Boost Your Productivity with ChatGPT — The Ultimate Tool for Efficiency

Syubban Fakhriya
8 min readApr 9, 2023

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From https://tekno.kompas.com/read/2023/02/20/18010087/cara-mudah-menggunakan-chatgpt-openai-di-hp-dan-laptop?page=all

If you’re seeking to increase your productivity and streamline your workflow, ChatGPT is the ultimate solution. This advanced AI tool is designed to help you stay organized, manage your tasks and optimize your time. Whether you need assistance scheduling meetings, prioritizing assignments, or generating new ideas, ChatGPT has got you covered. Its intuitive interface and powerful functionality make it the perfect tool for individuals seeking to maximize productivity and achieve their goals.

As someone who has experienced the benefits of ChatGPT firsthand, I can confidently attest to its revolutionary nature and ability to improve work performance. In this article, I will share my insights and demonstrate how ChatGPT can significantly enhance your efficiency, streamline your workflows, and enable you to achieve more in less time. With ChatGPT, you can take control of your productivity and work smarter, not harder.

What is ChatGPT?

According to the Wall Street Journal (link), ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence that can interact in a conversational way on various topics, or all topics. The dialogue format makes it possible to answer follow-up questions, admit mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests (based on the official website).

ChatGPT’s model is trained on a compilation of articles, images, websites, and real-time conversations by human contractors (if you are interested in the technical aspect of GPT you can read the here link). ChatGPT is one of the products that was developed by a company named OpenAI, which is led by Sam Altman (if you are interested in OpenAI history, follow this link).

Some ChatGPT usage images from @openaicommunity

How to access it?

ChatGPT is free during the research preview (it came with a premium subscription recently), here is the step by step to access it.

(1) Visit chat.openai.com then press the login button (there is no need to do this if you already logged in).

First-time page

(2) For first-time users, you need to create an account by clicking the sign-up button. You will be required to provide an email address for verification purposes, or you can use an OAuth provider like Google or Microsoft.

Authentication page

(3) After completing the above process, you will be redirected to a page like below.

ChatGPT homepage

(4) Happy prompting!

Maximize ChatGPT Usage to Boost Productivity

Here, I will provide you with a few examples of how ChatGPT can be utilized in various roles or tasks. ChatGPT can be a powerful tool in several contexts.

Jobseeker (I hope anyone who still finding a job, will get the best job for them)

Practicing Interview

Preparing for a job interview can be daunting, but ChatGPT can help by simulating an interviewer and providing potential questions that you may encounter during a real interview. By asking ChatGPT to perform as an interviewer, you can practice your responses and feel more confident going into the actual interview. This can ultimately help you stand out as a candidate and increase your chances of being hired.

Sample of general interview questions

When practicing for a job interview with ChatGPT, you can also generate sample generic answers to common interview questions. By inputting prompts and criteria for your desired response, ChatGPT can generate a personalized and well-crafted answer that can be used as a reference during the interview. This can help you feel more prepared and confident, ultimately improving your chances of succeeding in the interview process.

Sample of the general interview answer

Writing and Fixing Resume

When applying for a job, it is important to submit an ATS-friendly resume that adheres to specific guidelines for formatting and content. These guidelines include how to write about your experiences, background, and skills. Fortunately, ChatGPT can be used to assist in writing an effective resume that meets these requirements. By providing prompts and input, ChatGPT can generate a personalized and ATS-friendly resume that highlights your qualifications and improves your chances of landing an interview.

Sample ATS-friendly working experience

Create Email Template

By simply asking ChatGPT, you can easily generate a follow-up email after an interview. This can save you time and effort in crafting an effective follow-up message, allowing you to focus on other important aspects of the interview process.

Sample email for following up on interview result

If you’re applying for a position and need help crafting a compelling email, you can easily provide some context about the job and the company to ChatGPT. It can then generate a personalized email for you to send, which can highlight your qualifications and express your interest in the position, thereby increasing your chances of landing an interview.

Sample email for applying for a position

Programmer

As a programmer, I often rely on ChatGPT to generate unit tests for my code, as well as to fix bugs, improve performance, and even explain certain pieces of code (with my intervention to verify the results). With ChatGPT, I can streamline my coding process and improve the efficiency and quality of my work.

Generate Unit Test

Unit tests are needed to ensure the quality of program and the error prevention in the future, it was money-saving. We can utilize the ChatGPT to write code for us although the generated unit test sometimes does not work as is; it requires programmer intervention but it was really worth building a basic understanding if you are not sure what should be tested.

Writing unit tests

Explain Code

Here is an example of how we can ask ChatGPT to explain a piece of code that we do not understand. Sometimes when we read the code in documentation, tutorial, or other people's code in the same project it was confusing (it will be worse when the codebase is messy). So the ChatGPT will come to help.

Explaining code

Generate Code Skeleton

Just by providing a few prompts, ChatGPT can generate the code I need, incorporating the technologies, frameworks, and version preferences I’ve selected. This not only saves me a significant amount of time for each project but also helps me to maintain organized and up-to-date documentation.

Code skeleton

Study Assistant

If you want to provide a summary of an article or journal, it’s important to not only copy its title but also include relevant parts of its content. By doing so, you can ensure that your summary accurately reflects the key points and arguments presented in the original text.

Summarizing things

Writing Quiz

We can ask ChatGPT to generate questions (and answers) about a book or any source that we have just completed studying, in order to test our understanding.

Write quiz to deepen knowledge

Explaining Things

Frequently, terms, topics, or other related concepts found in textbooks or articles can be difficult and complex to understand. However, with ChatGPT, it is possible to have these topics explained in a simplified manner, similar to how you would explain it to a 5-year-old or someone who is new to the subject. This feature can be especially helpful for those who are struggling to grasp a certain concept or looking for a quick and easy way to understand it.

Explain topic

Daily Assistant

Workout Schedule

If you’re keen to start working out but feeling overwhelmed and unsure of where to begin, ChatGPT can help simplify the process. With its expertise in creating personalized workout schedules, ChatGPT can design a program that is tailored to your specific fitness goals and needs. So instead of feeling lost and unsure about your workout routine, let ChatGPT take the lead and guide you toward a healthier, fitter you.

Workout Schedule

Cook Assistant

If you’re feeling indecisive about what dishes to prepare for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, and unsure of where to find the right recipes, ChatGPT can come to the rescue. By simply prompting ChatGPT, you can get access to a wide range of recipe options for each mealtime, all customized to suit your dietary preferences and restrictions.

Cook Assistant

Gardening Tips

If you enjoy spending your free time tending to your garden, ChatGPT can be an excellent resource to help you with everything from preparing your garden to nurturing your plants. With its vast knowledge of gardening techniques, ChatGPT can provide valuable advice on everything from choosing the right plants for your climate to creating a watering schedule that meets your garden’s needs.

Gardening Tips

Breakdown Vehicle

It’s difficult to imagine the unfortunate scenarios that can occur in our daily lives, such as experiencing a vehicle breakdown in the middle of a busy street. However, with the help of ChatGPT, we can prepare ourselves for such situations and know exactly what steps to take.

What should we do when our car a breakdown

Calculate or Solve Problem

As a student or teacher, you may encounter moments where you struggle to solve a problem or find yourself short on time when preparing for a test or lecture. This is where ChatGPT can come in handy. ChatGPT can help you quickly and easily find the answers you need for study purposes (use it wisely).

Solving physics problem

And much more things that you can unleash by prompting your creativity in chatGPT

Will AI replace humans?

While it is not currently possible, in the future, humans who use AI may replace some human jobs as AI continues to transform industries. Therefore, it is important to use AI wisely. Mastering prompts requires a simple and effective language, particularly English.

FYI I write this article with little help from ChatGPT too ✌️ (sorry for my English because I think the AI is smart enough to understand my prompt).

Some content writing is assisted by AI

Here is an interesting story written by medium about AI intervention in their content writing :

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Syubban Fakhriya

Software developer, empower IT for practical use, self-development enthusiast