AI Once a Day

Hey, Ivy here. If an AI answer feels vague, the prompt may be the problem. Try this simple structure: Role. Task. Format. Role tells the model who to be. Task tells it what to do. Format tells it how to hand the answer back. For example: You're a skeptical editor. Review this draft for clarity. Give me five bullet points and rewrite the worst paragraph. That is usually enough to make the result sh...

Hey, Ivy here. If you keep re-explaining the same project every time you open Claude, Projects are finally useful for one simple reason. They remove setup. Projects let you keep the chats, instructions, and reference material for one recurring workflow in one place. That makes them a good fit for things like proposals, content series, launch plans, and weekly reports. Start simple. Give the Projec...

Hey, Ivy here. Before you send a draft, try one fast AI check. Paste your email, post, or update into AI and ask: What is unclear, easy to misread, or missing context here? That is a better prompt than just asking it to make the draft sound better. You want it to read like someone seeing the message for the first time. Have it flag vague lines, hidden assumptions, and the question the reader would...

Hey, Ivy here. If your inbox feels like a wall of random priorities, here’s a better way to start. Paste your recent emails into AI and ask it to sort them into three buckets: urgent replies, important but not urgent, and FYI only. Then ask for the top five actions you should take next, plus anything time-sensitive or waiting on your reply. That won’t magically do your inbox for you. But it will h...

Don't ask for one draft. Ask for five — bold, conservative, weird, plain, contrarian. Then pick. Selection beats generation.

Ask AI: what's missing from this? It surfaces the question you forgot to ask and the angle you forgot to consider.

Adding 'I'm a beginner' to a prompt changes the answer more than people realize. Less jargon, more useful steps.

If a draft feels bloated, tell AI to cut it in half without losing the point. You'll usually like the second version better.

Have AI ask you three sharp questions before it answers. The answer gets sharper, and so does your thinking.

Hey, Ivy here. Before you ask AI to defend your idea, ask it to steel-man the opposite. You'll catch the weak spots faster than any pep talk.