Practical AI guides for work and study

Write your request in four parts: goal, material, output and limits. Practise with fictional team notes, edit the result and copy a request you can check.

Practise cleaning fictional project notes. Remove unnecessary personal details, keep source labels, numbers, approvals and sample limits, then check your edit before copying.

Find the official app, check the store listing and permissions, then try a small example. A payment prompt or crash alone does not prove an app is fake.

Find three errors in a fictional draft and fix them using the numbered sources. Then decide whether to use it, seek more evidence or leave it aside. Smooth writing can still be wrong.

Name the task and the limit you hit. Check whether it is about usage, files, team rules, access or accuracy, then write down your next action. Separate notes cover network and payment options for users in China.

Choose a task you can check yourself: a weekly update, short document or reading passage. Prepare a small example and follow the steps.

Use Claude to draft a checklist that compares an earlier labelled list with a later version. Keep exact source text, classify unique labels, and send malformed or conflicting entries to human review.

Use Claude to turn a permitted, redacted handover-status board image into a source-linked table, keep unknown fields visible and make a next-action list that excludes Done rows.

Manually record the duration, visible facts and audio status of a video you may describe, give only those notes to Claude, and check its one-sentence draft against the video.

Write a short book-swap jingle, make a draft in Suno, compare the lyrics with what you hear, and keep a clear review record.

Use Devin Local in Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) to propose a plan, then check it against a fictional CSV export request before any implementation.