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Nine guides so far, each tested in a real AI tool before it went up. More are on the way. Browse by topic on the home page.
- Home
How to use AI to design or decorate a room
Your living room has a couch facing a wall and a rug that's been "temporary" for four years. Every furniture website wants you to fall in love with a $2,400 sofa.
- Parenting
How to use AI to help your kid with homework (without doing it for them)
It's 8:30 p.m. Your fifth grader is stuck on a fractions worksheet, and the method on the page looks nothing like the one you learned. You'd like to help without either of you crying, and without the AI quietly doing the whole thing.
- Small business
How to use AI to make a flyer
The library bake sale is Saturday. Someone said "you're good with computers, can you make the flyer?" and now you are, apparently, the design department. You have the details on a sticky note and no idea what goes in big letters.
- Money
How to use AI to make a monthly budget
It's the 28th, and your checking account looks like it went on vacation without you. You know roughly what comes in. Where it goes is more of a mystery, the kind with a lot of takeout receipts.
- Travel
How to use AI to plan a road trip
You have five days off, a car with decent tires, and a plan that reads "drive somewhere nice." Your sister wants mountains. Your kids want a pool. You would like to not drive 9 hours in one day.
- Cooking
How to use AI to plan a week of dinners on a budget
It's Sunday evening. You have $75, a fridge that contains half an onion and some optimism, and five people who will each ask "what's for dinner?" every night this week. You need a plan and a shopping list.
- Health questions
How to use AI to understand a confusing medical bill
The bill arrived. It has a total that made you sit down, a column of five-digit codes, and an abbreviation that might be "ADJ" or might be a typo. You want to know what you're paying for and whether it's right.
- Everyday writing
How to use AI to write a hard email
You need to tell your manager the report will be late. Or tell the school you can't run the bake sale again. Or answer the email that's been sitting in your inbox for 9 days, quietly judging you. You've written the first line four times and deleted it four times.
- Work
How to use AI to write a resume
Your last resume was saved on a computer that made a noise when it started up. Since then you've changed jobs twice, learned three new systems, and trained half the new hires. None of it is written down anywhere.