AI Productivity Tip - Save a Ton of Time!

How to use AI to format text in Beehiiv

I almost don't even want to share this ChatGPT tip. 🀫

This productivity tip will save you so much time, I feel like I should be charging for it. πŸ’Έ

The Problem with AI Written Articles 😑

First of all, I absolutely HATE AI written articles. I never write them myself, and I can always tell when other people use AI to write. 😀

But…

That doesn't mean you can't use AI to help save you time writing. πŸ•’

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Secret tip: I’m writing this entire article myself - but Chat-GPT (GPT-4o) is doing all of the time consuming formatting for me - including putting in the emojis! πŸ˜† 

The Pain of Formatting πŸ˜–

The part I hate most about writing Beehiiv emails like this one (or any articles online) is all the formatting that needs to be done.

  • H1 tags

  • Emojis

  • Bold

  • Italics

  • Affiliate linking

  • Linking to my website

  • Bla bla bla

The formatting takes a ton of time, and it's the kind of mindless work that can take you out of a flow state. Even if I leave it to the end, I hate it so much that it almost makes me not want to write in the first place. 😩

The Solution: ChatGPT's Memory Feature πŸ’‘

So what do I do now? πŸ€”

I use ChatGPT's memory feature. πŸ€–

  1. Upload Affiliate Links: I uploaded all of my affiliate links into a ChatGPT conversation and told it to save them in memory. πŸ”—

  2. Emoji Preferences: I shared the type of emojis I like in my articles. 😍

  3. Newsletter Sign-Up: I shared that I want a "sign up to my newsletter" somewhere in the articleβ€Šβ€”β€Šwith a link to it. πŸ“§ (I use for Medium articles)

  4. Social Media Links: I shared the collection of social media links I want at the end of my articles. 🌐 (I use for Medium articles)

  5. Affiliate Hyperlinking: I told ChatGPT to write a sentence about why I love using Beehiiv, hyperlinking the word "Beehiiv" with my affiliate link. πŸ“¨

Beehiiv has been an amazing email newsletter platform for me personally. So I've been recommending it in many articles because I know from firsthand experience it works well and it is worth at least signing up to the free plan for content creators of any kind. πŸ’ͺ

I told ChatGPT to save all of that info in memory.

The Test πŸ“

Then came the test…

I cut and pasted an entire article (which I personally wrote 100%) into ChatGPTβ€Šβ€”β€Šwith zero formatting or anything.

I said, "I want you to format this article, without adding anything new of your own. Just make my writing look great and flow. Use all the information I told you to use in your memory."

And Boom. πŸ’₯

It was essentially perfect! 🎯

I cut and pasted everything from ChatGPT right back into Beehiiv, did a quick read-over to make sure everything was fine, and then I clicked "submit". πŸš€

Even if you aren't writing on Beehiiv, you can use the same concept for formatting whatever you need to write on any sort of a regular basis. πŸ“‘

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