The Ultimate Guide to Using Merlin AI

Megh Mehta
4 min readApr 6, 2024

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Source: Merlin Website

We all have used ChatGPT for various purposes, but nowadays it seems a bit annoying to use. You open a browser, type your prompts, and get the answer. This has simplified the process a lot but has become tedious as humans keep getting lazy.

A Chrome Extension called Merlin solves that problem for you. Here’s a complete guide on how to make Merlin your personal assistant.

Table of Contents:

  1. YouTube Summarizer

2. Merlin on Twitter

3. Merlin on Google

4. Merlin on Gmail

5. Merlin on LinkedIn

6. Talk to PDFs

YouTube Summarizer

People want to consume the knowledge of huge hour-long podcasts in minutes, Merlin can help.

Open a podcast (or any other YouTube video)

Click on Summarize and you’re done. Merlin summarized this 4-hour podcast in merely 5 seconds. You can get key points from the entire podcast with timestamps and even the transcriptions of the whole video 🤯.

This can save huge amounts of time and make complex content consumable for a larger audience.

Content creators can benefit a lot from this feature enabling them to get key insights from large YouTube videos. If you’re a content creator, then you can get a good competitor analysis of fellow YouTubers.

Sticking to YouTube, Merlin can still do more.

Create exceptional comments without even watching the entire video. This can help you get noticed by the creator after they see such useful comments.

This is how you can even create your own blogs with the help of Merlin. It will give you an entire blog with a title, keywords, etc. The word count and the style of writing can easily be tweaked. Similarly, you can create tweaks just like this:

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Merlin on Twitter

Coming to Twitter, if you’re someone looking to grow on the platform, Merlin could help. Merlin empowers you to type in the context of your tweet and choose a tone and Merlin will do the rest for you.

Even though writing such tweets doesn't take long, Merlin’s tweets are SEO-based, enabling a better reach for all the tweets.

Merlin On Google

Instead of Google, people are now shifting to AI models like Perplexity to get factual news. People get frustrated searching for factual news on Google like this

On the other hand, when you have Merlin installed, you get to the point of answers, just beside the search results. You can even ask follow-up questions right there.

Instead of a Google search, you can press ctrl + M or cmd + M, to open up Merlin anywhere in the Chrome browser and ask questions.

Merlin on GMail

Merlin will lay around your GMail. You can use it to reply to emails and draft personalized emails. These personalized emails can even be customized, like you can ask Merlin to “shorten it”, “make it more formal”, etc.

This is going to save you a lot of time while writing emails. These emails would be of the perfect length targeting the correct person/ organization with the perfect length and tonality. Merlin’s emails are claimed to be much more appealing hence very good for cold emails.

Merlin on LinkedIn

Same with LinkedIn -> Create an entire post, comment on posts, gain followers and engagements

Source: Merlin Website

Talk to PDFs

This could be one of the most game-changing things for you to buy Merlin Pro. Drag and drop any PDF, ask questions like “What data do you see”, “Create a summary for my boss”, etc.

Here’s an entire video guiding you to use the same.

More than that you get all these features for just $19/month (ChatGPT costs $20/month) for having Merlin always beside you as a personal assistant.

You can download Merlin from here

If you’ve stayed here use the code MERLIN20 for a discount😁

Link: https://www.getmerlin.in/pricing?ref=njdinzg

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Megh Mehta

Innovating SaaS products; Machine Learning enthusiast; Writing about AI tools