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📣 shreythecray

How are people using ChatGPT to increase productivity in personal life?


I've heard about financial planning and health tracking, but unsure where to start.


  👤 laze00 Accepted Answer ✓
I’ve seen myself progress through a few “levels” here.

Level 0: tinker with the novelty of the tech but don’t extract real value. This was week 1 and i was mostly just having it create silly stories to make my kids laugh.

Level 1: use LLMs as a replacement for searching the internet. This is where most people get and stay imo.

Level 2: conversations with LLMs that begin to border on collaboration. Eg you ask follow ups.

Level 3: full collaboration. This is when you start to get meaningful value imo. Discuss ideas with the LLM, challenge it, have it challenge you. You can do this anything. On a weekly basis I’m collaborating on plans for date night with my wife, schedules to bake bread with daughter, and anything else going on in my life. I find the answers with the LLM, same way you’d collaborate with a human.

Level 3.5/4: i now regularly run deep research searches. For example I’m going out with friends in a few weeks and want to have a fun night. I’m passively running searches and iterating now despite no time crunch. Basically I’m fully delegating research tasks, giving directions on next steps as needed, and i would say this saves me hours per week.


👤 moomoo11
Asking whatever questions pop into my mind and it gives me a nice overview of it.

Today I was on the bus and was curious about how the many moons of other planets affect those planets..

Basically take “stoner thoughts” and talk to it lol


👤 paulcole
I’ve essentially stopped using Google in favor of ChatGPT and Perplexity. It’s just excellent for answering simple questions without me having to click or search on some random webpage.

👤 sloaken
Not rocket science, but ...

I used ChatGPT to adjust what exercises I am doing. I asked what exercises impacted what muscles (primary and secondary), put it in a spreadsheet, so I could visualize the overlap. Then asked what muscle groups am I not addressing. Finally what exercises would address those neglected muscles.

End result is my workouts are more productive.


👤 ruairidhwm
I'm moving house and it's great for feeding in floor plans and coming up with ideas. Like having an interior designer. Not always accurate but it's enough to get me going.

👤 methusala8
Diving deeper into exercise posture correction and journalling/motivation.

👤 lysace
(Use Gemini 2.5 pro in Google AI Studio instead. 25 free requests per day using up to 1M tokens each. I honestly keep being amazed about what it's capable of.)