Writing & Content AI hacks

Trading card game creator has ChatGPT research news every Sunday, draft short magazine articles and plan posts in Google Sheets

A hobby creator running Instagram and TikTok accounts about Magic: The Gathering and other card games has ChatGPT search for news every Sunday, check sources and prepare short articles for a monthly digital magazine, with content planned weeks ahead in Google Sheets.

Spotted on u/_necrobite_

Teacher stuck rewriting a reply to a frustrating student email asks ChatGPT for versions in the voices of educators they admire

After spending ages writing and rewriting a reply to a student who blamed them for not understanding work they had missed for a month, a teacher asked ChatGPT to answer the email as people whose teaching philosophies they try to follow.

Spotted on u/Lucky_Stay_7187

Longtime Perplexity user tries its Office 365 add-in in Word to fix spelling, spot contradictions and draft a section from the company website

Working on a long document in Word, a Perplexity user had the Office 365 add-in correct all the spelling with one command, point out contradictory ideas, and write a new section from their company's website.

Spotted on u/sunnybob24

Job seeker uploads a resume to ChatGPT and has it reformatted to suit applicant tracking systems

A job seeker uploaded their resume to ChatGPT, asked it to format the document to match what applicant tracking systems expect, then made a few edits to the updated version it sent back.

Spotted on Dylan (@Dylan_____J)

Writer who must produce legal documents in both English and French has Gemini compare the two versions and highlight discrepancies

In Quebec, where documents often have to exist in both languages, a user has Gemini review the English and French versions of a legal draft side by side and point out where they do not match, instead of reading both line by line.

Spotted on Mzz Mara (@MzMaraO)

Teacher has Gemini Canvas build an interactive, spooky roll-a-story writing game for grades 5 to 8

To get students writing, a teacher asked Gemini's Canvas tool to make an interactive Halloween version of roll a story, where a roll of the die picks the story elements students write about.

Spotted on Alice Keeler (@alicekeeler)

Teacher has a Gemini notebook make a slide deck to support students who are below grade level, then uses Revise to fix it

An educator asked a notebook in Google Gemini to make a slide deck supporting students who aren't at grade level, and used the notebook's Revise button to ask for changes to the parts that didn't fit.

Spotted on Alice Keeler (@alicekeeler)

Japanese class teacher has Grok Bot write original worksheets, a quiz and slides based on a textbook's grammar

To teach a beginner Japanese class without copying pages from the textbook, a teacher asked Grok Bot to create new material covering the same grammar and vocabulary: worksheets, a Halloween bonus sheet, alphabet practice, a quiz and a PowerPoint.

Days of work · their claim

Spotted on @JonBbC_TechGeek

Helper has Copilot turn an older friend's handwritten insurance appeal into a typed, professional letter

An older friend hand-wrote a letter asking the insurer to reverse a denied hospital bill. A helper scanned it and asked AI to turn it into a professional typed letter; Gemini and Perplexity didn't manage it, but Copilot did.

A lot of time · their claim

Spotted on galaxyLogic

Small business owner adds one help-center article a day, using Claude only for outlines

To keep up with SEO content, a business owner publishes one 250 to 600 word knowledge-base article a day and uses Claude to brainstorm the outline and intro, not to write it.

Spotted on u/FruitfulFraud

Editor builds a Claude cutting skill and says "editor's note" on camera to guide it

A longtime editor teaches Claude their cutting style on two-minute samples in DaVinci Resolve, saves the rules as a skill, and says "reset" or "editor's note, use take two" while filming so Claude knows which take to keep.

Spotted on Andy Diep

Web designer drafts blog posts with a Claude script that pulls from a content calendar and saves drafts in WordPress

A web designer who has built small business sites since 2007 wrote a Python script that reads their content calendar and notes, sends each topic to Claude with their voice rules and saves a draft in WordPress. Nothing publishes until they approve it.

Spotted on Karen Lewis (Karen Lewis Creative)

Office worker has Claude edit live Sheets, Docs and Slides through an open-source MCP server

Instead of exporting CSVs, a commenter connects Claude to Google Workspace with an open-source MCP server and watches it update Sheets, Docs and Slides in place.

Spotted on u/boxedwinedrinker

Speaker has Claude review every slide as an image and catches leftover notes

After building a talk deck on a flight with Claude Code and Gamma, a speaker had Claude export it to PDF and look at each page as an image, which caught their own notes printed on the slides.

Spotted on James Pelton

Pet owner removes a leash and swaps a car-seat background for a Halloween scene with Nano Banana Pro

Someone took a portrait of their dog in the back seat of a car and asked Nano Banana Pro in Gemini to remove the leash and give it a festive Halloween background, while keeping the dog's face, markings, expression and bandana.

Spotted on u/rurbornse

Founder fills in a proposal template, then has ChatGPT tighten it

A founder stopped writing proposals from scratch: they fill in the blanks in one template doc and have ChatGPT tighten the result.

About 2 hours down to 20 minutes per proposal · their claim

Spotted on u/Aware_Risk7076

Teacher with three different preps gives NotebookLM only their own resources, then has it draft presentations and study guides

To keep up with three preps both semesters and still leave work at school, a teacher uses NotebookLM so it only works from the resources they provide, then generates presentations and study guides from them.

Spotted on u/MrMurrayOHS

Non-editor cuts a five-episode audio series by editing the transcript

A self-described amateur is editing a five-episode audio-only series in Descript by editing the transcript, and found the desktop app fixed the bugs that plagued the browser version.

Spotted on u/GinsbergianWindpipe

Teacher combining two lessons into one day uploads both slide decks to Gemini and asks for one file with a matching style

When a teacher decides to squeeze two lessons into one class, they upload the slides to Gemini and ask it to make them one file with a matching style, instead of copying and restyling slides by hand.

Spotted on u/ThatOnePK

Person uses Copilot to help send a demand letter and complaint to an insurance company, which paid within a week

In a dispute with an insurance company, a person used Copilot to help put together and send a demand letter and a complaint, and says the insurer paid within a week.

Spotted on @jayw1848

Consultant has Claude learn a builder's writing style from six months of sent email

For a building company, an AI consultant had Claude read six months of sent emails, group them by recipient and purpose, and turn the patterns into a skill that drafts inquiry replies.

Spotted on Blake Harkness

Tutorial creator has Claude Code run transcription, cuts, animations and sound for every video

A non-coder YouTuber built a Claude Code editing setup where Parakeet transcribes, Hyperframes renders animations, Tella handles screen recordings, Epidemic Sound supplies music and FFmpeg finishes the file, all guided by a 1,400-line style skill.

Thousands of dollars a month · their claim

Spotted on Christian Peverelli

Renter has ChatGPT review a landlord's deposit refund denial and gets the entire deposit back

A former renter had ChatGPT review their previous landlord's denial of a deposit refund; it said the denial didn't hold up and helped write a response, and the renter got the whole deposit back.

US$1000 security deposit returned · their claim

Spotted on @LynneGuire

Newsletter writer lets AI draft three issues: open rates hold, but replies drop and a reader notices

A weekly newsletter writer with about 700 subscribers had AI draft sections of three issues from their past issues and outlines. First drafts went from about 2 hours to 35 minutes and open rates stayed flat, but replies fell and one reader said they sounded tired.

Spotted on u/Zunab_Tariq