There is no doubt, ChatGPT has woven itself into our daily lives, covering a wide range of activities. I personally use it for three primary reasons:

1. Researching a given topic
2. Interpreting my output
3. Generating images/clipart for presentations etc.

If I am exploring a topic, I will go back and forth, learning or going deeper—as you should. While ChatGPT can keep a history of every interaction, it’s not really in a convenient format for me. Instead, I have found myself hitting the COPY action (which copies the previous answer in Markdown) and then taking that and saving it in Obsidian—which is a wonderful free Markdown editor environment.

Obsidian arranges content in what they call a vault – which is nothing more than a folder on your file system (I choose a folder inside Dropbox so everything is backed up and automatically available to my other devices).

Then you can create folders of interest; for me, I have things like Java and AWS, and when ChatGPT spits out an answer I would like to refer back to at a later date, I hit copy and toss it into Obsidian, retaining all the formatting that ChatGPT outputted.

This little workflow has proven to be invaluable, letting me arrange my thoughts and keep my knowledge improving.

Bonus Tip – Interpreting output

I try not to let ChatGPT do a lot of composition for me, as I want to retain my own voice and tone. Now that said, I will take what I have written and ask it to fix any grammar or spelling mistakes, which is fine; nothing outlandish there.

What I do, though, is I will ask ChatGPT to assume a given persona and ask it to be that person, being as detailed as possible, and then feed it what I have just written, asking if there is anything I need to explain and what that person takes away from my output.

Huge help for me getting the tone right out of the gate.

Hope this helps get a little more out of ChatGPT.