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Pick a tool below. Short, practical guides to getting real work done with ChatGPT and Claude. Each one starts with the answer, walks through the steps, and gives you prompts to copy, an example, and the mistakes to avoid.
How to use ChatGPT
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How to Use ChatGPT: A Beginner's Guide in 6 Steps
How to use ChatGPT for the first time: sign up, ask a clear question, add context, refine the answer, check the facts and keep your chats organized. With prompts to copy.
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How to Write Better ChatGPT Prompts (8 Rules with Examples)
How to write ChatGPT prompts that get useful answers the first time: give a role, context, the task, the format and examples, and ask it to question you first. Before-and-after prompts to copy.
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How to Use ChatGPT to Write Emails (With Prompts to Copy)
How to write emails with ChatGPT: give it the situation, the reader and the outcome you want, then edit for your own voice. Prompts for follow-ups, difficult replies, requests and saying no.
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How to Use ChatGPT to Write or Improve Your Resume
How to use ChatGPT to write a resume: turn your duties into results, tailor it to each job ad, and check it reads well, without inventing anything. Prompts to copy.
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How to Use ChatGPT to Write a Cover Letter That Doesn't Sound Generic
How to write a cover letter with ChatGPT that sounds like you: give it the job ad, your best two achievements and why you want this job, then cut the clichés. Prompts to copy.
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How to Summarize a PDF or Long Document with ChatGPT
How to summarize a PDF, report or contract with ChatGPT: upload the file, say who the summary is for, ask for key points with page references, then check them against the document.
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How to Use ChatGPT for Your Small Business: 10 Practical Jobs
How to use ChatGPT in a small business: customer emails, social posts, product descriptions, job ads, policies, meeting notes and planning, with a prompt for each and what to keep for yourself.
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How to Write a Business Plan with ChatGPT (Without a Generic Template)
How to write a business plan with ChatGPT: let it interview you, draft each section from your answers, stress-test your numbers and assumptions, and write the summary last.
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How to Use ChatGPT to Write Social Media Posts (a Week in 10 Minutes)
How to write social media posts with ChatGPT that sound like you: give it real news from your week, examples of past posts and each platform's style, then plan a week of posts at once.
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How to Write Product Descriptions with ChatGPT That Actually Sell
How to write product descriptions with ChatGPT: give it the real facts, the buyer and their question, get benefit-first copy, and do a whole catalog consistently. Prompts to copy.
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How to Respond to Customer Reviews with ChatGPT (Good and Bad)
How to reply to Google and Yelp reviews with ChatGPT: specific thank-yous for good reviews, calm and fair replies to bad ones, and the things you should never put in a public reply.
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How to Use ChatGPT to Write Excel and Google Sheets Formulas
How to get working Excel and Google Sheets formulas from ChatGPT: describe your columns and the result you want, ask for an explanation, and test it on a few rows before trusting it.
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How to Translate with ChatGPT (and When Not to Trust It)
How to translate with ChatGPT: give it the audience, the tone and a glossary of your terms, ask for a natural translation rather than word-for-word, and have important texts checked by a native speaker.
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How to Study and Learn Anything Faster with ChatGPT
How to learn with ChatGPT instead of just copying answers: ask it to explain at your level, quiz you, find gaps in your understanding and build a study plan. Prompts for students and adults.
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How to Keep Your Data Private in ChatGPT: Settings and Habits
How to keep your data private in ChatGPT: turn off model training in Data controls, use Temporary Chat for sensitive questions, delete old chats, and know what never to paste.
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How to Fact-Check ChatGPT's Answers (and Spot Made-Up Facts)
How to fact-check ChatGPT: know which answers are risky, ask for sources and check they exist, cross-check numbers and quotes, and use web search for anything recent.
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How to Set Custom Instructions in ChatGPT (with Examples)
How to set custom instructions in ChatGPT so every answer fits you: where the setting is, what to write about yourself and how you want answers, and examples for business owners and students.
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How to Plan a Website with ChatGPT Before You Hire Anyone
How to plan a small business website with ChatGPT: list your customers' questions, choose your pages, draft the home page message and write a clear brief for a web designer.
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How to Use ChatGPT to Write Code (Even as a Beginner)
How to write code with ChatGPT as a beginner: describe what you want in plain English, ask for small steps with explanations, run and test each piece, and paste errors back in.
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How to Use Projects in ChatGPT to Keep Your Work Organized
How to use ChatGPT Projects: group related chats, add files and instructions once, and keep separate contexts for each client, course or business task. Setup steps and ideas.
How to use Claude
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How to Use Claude: A Beginner's Guide to Anthropic's AI Assistant
How to use Claude for the first time: sign up at claude.ai, ask a clear question, upload a file, use Projects and Artifacts, and check what matters. With prompts to copy.
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How to Write Better Prompts for Claude (Anthropic's Own Advice, Explained)
How to prompt Claude well: be clear and direct, give examples, separate your material with tags, let it think step by step, and give it a role. Before-and-after prompts to copy.
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How to Use Claude for Free: What the Free Plan Includes
What you get on Claude's Free plan: chat, web search, Artifacts, memory and up to five Projects, and what needs a paid plan, like Claude Code. Plus how to get the most from the free limits.
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How to Use Claude Projects: Knowledge, Instructions and Ideas
How to use Projects in Claude: create a workspace, add project knowledge (your files) and project instructions, and keep each client, course or task separate. Free plans get up to five.
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How to Use Claude Artifacts: Documents, Charts and Small Tools
How to use Artifacts in Claude: ask for a document, chart, flowchart, web page or small interactive tool, edit it beside the chat, and share or export it. What the Free plan includes.
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How to Summarize a PDF with Claude (Contracts, Reports and Long Documents)
How to summarize a PDF with Claude: attach the file, say who the summary is for, ask for key points with page numbers, and check them. File types, size limits and how Claude reads charts.
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How to Analyze a Spreadsheet with Claude (CSV and Excel)
How to analyze a spreadsheet with Claude: upload a CSV or Excel file, ask business questions in plain English, get charts and summaries, and check the numbers it reports.
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How to Edit and Improve Your Writing with Claude (Without Losing Your Voice)
How to use Claude as an editor: ask for feedback before rewrites, fix clarity and structure, cut length, and keep your own voice. Prompts for edits from a light proofread to a full restructure.
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How to Write Emails with Claude That Sound Like You
How to use Claude to draft emails in your own voice: set up a Project with examples of your past emails, give the situation and the outcome, and edit the draft. Prompts for common business emails.
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How to Research a Topic with Claude and Web Search (with Citations)
How to research with Claude: turn on web search, ask a focused question, get answers with citations, open the sources, and compare viewpoints. Prompts for market, product and competitor research.
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How to Keep Your Data Private in Claude: Model Improvement and Incognito Chats
How to keep your data private in Claude: check the Model Improvement setting in Privacy Settings, use Incognito chats for sensitive questions, manage memory, and know what never to paste.
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How to Use Claude for Your Small Business: A Practical Setup
How to set Claude up for a small business: one Project per area (customers, marketing, admin), your policies and voice as project knowledge, and the jobs to hand over first. What to keep for yourself.
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How to Build a Simple App or Tool with Claude (No Coding Needed)
How to build a small interactive tool with Claude Artifacts without coding: describe it, try it beside the chat, improve it in plain English. Ideas, prompts, and when you need a real developer.
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How to Make a Presentation with Claude, from Notes to Slides
How to make a presentation with Claude: turn your notes into an outline, write one message per slide, create the slides as an Artifact, and export them. Prompts for pitches, training and updates.
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How to Make a Flowchart or Diagram with Claude
How to make a flowchart or process diagram with Claude: describe the steps in plain English, get a diagram as an Artifact, then fix the decisions and dead ends. Prompts for business processes.
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How to Write a Blog Post with Claude That's Worth Reading
How to write a blog post with Claude that people and Google value: start from your own experience, let Claude interview you, outline, draft section by section, and add what only you know.
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How to Learn Something New with Claude (as a Patient Tutor)
How to learn with Claude: set up a study Project with your materials, ask for explanations at your level, have Claude quiz you, and build interactive practice with Artifacts. Prompts for students and adults.
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How to Turn Meeting Notes into Action Items with Claude
How to use Claude to turn messy meeting notes or a transcript into decisions, action items with owners and dates, open questions, and a follow-up email. Prompts to copy.
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How to Use Claude Code: Anthropic's AI Coding Agent, Explained Simply
What Claude Code is and how to start: install it in the terminal or use the desktop app, VS Code or the web, give it a project, describe the task, and review every change. Plan needed and first steps.
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How to Fact-Check Claude's Answers and Avoid Made-Up Details
How to fact-check Claude: ask it to flag uncertain claims, use web search for citations, give it your own documents to answer from, and verify names, numbers and quotes at the source.
Using AI to write code? See the AI coding guides and the AI glossary.