3 ways to save hours of work with ChatGPT

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Hello and welcome to the first edition of the Prompt Warrior newsletter!

You are the early members of this community and I am super stoked to have you on board.

My goal is to maximise your experience with ChatGPT and I plan on doing that by showing you tips, examples and cool new use cases.

Today, I want to talk about the one thing that has probably saved me the most hours of work since using ChatGPT: Formatting text. Turns out, ChatGPT is the ultimate assistant for this boring part of work, that we all have to do, but want to get rid off.

Let’s dive right in.

🖌 Transform text to table

This is one of the most useful and underrated abilities of ChatGPT.

Say you copied a list of AI tools from a website. Now, simply tell ChatGPT to transform this list into a table, and specify what columns the table should have.

The result is a structured table that you can copy and paste. You can even add new columns and ChatGPT will populate them by itself. In this case it created sensible category names for my AI tools list:

🧹 Easily remove unnecessary information

Here’s another superpower of ChatGPT. Since ChatGPT can understand the underlying text, you can simply tell it to remove unnecessary parts.

In this example I copy pasted some AI tools from a Twitter thread. As you can see, the copied text not only contains the tool name, a description and an URL, but also timestamps and a Twitter username.

Again, I simply specify the table columns that I want this text to be transformed into. But now, I also tell ChatGPT that the unnecessary text should be removed.

Immediately, it spits out a table boiled down to only the information that I was looking for:

⚙️ Transform table into CSV

Now that you’ve got a table of useful information, you might want to export that to another tool. A great format to do that is CSV.

You can simply tell ChatGPT to turn the table into CSV format that you can copy paste.

In this case, I transferred this into my Notion database where I collect all the AI tools that I want to test out. (You can grab the list and template here for free.)

Want more?

If you liked these tips, have a look at my recent Twitter thread. I explain 7 more tips how you can save hours of work formatting text.

That’s it for today!

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Thank you so much again for being an early member in this community. We are just getting started!

Moritz 

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