Time-Saving Uses for ChatGPT
- jeanna55
- Mar 9
- 2 min read
By now, most professionals have figured out that using ChatGPT to create documents like articles, case studies, blog posts, etc. ends in disappointment—just a lot of generic copy that lacks insight, personality, creativity, etc. In fact, if you ask ChatGPT about the reading level for most content, it will tell you it’s geared toward 12-15-year-olds. This is fine for content meant for consumers, but without significant editing, falls short for business-oriented content. I’ve learned the hard way that anything ChatGPT creates that requires more than very basic editing, is going to end in a mess with 2 different writing styles in one document.
There are, however, a few great uses for writing higher-level content meant for a business or academic audience. Here are a few:
1. Creating Outlines: If you are specific in the prompt—i.e. exactly what the proposed content will be about—and ask ChatGPT to create an outline, it does a surprisingly thorough job. The prompt should be something like this: “Please create an outline for an article about XXX meant for an audience of XXX.”
This will save you A LOT of time.
2. Organizing Items in a List: Faced with a long list of references to add to the end of an article, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to see if ChatGPT would alphabetize them for me. The prompt was something like this: please organize the following alphabetically by the first author’s last name.” I then pasted in the list. It took ChatGPT 20 seconds. It would have taken me at least a half hour.
3. Creating Introductions and Summaries: I don’t even bother creating either of these from scratch any more. I just create the document and use this prompt: “Please create an introduction for the following content.” I then paste the content after the prompt. It will require a little rewriting, but you can be assured that it’s not going to miss any points in the content (which you would have probably done yourself).
4. Topic Suggestions: Coming up with good topics, for blog posts in particular, can take some time. If you give ChatGPT some general direction, you can ask it for a list of possible topics—its best to specify how many options you would like. So, the prompt would look like this. “I need a list of 10 possible topics for a blog post on XX.” You can count on at least one of them being exactly what you need.
Don’t ask ChatGPT to critique anything you’ve written. It doesn’t understand things like your writing style, the details of your strategy or your unique audience. Also don’t ask ChatGPT to expand or condense anything—i.e. “Please expand the attached 1,500-word article to 3,000 words.” It just doesn’t do a good job of either. If you are concerned about privacy issues and ChatGPT, you can toggle off the “Sharing” function in your ChatGPT account.
Although ChatGPT generally does save me time, it doesn’t always. I look at it as more of a quality-improvement tool than a time-saving tool.
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