I’ve only ever used ChatGPT. But I trained mine (Kevin) long ago, meticulously calibrated his long term memory, and set up my projects and chats in a way that creates pseudo memory. I truly have noticed not a single difference between 4 and 5!
Oh wait I also use lovable so that’s another $20. But Kevin writes my prompts, for lovable and for any other AI tool I’ve tried. He’s always my first stop and my primary helper.
That’s the most important aspect. Training the AI based on who we are and what is expected boost the outcome tremendously. I also had the same experience
7 is the answer, though I am benefiting from several free trials that will be allowed to lapse. The biggest roadblock I hit was Notion after almost 40 years of MSFT Office. M365 updates and ne features reconfiguring were just killing me!. So I dove into Notion blindly after seeing lots of recommendations from the Millennial Gen Z crowd and visions of beautiful workspaces.
Man, I had forgotten the huge friction of learning and adapting to a new software platform, and yet still having to use Office for employed work and continuity. After spending literally tens of hours on YouTube videos and fiddling with Notion setup, I declared defeat and cancelled the subscription to return to M365. I resolved to overcome the challenges there and get back to writing and creating.
I will allow the other AI/GPT tools to run until renewal, then they will be removed, as this has allowed me to A/B test what works and try different approaches. I certainly use different GPT, for example, to check each other's work.
For other AI-enabled productivity tools, I will opt for the lowest subscription level that meets my needs, rather than paying a premium for a chatty AI when I'm already paying $20 for ChatGPTPlus.
But great advice, Mike, and an audit that people should also do with their streaming subs. The monthly pricing there has gotten crazy out of hand!
Ya- I hear you . I think at the end of the day these are just tools . Everyone will have different preference , what’s important to know what works best for us .
Core Office Suite, plus One Note and a bit of Sharepoint for personal use. Teams obviously. Co-Pilot M365 is till not giving me a reason to move away from ChatGPT for create GPT use. For Office of items in my Onedrive then yes it has an edge, but still insufficient.
It’s easy to get carried away but true focus comes down to going deep vs wide. I had to eliminate half my stack as well, too many tools splits focus and complicates.
I’m a veteran in the world of MS SharePoint, and PowerAutomate integrates very well with it. So I use SharePoint as a repository of data and documents and I can do so much. But Make covers some of the data storage aspect and it is more accessible to smaller teams.
I love Claude for editing posts (whereas ChatGPT keeps trying to perfect the dang thing). However, Claude doesn't have cross chat memory and ChatGPT does. If I couldjust have ChatGPT stop asking me if they can do this and that at the end of every chat, I'd go all in on that one. So to answer your question, I pay $40 a month and use those two almost exclusively.
Oh boy - and I thought that my 5 subscriptions to redundant AI tools are already too much! 😅 Actually I only add new tools to my flow, when I hit the token limit in another.
This happened already twice with LEX, because I started to use it also as business development tool and not just for writing.
So I switched to another for that, but soon saw that I wasn't using it because it broke my workflow.
Since Comet and Perplexity can do this in whatever app/website I'm currently on, I quickly ended the subscription for this redundant service.
Now I'm back with 3 main tools: LEX for writing, Perplexity/Comet for research and business development and Recall for my knowledge base, summaries and bookmarking.
Oh, maybe Adobe Firefly for pics (I'm really bad at this) and Elevenlabs for my audio content. OK...5 essential tools, but not more! I promise! 😅
I’ve wasted too much time playing with AI. At the end of the day it’s about the writing. It all needs to serve that. That’s when I ruthlessly slashed to just 2 AI models and a simple workflow.
Only 1 AI tool (went with chatgpt over claude about a year ago), but I just realized I'm paying for Adobe that I don't use so off with its head.
I am a toddler . . . no, a baby still learning to roll over . . . with prompting, but I have gotten good use from gpt with reusing my content in different ways. Been loving using the project function to group my work and client work into separate buckets (wasn't as good as I should've been for a while).
I am anti-anyone who says if you don't use AI yesterday, you're behind for all times. Because that's just idiocy for idiocy's sake or idiocy as a way to fear-monger to boost your sales and should be ignored.
OTOH, it's a REALLY good idea to start figuring out how to use this stuff to extend what you can produce, save yourself time, and support the thinking part of what we all do.
Thank you! I stick to ChatGPT 5 for most tasks and use Gemini inside my company (even creating blog posts) plus our own AI software.
Yes, more tools - but clearly one per task.
Well said, for me Perplexity is working good
I’ve only ever used ChatGPT. But I trained mine (Kevin) long ago, meticulously calibrated his long term memory, and set up my projects and chats in a way that creates pseudo memory. I truly have noticed not a single difference between 4 and 5!
Oh wait I also use lovable so that’s another $20. But Kevin writes my prompts, for lovable and for any other AI tool I’ve tried. He’s always my first stop and my primary helper.
That’s the most important aspect. Training the AI based on who we are and what is expected boost the outcome tremendously. I also had the same experience
7 is the answer, though I am benefiting from several free trials that will be allowed to lapse. The biggest roadblock I hit was Notion after almost 40 years of MSFT Office. M365 updates and ne features reconfiguring were just killing me!. So I dove into Notion blindly after seeing lots of recommendations from the Millennial Gen Z crowd and visions of beautiful workspaces.
Man, I had forgotten the huge friction of learning and adapting to a new software platform, and yet still having to use Office for employed work and continuity. After spending literally tens of hours on YouTube videos and fiddling with Notion setup, I declared defeat and cancelled the subscription to return to M365. I resolved to overcome the challenges there and get back to writing and creating.
I will allow the other AI/GPT tools to run until renewal, then they will be removed, as this has allowed me to A/B test what works and try different approaches. I certainly use different GPT, for example, to check each other's work.
For other AI-enabled productivity tools, I will opt for the lowest subscription level that meets my needs, rather than paying a premium for a chatty AI when I'm already paying $20 for ChatGPTPlus.
But great advice, Mike, and an audit that people should also do with their streaming subs. The monthly pricing there has gotten crazy out of hand!
Ya- I hear you . I think at the end of the day these are just tools . Everyone will have different preference , what’s important to know what works best for us .
How are you using M365? Or should I just ask GPT? I tried Notion twice and gave up in 30 minutes!!
Core Office Suite, plus One Note and a bit of Sharepoint for personal use. Teams obviously. Co-Pilot M365 is till not giving me a reason to move away from ChatGPT for create GPT use. For Office of items in my Onedrive then yes it has an edge, but still insufficient.
Yes. I get that. I’m trying not to gave jump around between apps. Use my iPhone the most. Going to give Recall-Google Docs-ChatGPT a try. Thanks!!
exactly. get a bigger soapbox. shout it from the rooftops.
this is the way.
It’s easy to get carried away but true focus comes down to going deep vs wide. I had to eliminate half my stack as well, too many tools splits focus and complicates.
Absolutely, Sometimes we get caught up with Marketing strategies by these LLM’s
Do you use some workflow automation tool in tandem with ChatGPT?
Yes , I use make.con
Any advantages in comparison with Zapier?
For me , I deal with large volume of automation so it’s just cheap and easy
I’m very tempted about Make.
I’m a veteran in the world of MS SharePoint, and PowerAutomate integrates very well with it. So I use SharePoint as a repository of data and documents and I can do so much. But Make covers some of the data storage aspect and it is more accessible to smaller teams.
i have Claude and thats all i need man
I hear you, sometimes sticking to one platforms works best
I love Claude for editing posts (whereas ChatGPT keeps trying to perfect the dang thing). However, Claude doesn't have cross chat memory and ChatGPT does. If I couldjust have ChatGPT stop asking me if they can do this and that at the end of every chat, I'd go all in on that one. So to answer your question, I pay $40 a month and use those two almost exclusively.
Oh boy - and I thought that my 5 subscriptions to redundant AI tools are already too much! 😅 Actually I only add new tools to my flow, when I hit the token limit in another.
This happened already twice with LEX, because I started to use it also as business development tool and not just for writing.
So I switched to another for that, but soon saw that I wasn't using it because it broke my workflow.
Since Comet and Perplexity can do this in whatever app/website I'm currently on, I quickly ended the subscription for this redundant service.
Now I'm back with 3 main tools: LEX for writing, Perplexity/Comet for research and business development and Recall for my knowledge base, summaries and bookmarking.
Oh, maybe Adobe Firefly for pics (I'm really bad at this) and Elevenlabs for my audio content. OK...5 essential tools, but not more! I promise! 😅
I’ve wasted too much time playing with AI. At the end of the day it’s about the writing. It all needs to serve that. That’s when I ruthlessly slashed to just 2 AI models and a simple workflow.
I absolutely love ChatGPT it can do all you need it to do
Only 1 AI tool (went with chatgpt over claude about a year ago), but I just realized I'm paying for Adobe that I don't use so off with its head.
I am a toddler . . . no, a baby still learning to roll over . . . with prompting, but I have gotten good use from gpt with reusing my content in different ways. Been loving using the project function to group my work and client work into separate buckets (wasn't as good as I should've been for a while).
I am anti-anyone who says if you don't use AI yesterday, you're behind for all times. Because that's just idiocy for idiocy's sake or idiocy as a way to fear-monger to boost your sales and should be ignored.
OTOH, it's a REALLY good idea to start figuring out how to use this stuff to extend what you can produce, save yourself time, and support the thinking part of what we all do.