There are currently over 500 ChatGPT plugins, and that’s not even counting the ones that will come out in the coming weeks (I’m convinced). That’s too many. But what we need today are the best plugins that truly help us with various daily tasks and make our lives easier
That’s why I have spent a few hours selecting the best 07 ChatGPT plugins that you definitely can’t miss, and I’m not just going to talk about them, but we’re going to see how we can use them in a practical and quick way. I’m sure that after reading this story, you will have insanely powerful knowledge with the help of ChatGPT plugins.
Before we start looking at each plugin in detail, we’re going to activate the Plugins section (if you already have it activated, you can skip this part) and get it ready to simply install the Plugins
Step 1: Go to “Settings & Beta”
Step 2: Turn On “Plugins”
Next, we go to the Beta features section and turn on the Plugins option to enable it in ChatGPT
Step 3: Go to “GPT-4”
Now what we will do is select the Plugins option
Step 4: Go to “Plugin Store”
We are ready now, so every time we want to install a new plugin, we will just go to the Plugin Store option and look for it
Now let’s get started…
1. ScholarAI
This plugin is designed to give us access to over 40M articles and academic research, so we can directly obtain scientific information, technical projects, engineering, humanities, and social sciences.
Step 1: Install Plugin
Step 2: Generate Prompt
Here you can search for a topic that you’re interested in reviewing. What’s interesting is that within the database of this plugin, we have articles up to 2023, so we can access recently published articles
Prompt: Can you give me the top [4] articles on [the impact of artificial intelligence today]? The ranges of articles [2022 and 2023]
Results
What ChatGPT generates for us is the title of the article, which also has a direct link that leads us to the website where we can find it. Additionally, we can download the article as a PDF file
2. WebPilot
This open-source “Copilot for Web” allows us to have free-form conversations with web pages. This plugin allows us to analyze (by simply providing the web link) according to the prompt we build, and it will perform the search on various internet sites
Step 1: Install Plugin
Step 2: Generate Prompt
For this example, we’ll take the web link generated from the ScholarAI plugin (check the 1st plugin of this story)
I’ll leave the link here for practical purposes:
Now we are going to include it within our prompt
Prompt: what area the [5] core interesting true statements this research paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/11/13/3910
Results
Bonus!
Among the many tests I was performing with the WebPilot plugin, I was surprised to find that I can also perform Web Scraping
i ) Generate Prompt
For this example, we’ll conduct a search for the top 10 Kindle Books in the Amazon store, and it also provides information such as their rating and price
I’ll share the direct link:
What we are going to do is build a prompt where we will include the link to the web page
Prompt:
You are an employee of [Amazon]
Get information about the top [10] ranked [books] on each of the following sites.# Sites to get information
①:https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Kindle+Books&crid=116GXO8MVQ57C&sprefix=kindle+books%2Caps%2C174&ref=nb_sb_noss_2# Output Summarize the [titles], [ratings] and [amounts] in a table format
Results
And we’ve done it!
If you’re interested in Web Scraping using ChatGPT, I recommend you read a story that I wrote about it.
3. Prompt Perfect
This plugin will provide us an alternative when constructing our next prompt, if we’re lacking inspiration or simply want something more elaborate. It also generates the structure of the topic with points that we might want to consider
Step 1: Install Plugin
Step 2: Generate Prompt
Here, it’s important to note that we must write the word ‘perfect’ each time we use this plugin and want to generate a more elaborate prompt
Prompt: Perfect Write a [Medium Stories] about the top [chatgpt plugins] in [our day to day]
Results
It could definitely help you with the next story you write on Medium
4. Stories
With this plugin, we can create fun stories, and as an added bonus, it will also generate illustrations that are related, all in a matter of minutes
Step 1: Install Plugin
Step 2: Generate Prompt
Here we can use our imagination, and Stories will embody it in a tale (including the title)
Prompt: Create a story about [a robot boy who dreams of becoming a human]
Results
We can see that it has generated the complete story and even the title itself. To view our generated story, we enter the Direct URL
And the results are amazing. We can see that we can also edit parts of the story and the illustrations. Plus, it gives us the opportunity to add audio and publish it on Amazon
5. PlayListAI
This plugin can save you many hours of searching for songs to generate a playlist within Spotify. It also works like a second musical brain, as it can associate various songs based on a single song you have in mind
Step 1: Install Plugin
Here it will make a connection to your Spotify account
Step 2: Generate Prompt
I’m going to ask ChatGPT to generate a list of 15 songs from just one song
Prompt: Based of the song [Guns n’ Roses Welcome to The Jungle], What are [15] othes songs that would pair well in playlist
Results
Here it has generated the 15 songs, and it asks us if we want to convert it into a playlist (automatically) on Spotify. You just have to say yes
And the results are great; now I can generate multiple playlists in a matter of seconds
6. Coupert
For those of us looking for the best deals, this plugin helps us find coupons to apply discounts to various products or services
Step 1: Install Plugin
Step 2: Generate Prompt
Now I’m going to look for deals or discount coupons on GoDaddy. However, we can use it for any product or service for which we need a discount
Prompt: Find me a coupon for [godaddy]
Results
Now all that’s left is to go to the generated direct links and apply each of the coupons
7. World News
Many times we spend time searching for different news on the web, and that could take up many minutes of searching. With the World News plugin, it will only take us a few seconds, as it will generate a summary of the most recent, relevant news and where we can find them through direct links
Step 1: Install Plugin
Step 2: Generate Prompt
We can ask for news on a topic of our interest
Prompt: Can you give me a list of [AI] news that happened the last [2 days],and direct links to each of them
Results
Summary
- The 07 ChatGPT plugins we have seen definitely represent significant time savings in various daily tasks
- ChatGPT’s responses are good; however, I always recommend reviewing them. Remember, it’s an AI, and it is prone to making mistakes at some point
I hope you liked this story, and I look forward to seeing you next time. A hug and blessings!
