Havent finished the episode but wanted to drop some quick usecases you might enjoy before I go make dinner.
First, add a shortcut to voice mode in the iPhone Control Centre (swipe down on the top right of your iphone, then hit the little + in the top left. You can do the same for super whisperer!
Second, Google AI Studio is a bit of a hidden gem for me, using it to summarise long-form videos, you know those 45 minute ones which always end up languishing in your 'watch later' on youtube, now I can get the gist and decide if its worth watching in about 2 minutes.
Also, you have to try out the stream mode in Google's AI studio, it can see your screen (or webcam but havent tried that yet!) and give you feedback on what its seeing, I was using it to help me workshop some copy for a website Im building using Bolt AI.
Third, I'm a big fan of Granola for note-taking because it doesn't need to join calls and the UX for summaries and the chat bot to ask questions for the call is really good.
But even you wanna punch it up a notch, pair those transcripts with Google NotebookLM to collect transcripts from multiple calls, emails, etc for like a project, and you'll have a personal AI for everything that's been discussed for that project.
Also, if you want some subscriptions to useful AI tools for cheap, Lenny's newsletter has a great offer if you subscribe for a year!
Looking forward to finishing the episode later, and hearing more about how you're starting to adopt AI!
You'll dig it! I notice that most folks use it to grab a key and go, but I agree with David - it's spiffy. And yes, NotebookLM is a fantastic librarian-science master piece.
Excellent to hear of your adventure and discoveries (both you & Alen). Very inspiring.
I am always amazed that folks are so willing to pay for toolsets that are freely available through any basic Google Profile (transcriptions, email assistance, etc), but I realize that I am biased and I'm also excited to see all the variations out there.
Can you explain more what you mean with the basic Google Profile? My company has all the Google Workspace features and as far as I can see, none of them could even come close to what we were talking about. But happy to be very wrong and get it for free!
I'd need to relisten, and I did listen to the entire cast ;) to get a "list" but, from what I recall - the meeting minders...
+ Transcriptions and meeting tasks are backed into Google Calendar & Meets (+video and captions) and the improvements with the latest 2.5 Gemini deployment are significantly improved - revisit as the previous methods were indeed sort of "meh".
+ For workflows, I don't think anything is as badass as N8n - but Vertex AI (in GCP and accessible via a Workspace account) has a visual builder and of course the Collabs for python (which again, the new Gemini is solid for small task efforts for .py = tell it what you want the script to do and where you want to use it and 'why' and then try & adjust).
+ For personal productivity, I just pushed an article on how to create Gemini Gems (and I'm NOT trying to self-promote, because I don't) for personal productivity tools and can be integrated with the Workspace suite of apps. -- point is play with Gems...
-- I highly recommend going through the "Gemini" enhancements to workspace fully, it's not all 'out-of-the-box' or plug'n'play -- but free usually has the cost of time and as of this latest release (ala Google i/o) - cost of time has been ridiculously reduced.
I'm sure that there are commercial products out there that are completely special (such as N8n) and the 'free' stuff doesn't cover -- especially as Google is primarily focused on Utilitarian and not comfort...
Anyrate - like all things - unique use-cases don't always need unique solutions -- and as the commercial slogan declares: Explore your World.
Havent finished the episode but wanted to drop some quick usecases you might enjoy before I go make dinner.
First, add a shortcut to voice mode in the iPhone Control Centre (swipe down on the top right of your iphone, then hit the little + in the top left. You can do the same for super whisperer!
Second, Google AI Studio is a bit of a hidden gem for me, using it to summarise long-form videos, you know those 45 minute ones which always end up languishing in your 'watch later' on youtube, now I can get the gist and decide if its worth watching in about 2 minutes.
Also, you have to try out the stream mode in Google's AI studio, it can see your screen (or webcam but havent tried that yet!) and give you feedback on what its seeing, I was using it to help me workshop some copy for a website Im building using Bolt AI.
Third, I'm a big fan of Granola for note-taking because it doesn't need to join calls and the UX for summaries and the chat bot to ask questions for the call is really good.
But even you wanna punch it up a notch, pair those transcripts with Google NotebookLM to collect transcripts from multiple calls, emails, etc for like a project, and you'll have a personal AI for everything that's been discussed for that project.
Also, if you want some subscriptions to useful AI tools for cheap, Lenny's newsletter has a great offer if you subscribe for a year!
Looking forward to finishing the episode later, and hearing more about how you're starting to adopt AI!
I havent touched AI studio!!
You'll dig it! I notice that most folks use it to grab a key and go, but I agree with David - it's spiffy. And yes, NotebookLM is a fantastic librarian-science master piece.
Excellent to hear of your adventure and discoveries (both you & Alen). Very inspiring.
I am always amazed that folks are so willing to pay for toolsets that are freely available through any basic Google Profile (transcriptions, email assistance, etc), but I realize that I am biased and I'm also excited to see all the variations out there.
Can you explain more what you mean with the basic Google Profile? My company has all the Google Workspace features and as far as I can see, none of them could even come close to what we were talking about. But happy to be very wrong and get it for free!
I'd need to relisten, and I did listen to the entire cast ;) to get a "list" but, from what I recall - the meeting minders...
+ Transcriptions and meeting tasks are backed into Google Calendar & Meets (+video and captions) and the improvements with the latest 2.5 Gemini deployment are significantly improved - revisit as the previous methods were indeed sort of "meh".
+ For workflows, I don't think anything is as badass as N8n - but Vertex AI (in GCP and accessible via a Workspace account) has a visual builder and of course the Collabs for python (which again, the new Gemini is solid for small task efforts for .py = tell it what you want the script to do and where you want to use it and 'why' and then try & adjust).
+ For personal productivity, I just pushed an article on how to create Gemini Gems (and I'm NOT trying to self-promote, because I don't) for personal productivity tools and can be integrated with the Workspace suite of apps. -- point is play with Gems...
-- I highly recommend going through the "Gemini" enhancements to workspace fully, it's not all 'out-of-the-box' or plug'n'play -- but free usually has the cost of time and as of this latest release (ala Google i/o) - cost of time has been ridiculously reduced.
I'm sure that there are commercial products out there that are completely special (such as N8n) and the 'free' stuff doesn't cover -- especially as Google is primarily focused on Utilitarian and not comfort...
Anyrate - like all things - unique use-cases don't always need unique solutions -- and as the commercial slogan declares: Explore your World.
Thank youuuuuu for the where to start in all this.
thank YOU!