, you could actually do a couple
of things. You could turn on the
thinking model, but with that plan, you
get this other one called heavy even
longer analysis for hardest questions.
So, this one actually has saved me a
couple of times where my paid plan, my
teams and business plan, those plans did
not quite give me the answer I was
looking for with the extended version.
On top of that, with the business plan
and the pro plan, you also get this pro,
which is research grade GPT model, which
they've had for a while now. And then
you could combine that with extended
thinking, and that literally will give
you the best possible answer in AI right
now. if you combine the pro version with
this one. Now, the business plan, which
is $30 a month, also comes with a little
bit of a pro version here, but the $200
plan gives you a lot more usage out of
the pro version. Again, probably not for
95% of the people, but the 5% of people
that really heavily use Chat GPT can
benefit from combining either the pro
version with extended thinking or the
thinking version with the heavy
thinking, really pushing Chat GPT to its
full capabilities. Now, I got one really
useful bonus one for you that probably
everyone's going to be able to use. So,
a lot of times you're having a
conversation with Chat GPT. Let's say
you're brainstorming an idea. Well, now
you could go left with the idea or you
could go right. Well, which one do you
choose? Well, you don't have to choose.
You could click these three dots in the
conversation and branch that into a new
chat. So, now you take one direction
with this chat and you take a whole
different direction with the other chat.
Now you have two chats that are saved.
And I recommend now you save those to a
project. So that project will know
everything about what's going on in a
big picture. So if you start a third
chat, that project will know that and
all you have to do is press the three
dots for that, move it to a project,
create a new project, move those
conversations there, and that project
will have all the context of everything
about this topic moving forward. So
that's my hidden list right now of chat
GPT tricks that should save you a ton of
time. Hopefully some of those were new
to you. And I'll share one more resource
with you. We have an entire learning
platform called Skillap where I put
together things in a very linear order
inside of courses along with other
instructors. So we have 30 courses and
we have entire learning path that put
things in linear order course by course
as well. We have ton of downloadable
resources, entire prompt libraries and
we add new courses every single month.
You get access to literally the entire
platform and every new feature and every
new course and learning path and the
community for a monthly subscription.
And we have a free 7-day trial right now
to make sure you jump in there. You get
a lot of use out of it. See if it's a
good fit for you and stick around. If
it's not a good fit for you, you cancel
during trial and not get charged. So,
I'll put a link in the description to
that as well. And if you like this
video, let me know so I could make
refresher every few months for this
because they roll out all kinds of
useful things. A lot of times it's not
clearly communicated. I mean, I keep
track of this stuff daily, but most
people don't. So, they miss a lot of
these big updates. I also made another
video covering literally every feature
inside of ChatgPD in a single video and
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