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The Student Workflow
Outlining essays, reviewing lecture notes, and active studying.
1
Upload slides to NotebookLM
Dump all PDF slides from the semester into Google's NotebookLM to create a single
brain trust.
2
Generate Flashcards
Ask: "Generate 20 challenging flashcards based on the key concepts in these
slides."
3
Chat with Claude for Outlining
Paste your essay prompt and ask Claude to debate three potential thesis statements
with you.
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The Professional
Drafting delicate emails, summarising meetings, and unblocking tasks.
1
The "Tone Check" Prompt
Draft a difficult email yourself. Ask ChatGPT: "Make this sound more professional,
less defensive."
2
Meeting Synthesis
Take rough meeting notes and ask AI to "Format these notes into key decisions and
next steps with owners."
3
First-Draft Generation
Need a project brief? Provide a bulleted list to Microsoft Copilot to spin up the
skeleton instantly.
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The Developer
Understanding legacy code, debugging tracebacks, and writing tests.
1
Switch to Cursor
Open the project in Cursor. Highlight a confusing function and use Cmd+K: "Explain
what this does."
2
Rubber Duck Debugging
Paste a stack trace into Claude and say, "I'm getting this error when starting the
server. Where should I look?"
3
Test Generation
Write your business logic first, then ask AI to "Generate comprehensive unit tests
guarding against edge cases."