AI that helps real life
Practical ways to use AI for everyday work and home, written for people with a job and a washing machine rather than a research lab. No hype, no forty tab tool stack. Just the things that quietly save an hour a week.
What you will find here
At work
Inbox triage, messy notes turned into actions, the first draft you were dreading. Small habits that give you back the start of your week.
At home
Renewals, forms, meal plans and the jobs that live rent free in your head. Ways to get the admin down to a list you can actually finish.
Prompts you can reuse
Plain wording you can copy, paste and keep. No personas, no magic phrases, nothing you need to buy to make it work.
Latest from the blog
- Write an email that gets a reply in ten minutesEmails that get no reply usually make the reader work too hard. Spend ten minutes with AI finding the real ask, putting it up front, and making it sound like you again.
- Get up to speed on a new topic in ten minutesSomething new landed on your plate? Spend ten minutes with AI getting a plain English primer and the questions an expert would ask, check the key facts, then write three lines in your own words.
- Make sense of a confusing letter in ten minutesGot a confusing bill or letter on the side? Spend ten minutes getting a plain English summary from AI, check the numbers yourself, and turn it into one clear action.
- Rehearse a tricky conversation in ten minutesGot a tricky conversation coming up? Spend ten minutes having AI play the other person, find the questions you are least ready for, then write three sentences in your own words.
New posts land every week or two, usually whenever something has saved me enough time to be worth writing down. Have a read, try one thing, and let me know how it goes.