How I use ChatGPT to help me work
ChatGPT can write and edit things for you, convert data, and generate code. Here are some prompts to try in your work life.
Summary: ChatGPT can help you work by brainstorming ideas, writing video scripts, refining or expanding text, converting numbers, providing facts on a topic, writing spreadsheet formulas, distilling meeting notes into minutes and actions, reviewing text for errors, turn text into a presentation script, and writing code / checking for bugs.
There are four categories of things I do the most with ChatGPT:
Check out the other posts for tips on using ChatGPT at home, to learn, to have fun, and how to personalise the experience, now this one's about work...
Help me work
Here's the video version (7min):
Here are ten prompt ideas to try (prompt text in bold), and how they turned out in 2023, then repeated in 2026.
Blog post ideas, like "blog post ideas for a self-improvement blog with a focus on digital life"
April 2023
January 2026
Write something for me, like "YouTube video script for a 1min video about how to use ChatGPT to save time at work"
April 2023
January 2026
Refine text, like by summarising, or expanding it, like "summarise this text for me: [and paste your text]"
![ChatGPT prompt "summarise this text for me: [and paste your text]" and its response](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/695328a4d9ebd61506c5c579/1767253732804-O5M3ZY3HEFNUXWI1DBZF/ChatGPT-summarise-text-784x1024.png)
April 2023
![ChatGPT prompt "summarise this text for me: [and paste your text]" and its response](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/695328a4d9ebd61506c5c579/e8ea4d1e-1ad0-4189-9722-68120787dfe6/ChatGPT-summarise-text-2026.png)
January 2026
![ChatGPT prompt "change these negative values into positive values: [and paste your numbers]" and its response](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/695328a4d9ebd61506c5c579/1767253724103-KCSTU0KN8YV2QHYM6F3S/ChatGPT-Convert-negative-values-positive.png)
April 2023
Convert a dataset, like "change these negative values into positive values: [and paste your numbers]"
Give me facts I can use in a presentation, like "give me facts about women in the workforce and the gender pay gap in Australia" (but remember to fact-check these)
April 2023
January 2026
April 2023
Write Excel formulas, like "Can you help me write a formula to find the average of a range of cells in Excel?"
![ChatGPT prompt "I'll paste my meeting transcript below, please turn this into minutes and actions: [and paste your text]" and its response](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/695328a4d9ebd61506c5c579/1767253725814-3J5UP5XNBBNTIHHV3HO9/ChatGPT-Project-WIP-meeting-transcript-to-minutes-and-actions-331x1024.png)
April 2023
Convert a meeting transcript into minutes and actions, like "I'll paste my meeting transcript below, please turn this into minutes and actions: [and paste your text]"
Review text for grammatical errors, like "review and correct any errors below: [and paste your text]"
![ChatGPT prompt "review and correct any errors below: [and paste your text]" and its response](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/695328a4d9ebd61506c5c579/1767253729994-S890B39UWV75V62KM1Z9/ChatGPT-review-for-errors.png)
April 2023
![ChatGPT prompt "review and correct any errors below: [and paste your text]" and its response](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/695328a4d9ebd61506c5c579/fa6d4f19-40d2-4e44-975d-9ddcd4ed3317/ChatGPT-review-for-errors-2026.png)
January 2026
Turn text into a script for a presentation with an outline and key talking points, "convert text below into a presentation with an outline and key talking points: [and paste your text]” (I used this blog post as the text.)
![ChatGPT prompt "convert text below into a presentation with an outline and key talking points: [and paste your text]” and its response](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/695328a4d9ebd61506c5c579/1767253729007-T8NXZELMEUVBIHRPL3KV/ChatGPT-presentation-outline-and-talking-points-562x1024.png)
April 2023
![ChatGPT prompt "convert text below into a presentation with an outline and key talking points: [and paste your text]” and its response](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/695328a4d9ebd61506c5c579/cf3fe43a-a63d-4352-ba06-1115dc303b61/ChatGPT-presentation-outline-and-talking-points-2026.png)
January 2026
April 2023
Write code and identify bugs, like "Write a program that generates a random list of numbers and sorts them in ascending order"
How have you been using ChatGPT to help with your work? Have I missed any cool tricks? 👀
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