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  1. 12/10/2025

    Audio Takeaway: Your Screenshots Are a Graveyard. Here's the Fix.

    Your Screenshots Are Abandoned You know that screenshot you took last week? The one with the tracking number. Or the settings panel you spent fifteen minutes hunting for. Where is it now? Buried. Under a thousand files named by a machine that assumes you’ll never need any of them again. Here’s the problem: your phone treats screenshots like disposable noise. One tap, one intention... and then it’s gone. You can’t search for something called IMG_4739.png because you have no idea that’s what it’s called. Screenshot to System with Shortcuts I built a shortcut system that uses AI to look at my screenshots and name them based on what’s actually in the image. My files now have names like task_dashboard_priorities_view instead of meaningless strings of numbers. The core “aha” is thinking searchable instead of organized: AI naming beats human naming every time because you get descriptive names that are useful six months later. I also built a shortcut that transcribes videos into searchable notes. The whole system runs automatically and took maybe 30 minutes to set up. Why It Matters What you built today isn’t just file organization. It’s the beginning of trusting your own capture instincts again. Your capture behavior stays exactly the same, but your retrieval becomes infinitely better. The system gets more valuable the longer you run it, and it costs you nothing but the 10 minutes you spend setting it up today. Your phone finally becomes a memory system, not a storage device. The Breakdown: Prompts, Guides, and Downloads I broke down exactly how to build the shortcut, the five different automation workflows (including an instant Mac Namer and the Video Transcriber), and the exact steps for setup. The full article has the prompts, the steps, and the specific features. Your move Pick one shortcut. Build it this weekend. The full article breaks down five different shortcut options depending on how hands-off you want to be. Plus the actual shortcut downloads so you can install them in one tap. Don’t let them miss out. Share this article and give a boost to someone’s workflow. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit techtiff.substack.com/subscribe

    4 min

  2. 12/01/2025

    Audio Takeaway: Stop Chatting. Start Building.

    This post is partnered with Manus.im. All opinions and testing are my own. When “I Have an Idea” Turns Into “I Already Built It” You’ve got notes in one app, reminders in another, tasks in a third, and a content calendar in something you forgot the password to. Every productivity tool promises to fix the chaos, but all it really does is give you another system to manage. Another tab you’ll ignore by next Tuesday. So what if you stopped looking for the perfect app and just... built one? I tested Manus 1.5 for a project, and here’s what happened: I sent one prompt and got a fully functional app back. Backend, database, user authentication, Stripe integration. (The kind of thing a dev team builds over months). From a single prompt. But the build isn’t even the story: The real shift is how it works. With most AI tools, you’re stuck in a chat window, monitoring output, watching for errors. Manus works asynchronously. You email a task like you’d hand it to a teammate. You close your laptop. It delivers finished work to your inbox. This is the move from AI as a chat interface to AI as a collaborator who actually follows through. ➡️ Try Manus and get 1,000 credits for free For anyone sitting on an idea they couldn’t execute because they don’t code, the barrier just dropped. The question isn’t whether you have technical skills, it’s whether you have an idea worth building. I broke down exactly what Manus built, the research workflow that shaped the app’s AI behavior, and how to decide when to email a task versus iterate in real-time. The full article has the prompts, the project phases, and the specific features you can replicate for your own build. Your move. Want prompts, breakdowns, and real builds like this? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit techtiff.substack.com/subscribe

    10 min

  3. 11/24/2025

    Audio Takeaway: Your AI Creative Team is Live

    Adobe just made you a creative director. Here’s what that means for your business. You’ve been generating AI images that look impressive until you zoom in. Then the text is garbled, the details fall apart, and you’re back to manual cleanup. Meanwhile, you’re juggling subscriptions across five different platforms just to get one campaign done. Adobe integrated Google’s Nano Banana Pro into Firefly and Photoshop. I tested it by turning a photo of my dog into a complete Instagram marketing campaign: production-ready assets with legible text in under five minutes. Here’s what you get: 4K resolution images that don’t need upscaling. Text that actually renders clean and readable. Character consistency across multiple variations. All inside one workspace where you can move from concept to Photoshop editing without switching apps or losing context. The strategic shift: Adobe isn’t competing with one AI model. They’re building infrastructure that connects specialist models (OpenAI, Runway, Luma AI, ElevenLabs) so you pick the right tool for each task instead of forcing one model to do everything poorly. This moves you from executor to creative director. You’re not learning more Photoshop techniques, you’re learning to orchestrate AI specialists like team members. Direct the vision, assign the tasks, get production-ready output. Read the full breakdown and grab the prompts that showcase Nano Banana Pro’s strengths: Get future drops like this delivered straight to you. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit techtiff.substack.com/subscribe

    8 min

  4. 11/16/2025

    Audio Takeaway: Your AI Has Multiple Personalities

    Here’s something you’ve probably seen: you give the same prompt to two different AI models, and the outputs look like they came from two completely different tools. One goes full stylized. One goes photorealistic. One keeps a character consistent. One doesn’t. That difference isn’t random. It’s personality: the way each model was trained, what it prioritizes, and the type of work it naturally handles best. Once you understand those traits, choosing the right model stops feeling like guesswork. And with new models dropping constantly, that clarity keeps you from wasting time relearning tools you never needed in the first place. Stop forcing one model to do everything You get loyal to one AI tool. You’ve spent weeks learning its quirks, building prompts, figuring out what works. Switching feels like throwing that investment away. But that loyalty is costing you. You wouldn’t hire the same person to design your logo, edit your podcast, and manage your finances. Different jobs need different specialists. Same goes for AI models. Try asking Midjourney for photorealistic product shots and you’re basically fighting against its personality. It’s built for stylized, artistic work. Flux handles realism. Nano Banana nails consistency across multiple shots. Same prompt, completely different outputs because each model was trained differently. I talked with Katelyn Chedraoui at CNET about this exact thing: AI model personalities and why smart creators treat tools like a team, not a committed relationship. The creators getting results aren’t loyal, they’re strategic. They know Nano Banana preserves character accuracy shot after shot. They use Flux when they need human faces that actually look human. They go to Midjourney when they want something visually unique. The Real Shift Stop asking “Which AI is best?” and start asking “Which tool fits this specific job?” When you build a system where you know exactly which model to use for each situation, AI stops being overwhelming and starts being operational. That’s systems thinking - knowing your tools well enough to cast the right one for the right job. Work smart. Automate harder. Subscribe to get drops that move the needle. Read the Full Breakdown Grab my model selection guide, specific prompts for picking the right tool, and real multi-model workflow examples. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit techtiff.substack.com/subscribe

    8 min
  5. Audio Takeaway: Two Weeks of AI Updates

    11/03/2025

    Audio Takeaway: Two Weeks of AI Updates

    A Lot Happened in AI the Past Two Weeks. Here’s What Actually Matters. Claude can now import memories from ChatGPT. Atlas makes your Custom GPTs functional while you browse. Adobe’s integrating ChatGPT directly into Express. These aren’t isolated features. This is infrastructure shifting. The walls between your AI tools are coming down. For the first time, you can build intelligence in one place and have it follow you everywhere else. Let’s break down what changed and why it’s all connected. Your AI Tools Just Became a System Until now, every AI platform was its own island. You’d train ChatGPT on your brand voice, open Claude and explain the same thing, then use Gemini for research and re-upload your context docs. That’s over. Claude Memory lets you import everything you’ve trained ChatGPT on—your brand voice, your systems, your strategy—and make it permanent. Your scattered AI context becomes one portable business brain. No more copy-pasting. No more “remember that I...” at the start of every conversation. Claude Skills take it further. You package your expertise once: your evaluation frameworks, your templates, your quality standards, and Claude loads them automatically when relevant. Think of it like creating plugins for how Claude thinks about your work. The difference? You stop being a broken record. That 50-page brand guide? It’s there when you need it, invisible when you don’t. Your complete database documentation? Claude knows it exists and loads the relevant parts. Your entire process library? Available without overwhelming every conversation. ChatGPT Atlas turns your Custom GPTs into teammates that actually see what you’re looking at in your browser. That Proposal Writer you built? It now reads RFPs in real-time without you screenshotting anything. Your SEO Analyzer? It’s reviewing competitor sites while you scroll. Atlas didn’t just stick ChatGPT in a sidebar. It built a brain bridge, a real connection between what you’re looking at and what your AI can do. Your Custom GPTs become functional, not decorative. This is your competitive edge. Subscribe for exclusive access to game-changing content. What Adobe MAX Revealed About Where This Is Going I spent two days at Adobe MAX watching their research team demo experimental projects and testing their new tools. Here’s what shipped and what’s coming: ChatGPT + Adobe Express is live in beta. You can design directly in ChatGPT (coming soon) or use the AI Assistant in Express today. The integration is important: it’s Adobe acknowledging that your workflow lives in multiple places and building bridges between them. Premiere Pro Mobile with AI audio cleanup actually works. I tested this feature out right away. I had recorded audio in a chaotic environment and watched Premiere strip out background noise in real-time, and it didn’t leave me sounding like a robot. Studio-clean output from an iPhone. Firefly’s multi-model approach means you choose between Google, OpenAI, Black Forest Labs, and Adobe’s own models depending on the task. Different AI engines for different creative needs. This is smart infrastructure, not vendor lock-in. But the project that caught my attention was Project Moonlight: AI that learns what content works for YOUR audience and suggests what to create next. Not generic advice. Strategy based on your actual performance data. The shift Adobe’s making? You no longer need to be an expert who remembers where every tool and button lives. The AI handles execution. You elevate to creative director, focusing purely on vision. Sound familiar? That’s the same shift happening with Claude Skills and Atlas. The tools are learning to handle the operational layer so you can think at the strategic layer. This Isn’t About Features. It’s About Architecture. What we’re watching is AI tools learning to share context, import knowledge, and function as an interconnected system instead of isolated platforms. Your Custom GPT in Atlas that sees what you’re browsing. Your Claude Memory importing months of ChatGPT training. Adobe’s Moonlight learning your content strategy. These aren’t separate products. They’re parts of an emerging infrastructure. The question isn’t “which AI should I use?” anymore. The question is: How do I architect these tools so my intelligence compounds instead of fragments? That’s what I’m building toward. Not tips and tricks. Not feature reviews. Systems that actually scale with how you work. Read the full breakdowns: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit techtiff.substack.com/subscribe

    9 min

  6. 10/20/2025

    Audio Takeaway: Stop Prompting. Start Talking.

    What would I even use ChatGPT for? You don’t need a template. You need a question. The word “prompt” makes ChatGPT sound technical. Like there’s a right way and a wrong way to talk to it. So people wait, thinking they need to learn something first before they can use it properly. But here’s what actually works: conversation. Not perfect opening lines. Not carefully crafted commands. Just asking a question and then following up based on what comes back. The best ChatGPT interactions aren’t one-shot prompts. They’re dialogues. You ask something. It responds. You say “make that less formal” or “give me three more options” or “that’s close but not quite.” ChatGPT can help you figure out what you’re actually trying to say. You don’t need the perfect opening line. You just need to start the conversation. The same back-and-forth you already do with every colleague, every client, every person who helps you think through a problem. ChatGPT can help you figure out what you’re actually trying to say. You describe what you want in plain language, and it helps you refine it. No syntax required. No templates. Just clarity about what you’re thinking. This is your competitive edge. Subscribe for exclusive access to game-changing content. The real skill isn’t crafting the perfect first message. It’s knowing how to steer the conversation. Recognizing when it misunderstood and redirecting. Building on what works. Asking better follow-up questions. Here’s what shifts everything: The future of AI fluency isn’t about learning how to engineer prompts. It’s about learning how to think in conversation with intelligence. You already know how to have a conversation. That’s the only skill that matters. Stop waiting for the perfect template. Start the conversation that’s actually on your mind. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit techtiff.substack.com/subscribe

    7 min

  7. 10/12/2025

    Audio Takeaway: How I Manage My Chaos with ChatGPT Projects

    We’re Not Organizing Conversations. We’re Building Intelligence That Compounds. Here’s the thing: we’re at this inflection point where AI stops being just a tool you use and starts being a workspace you build. Think about that distinction for a second. A tool is transactional. You pick it up, use it, put it down. But a workspace? That accumulates context. It has memory. It gets smarter the more you’re in it. Most people think they’re organizing their ChatGPT conversations in projects. That’s not what’s happening. You’re building intelligence that compounds. Every time you refine instructions, you’re not just fixing one response; you’re establishing patterns that influence every future interaction. Every file you upload isn’t reference material. It’s training data for how ChatGPT understands quality in your context. The algorithm wanted you to subscribe. We’re just going with it. Don’t fight the inevitable. When you write instructions for a project, you’re really answering four key questions: * Who are you in this work? * How do you want information structured? * What are your absolute boundaries? * What does good actually look like in your world? These aren’t just instructions for ChatGPT. They’re specifications for how you want your AI to think. And project-only memory? It’s not just privacy. It’s architecture. You’re creating separate cognitive environments with different rules. One project knows you as the casual newsletter writer. Another knows you as the formal consultant. Same person, different context, different intelligence. The difference between using AI and building with it. Most of us are still in transaction mode. But the tools are shifting underneath us. The question is whether we’re shifting with them. Read the full breakdown for my project instruction structure, specific settings, and how to build workspaces that actually know how you work. Warning: Reading this article may cause success. Please share it responsibly... or recklessly. We don’t judge. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit techtiff.substack.com/subscribe

    8 min

  8. 10/06/2025

    Audio Takeaway: The iPhone Shortcut That Runs My Morning

    Stop Acting Like Your Phone’s Personal Assistant You wake up and immediately start the chaos ritual: open calendar, check email, scroll reminders, tab to weather. You’re manually piecing together what your day looks like while your $1,000 pocket computer just sits there waiting for instructions. Here’s what’s actually wild: Your iPhone can talk to your apps, process data, and make decisions. But you’re still using it like a glorified alarm clock that makes YOU do all the thinking. I built a system that flipped this completely. Now my phone sends me a text every morning at 7 AM (while I’m still sleeping) with my weather, calendar, unread emails, and reminders already analyzed by ChatGPT. No apps to open. No information to hunt down. Just a clean, actionable briefing waiting when I wake up. The whole system lives in your iPhone’s native Shortcuts app. Zero subscriptions. Zero new platforms to learn. It pulls your data, sends it to ChatGPT with specific instructions, and delivers your morning game plan via text. The psychological shift? I stopped living in reactive mode. Instead of waking up to chaos, I wake up to a plan. My phone finally has a job, and honestly? It’s better at morning prep than I ever was. This saves me 90+ hours a year. But the real win is starting every day with clarity instead of panic. We’re building businesses that run themselves. You in? The full article has the complete blueprint, ready-to-download shortcut, and the exact ChatGPT prompts that make this work. Time to make your iPhone actually earn its keep. Thanks for reading The AI Creator Drop! This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit techtiff.substack.com/subscribe

    9 min
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