Learn Anything with this New ChatGPT Workflow

Today I have a special video for you because we'll be combining several AI techniques to show you the ultimate way to learn new skills powered by free AI workflows. First of all, I consider this workflow legitimate superpower when it comes to learning about new concepts, but this wasn't possible a few months ago. As you'll see, two of the free steps we'll be taking here weren't even available before summer. Secondly, all of this is super accessible. We'll be using free tools. And even on the first step where we're building a custom AI tutor, I'll show you a workflow how to do this. Even though you might not have a ChatGPT plus account, you can do this inside of the free version of any LLM. And lastly, you can always take this workflow apart and only use a specific part to your own needs. So what are we about to do? First up, we'll build a custom AI tutor specialized to your own needs and your own interests. Secondly, we'll be using advanced voice modes to bring this tutor to life on your phone to assist you. This is the one step that does require a ChatGPT plus subscription, but it's totally optional. Otherwise you can just talk to the tutor via text. And then lastly, I'll show you how to curate your own knowledge library with all the knowledge that you might have encountered while learning, including what the tutor taught you. And from that knowledge library, we'll be generating audio podcasts for you to return to those concepts so that not just the learning with the tutor will be interactive, but then also returning to some of these concepts will be a little more exciting and engaging than for example, reading a textbook. Alright, let's get started. And all the resources and links you will need are linked in the description below. Okay, so we will start our learning journey inside of ChatGPT, but you can use any LLM like Claude, Gemini or whatever might be your preference. Once I'm on a ChatGPT website, there's really two options. First things first, I could use the custom GPT builder where I pre saved this big prompt inside of it. This makes it really simple as I can just click let's build a GPT and we'll start building our custom tutor right away. If you want to use a different LLM or do this in a chat of your own, you can do the following. We published the article in the public area of our community. This is completely free. You can just go to the link in the description and you can copy this entire GPT builder prompt here. Into a brand new chat chat like so. Once you send the prompt, you will arrive at the same point as with the custom GPT builder I made. Now that's step one. For step number two, I want you to copy paste this little prompt from the description of this video. It is very simple and that's fine because a lot of the complex prompting has been done inside of the GPT builder prompt. All you need to do here is specify these two variables, the subject and the number of years of your target audience. So let's have a look at this. I want this GPT to be a customized tutor specifically designed to help the user with a subject or concept. So you need to specify this right here. For our example here we'll assume that the user is learning programming. So right here I'll just say help the user with learning Python and then the user is number of years old. Let's just say 18 as this strikes a nice balance between simplicity and in depth information. But if you really want to make this tutor more simplistic, then I would opt for something like 12 or 14 years as it will really simplify down some of the concepts at the price of leaving out some details that it might give to an adult. Okay, very simple. Now I hit enter and it will build a custom tutor for me right after asking me a few more questions. Now look, I set this up in a way where you don't have to answer these. If you're lazy and you just want a quick tutor, you can just type auto here as I outline here at the bottom and it will automatically answer all five of these questions. Now if you go ahead and actually answer them like so and specify if you want it to be a patient mentor or a problem solving partner or a mix of both, I think I want a patient mentor here. Then number two, I say a mix of all of them and so on. The more details you give it, the more customized your tutor will be. Here. In the case of the tutorial I will just say auto as I'm feeling a bit lazy and I want to move forward with the tutorial and it starts building the entire Python tutor GPT for you. Now, just like the original prompt, the beautiful thing about this is that this will work inside of any LLM. I can just copy everything here from the communication sequence all the way to the bottom of these installations instructions and I have a custom tutor set up. Now the builder is set up in a way where it also creates a title, a description and even a profile picture that you could now download and use as the profile picture of your GPT, just like I have done here with the custom GPT builder. But for this concrete example, let's just copy this and head on over to Claude and use this tutor inside of Claude like so. And that's it. I just copy paste into here. And this is my custom AI tutor that will assist me in learning anything. Sure, it might give you a little disclaimer that this is Claude and not a GPT. That's because of this block. But except of this little disclaimer, there will be no change in its behavior. Now, in this tutorial, I won't be going into all the little intricacies of the tutor that we have built here, but as you can see, there's various blocks here, like it offering practice scenarios to help users apply concepts. Or it sometimes comes up with interactive learning modules and it leans into the image processing or the interpretation tools that the LLM might have. Some of these might seem useless, but in certain scenarios you actually really want this, as it acts as a reminder for LLM that it can and should use some of these tools to help the user learn. Now, that's fantastic. I did a lot of explaining here, but at the end of the day, all you need to do is start this GPT builder, share the prompt in the description where you change two words, and I can skip all the questions by simply typing auto. And there you go. I have a custom tutor for whatever I want. There you go. Excellent. Right? And now that I have this tutor inside of Claude, I can go ahead and use it. And whenever I face a problem or I'm trying to learn something, let's say I'm learning about Selenium. Help me get started. That's a package that allows you to remote control your browser to do specific operations with code. And there you go. It starts with the basics. I'll help you get started with Selenium, a powerful tool for web browser automation in Python. Let's begin with the basics. And it shows you some code, it breaks down the code, explains it all, and then how would I use it for web scraping? And now you just can have a conversation with this version of Claude that is set up to be your tutor. But our journey doesn't end here. This is how to set it up to be an assistant. Right. I really want to show you two more things that will be super helpful on your journey to learning anything. One of them is the fact that you could totally take the system prompt for your AI tutor and you could throw it into the second part of your custom instructions inside of ChatGPT, that might be too long. So what you can do is leave out the communication sequence and the first part of the instructions. Just take these various building blocks here at the bottom that it created and once you put this into the custom instructions like so. There you go. The length starts. Now what you could do is you could switch over to your phone and use the advanced voice modes to interact with your tutor. So if I open up a new chat, my custom instructions are set up and I could just activate the advanced voice mode and have this sit on my desk as I learn, as I practice. Hey, what's up? Hey there. How's it going? I'm just trying to learn Selenium right now. That's great. Selenium is a powerful tool for automating web browsers. Are you working on any specific projects with it or just getting started with learning the basics? I'm working on a specific project, but just sit here in the background. I'll speak to you as soon as I need you. Got it. I'll be here when you're ready. Just give me a shout and that's it. Now you could place your new personalized tutor on your desk and speak to it as soon as you want to. No need to prompt ChatGPT, no need to do anything. You're just doing your thing and your AI tutor is sitting on your desk waiting to help you. Two minor notes on this. One of them is that if you set this up on desktop, I would just quickly double check that the custom instructions under personalization are activated. Sometimes the screen is grayed out after you copy them over and you just go to settings and then personalization customize ChatGPT and that makes it work. It's just desktop to app thing. And secondly, there is a limit on the voice assistant. As we talked about in previous videos, just focusing on the voice assistant, it varies though. For some people it's an hour, sometimes it's two hours. But as of today, you won't be able to run this for 24 hours. Just be aware of that. But our journey doesn't end there because if you're learning something, it is absolutely essential to engage with the material to try things out so it commits to long term memory. But once you're done experimenting, there's actually a final step that will really help you lock in is completely concepts and that's engaging with the material after your initial learning session. It's refreshing all the memories and experiences you made. And there's an incredible way to do that. With AI. And it could be any simple. And this is what I want to end this video on, because look at that. We had this little chat inside of Claude where it came up with the various code and maybe this conversation went on even further and there's a whole lot there. You're not going to be returning and reading that conversation ever. Let's be real. Maybe you're going to look at the code, but you're not going to read every single thing. But this is where we're going to use NotebookLM to our advantage. And if you're not familiar, this is free software from Google, where you can create these notebooks that work in a very simple way. You upload a bunch of sources. This could be PDFs, website links, YouTube video links, or just straight up text. That's what we'll do in this case. So what I'll do here is I'll just copy my entire conversation with Claude, including the code. How about that? Just say copy on this. And here inside of NotebookLM, with a free account, I'll just paste the copied text right here. Wonderful. So as you can see here on the left, I have my pasted text as the source. You could extend this. Right. If you have YouTube videos that you watched that you thought were really valuable, guess what? You go in here and you add the YouTube link in here. If you have a PDF or a scientific paper that you want to add to your sources, you can do that too. One pro tip is that if you have a textbook and there's some concept in there, you could take a picture of that, throw that into Claude or ChatGPT and have it describe the picture. Then you take the text, put it into your notebook. Basically, you can turn this into your learning knowledge base. Everything that is relevant and that you looked at, you could put in here. And one, you do that, there's this function of generating a podcast, which will be a conversation between two AIs, rehashing all the summaries of your sources. It's the perfect way to refresh your mind on what you touched on on all of these conversations that you would not be returning to otherwise. Then it's free. You simply have to click Generate here on the audio overview and you will have a little podcast that you can then download, listen to in your car, listen to in the subway while going for a walk. Or maybe you'll just kick up your feet on the couch and listening to a conversation between two people talking about all the concepts that you were just learning about. All right, so here's our example podcast. Check this out.

All right, let's do this. Ready for a deep dive? Today we're taking you into the world of Python and web scraping.

Web scraping, huh? Yeah.

Specifically with a tool called Selenium. I bet you're here because you want to know how to actually use this stuff, right?

Right.

Not just the theory.

You.

You want to be able to grab data from websites like a pro.

Exactly.

It's like having a secret decoder ring for the Internet.

I like that. A secret decoder ring. Amazing. Just a completely different way to take in the info than just reading. Plus, you can chat with all the data here. To it, it suggests follow up prompts that can be also helpful. But I think this audio overview is just a killer feature here. This is something that was not possible a few months ago, not at this quality level. And this combination of building a custom AI assistant, running it with ChatGPT's advanced voice mode, and then returning to all those concepts by listening to a custom created podcast. In my books, it's a legit superpower when it comes to learning about new concepts. And here's a bonus step that you can incorporate in your learning journey. This is one of the most interesting AI applications I ran across lately, and I thought it was just the perfect sponsor for today's video because it can really nicely integrate into learning a brand new skill with the power of AI. Okay, so the next tool I want to show you is called Highlight, and they are the sponsor of today's video. But I'm so glad they reached out because I absolutely love the approach they took with this app. You should see this. It's a personal contextual assistant for your computer, and the keyword here is contextual. This goes beyond what ChatGPT does because that's the main problem of some of these other assistants like ChatGPT or Clouds. They're not really designed to work with your apps. They're set up to work on the side and for you to bring things in. Highlights directly integrates into your workflow. Let me show you. So, first up, the main way you interact with Highlight is this little floaty interface that you can see here. All I needed to do is install the application and give it some permissions. And now this thing patiently sits there until you need it. And once you do, all you need to do is ask highlight. And if I want to show it my screen, I just press this button and voila, right there it has an image of the screen for me to work with. And now it gives suggested prompts on top of that, Highlight actually doesn't need to have screenshots manually attached. In this way, you can just open a page and it will automatically pull that context. So let's take the classic example of a Wikipedia page and now prompt on top of it. Although this could also be useful when you're looking at WhatsApp conversations, Slack messages, emails, or even social media platform comment sections. Now, as you can see, the suggested prompt here of extracting the main context is something that's useful right away. Next, I want to show you the custom actions within Highlight. These act sort of like conversation starters within GPTs, if you're familiar with those. Except these can be used at any time and you can make them way more advanced. There's a lot of presets, but you can also create your own ones if you want. They're shared in this public marketplace from which you can download these various shortcuts. That's what they're called. Here you can do things like live fact checking or install the Homework Helper here to help you out with tasks that might be on your screen right now with this custom prompt. So if I go back to my Wikipedia article and I'm on Homework Helper, it will act as a custom AI tutor because it knows that this is a part of my homework and it can help without me having to prompt it manually or me having to upload screenshots to it. It sees what I do, right? And that's not even everything that Highlight offers. It has audio transcription features that just run in the background of your meetings. You can connect it to your Google Calendar, create notion pages with the click of a button and more. And all of this is super secure and private by design. And none of this data goes to Highlight and they do not train their models on it. If you want more info about this, you can check out their website. So if you want to try this super powered version of ChatGPT or Claude, download Highlight and try it today for yourself. It's completely free and you can try it with the link at the top of the description. So at this point I want you to just go out there and learn about the world, learn new skills, explore your curiosity. Leave a comment below on what you will be learning about with this technique. And that's pretty much all I got for today. Best of luck and most importantly, always follow your curiosity. It has never been easier to do that than today.