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Log your day by voice and wake up to a fully organized health tracker—completely free

I track my recovery daily—mood, energy, focus, activities, medications, and reflections—but typing everything out never lasted more than a few days. So I built a voice-first pipeline: I talk, and it automatically becomes a clean, organized Google Sheet. Step-by-step: 1. I built a free iPhone Shortcut that records my voice when I say, “Hey Siri, Log,” and sends it to the Gemini endpoint. 2. Gemini transcribes the audio and extracts structured details, including wake time; mood, energy, and focus scores; activities with categories and durations; medications; and reflections. 3. Everything is automatically organized in the appropriate place in a Google Sheet: a daily summary, activity log, metrics log, medications log, and clean, human-readable digest for each day. 4. I can say “yesterday” or “on Monday” to log something I forgot, and it files the entry under the correct date. 5. I connected the completed sheet to a separate AI chat scoped specifically to reflection, so I can ask questions such as how my exercise correlates with my mood or how my energy trends over the month. The best part is that the entire workflow runs on free tiers—Google Sheets, Apps Script, iPhone Shortcuts, and Gemini’s free API tier—so there’s zero cost to build or run it. The result is a daily tracker that takes seconds to update from anywhere, requires no typing, and turns my entries into a dataset I can actually learn from—all without writing a traditional app.

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#free#gemini#healthtech#logs#tracking

Automate Sales Follow-Up for Chocolate Factory Buyer Conversations

A chocolate factory client had a simple but expensive sales problem: good conversations with buyers sometimes went quiet because nobody followed up at the right time. Some opportunities were waiting on sample feedback, pricing, private-label details, minimum order quantities (MOQs), packaging, or distributor discussions. The opportunities were still active, but they were easy to lose track of. I built a follow-up workflow for the client in Awish. Step-by-step: 1. I opened the Awish chat and wrote: “Track our open sales opportunities from Microsoft Teams and Google Sheets. Every business day, review the latest customer conversation, sales stage, planned follow-up date, customer interest, and how long we’ve been out of touch. Find opportunities that need follow-up around samples, quotations, private label, MOQ, packaging, or distribution. Explain why each customer should be contacted, recommend the next action, and prepare a personalized Teams follow-up message based on the real conversation history. Never send anything without the salesperson’s approval. When the customer replies, close the old follow-up action and update the Sales Master record.” 2. Awish understood the request, planned the workflow, and selected Microsoft Teams and Google Sheets for the process. 3. I connected the client’s accounts, reviewed the plan, and approved the automation. 4. When a new customer conversation takes place in Teams, Awish updates the related sales record. 5. Every business day, it reviews open opportunities and finds deals that are overdue, at risk, or ready for the next follow-up. 6. For each opportunity, it explains why follow-up is needed and what the salesperson should do next. 7. Awish prepares a personalized Teams message using the actual conversation history, but waits for the salesperson’s approval before sending anything. 8. When the customer responds, the previous follow-up is closed and the opportunity status in Google Sheets is updated automatically. Now the sales team gets a prioritized daily list of who needs attention, why they need attention, and what the next message should be—without manually reviewing every old conversation. I want to keep building more workflows like this for real businesses. If you have a complex, repetitive process in your company that you think should be automated but you’re not sure how to build it, send it to me. I’d be happy to see if I can turn it into a working automation with Awish.

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#followupautomation#salesautomation
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Catalog 60+ Physical Items with Gemini and a Whiteboard Grid

My mother recently moved into a retirement suite, which meant downsizing her possessions. We ended up with dozens of physical items she no longer had space for, and we wanted her children and grandchildren to have an opportunity to sign up for the family items they loved before anything was donated. I needed a way to catalog everything quickly, share the information remotely, and verify that we weren't accidentally giving away items of significant value. I tested a physical-to-digital workflow using Gemini. Instead of putting the items in a pile or typing out endless lists, I drew a numbered grid on a large whiteboard, placed one item in each square, and took a few photos. Gemini identified the objects by grid position, categorized them, estimated their market values, and built a ready-to-use spreadsheet with a signup column. The physical staging took about 30 to 45 minutes, depending on how many items were on that particular board. The entire digital workload—including cataloging, valuing, formatting, and creating the spreadsheet—took under 10 minutes. The process turned an overwhelming chore into something manageable and produced an end product that was easy for everyone to use. Step-by-step: 1. I drew a simple grid on a whiteboard, numbered each box, and placed one item in each square before taking photos. 2. I uploaded the photos to Gemini and prompted it to identify every item by its board name and grid number. 3. I asked Gemini to classify each item into logical groups, such as Glassware, Ceramics, and Woodcraft, and provide quick, realistic resale-market valuations based on visual condition. 4. I asked Gemini to generate a downloadable Excel file formatted as a signup catalog, with columns for Item ID, Grid Number, Description, Category, Estimated Value, and a blank "Claimed / Signed Up By" column for family members to enter their names. 5. I uploaded the file to Google Drive, converted it to Google Sheets, and added a note at the top explaining how tie-breakers would work if two family members wanted the same item.

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#communitysignup#decluttering#downsizing#familyassetsharing#inventorycatalogue
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Automate Credit Card Expense Tracking in Google Sheets with Make

I built a workflow to track my monthly credit card expenses and keep them within my budget. Tracking my expenses is important to me because I want to reach my financial goals through consistency and healthy habits. However, entering each expense manually into Google Sheets was tiring and took several hours. I used Make to automate the process. The workflow reads the email from my bank every time I use my card, gathers the necessary information, converts it to JSON, and adds it to Google Sheets. It runs every six hours, every day, so I no longer need to spend my weekends reviewing expenses. Now I have more free time to build something else and only need a couple of minutes to review Google Sheets and make sure everything is working properly. Step-by-step: 1. I set up a workflow in Make to monitor emails from my bank whenever I use my credit card. 2. The workflow gathers the necessary expense information from each email. 3. It converts the information into JSON format. 4. It adds the expense data to Google Sheets. 5. The workflow runs every six hours, every day. 6. I spend a couple of minutes reviewing Google Sheets to make sure everything is working properly and that my expenses remain within budget.

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Repurpose One Video Transcript Into Four Posts With n8n

Content Repurposing System: one transcript into 4 platform-ready posts in 18 seconds. THE PROBLEM Every video cost me two hours turning it into posts for Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Skool and Instagram. The writing wasn't hard. The context switching was. Four platforms, four tones, the same idea rewritten four times. Built during the Skool x Hostinger n8n hackathon, Dec 2025. Still my daily workflow. STACK: n8n on a Hostinger VPS, OpenAI, Google Sheets. 13 nodes. HOW TO BUILD IT Manual Trigger. Swap for a Form or Drive trigger if you want it hands-off. Set node "Set Transcript", one string field: transcript. Leave a real sample transcript in the default value so anyone can hit execute and see output immediately. IF node "Check Transcript", two conditions with AND: transcript is not empty, and {{ $json.transcript.length }} > 50. False branch goes to a Stop and Error node. Four minutes of work. It's why I've never burned 5 API calls on a blank field. OpenAI node "Analyze Content", model gpt-5.4-mini, Simplify Output OFF: You are a content analyst. Analyze this video transcript and extract: Main topic/theme 3-5 key insights or takeaways Target audience Tone (educational, motivational, technical, etc.) Any specific examples, statistics, or stories mentioned Transcript: {{ $json.transcript }} Provide your analysis in a structured format. I don't send the transcript to four writers. I send it to one analyst first, and all four writers read that analysis. This lifted quality more than any prompt tweak: the posts share one reading of the material instead of each model guessing. The stronger model goes here for the same reason. Wrong analysis, four wrong posts. 5-8. Four generators, all gpt-4o-mini, Simplify Output OFF, all wired from Analyze Content's single output. Each pulls the same two inputs: Content Analysis: {{ $('Analyze Content').item.json.choices[0].message.content }} Original Transcript: {{ $('Set Transcript').item.json.transcript }} Then its own rules. Twitter (temp 0.8): hard hook, under 280 chars, one insight, no hashtags. LinkedIn (0.7): 150-250 words, 2-3 line paragraphs, ends on a question, no hashtags. Skool (0.8): 100-200 words, always a numbered list of actionable takeaways, ends by inviting replies. Instagram (0.8): 125-175 words, 5-8 hashtags, plus a detailed "Visual suggestion:" for a designer or image model. LinkedIn needed a tone block after v1 read like a press release: talk like you're with a colleague over coffee, use I and you, never "leverage", "in today's landscape", "fast-paced". Naming banned words works. "Write conversationally" does nothing. Merge node "Collect All Posts", 4 inputs, one generator per index. Aggregate node, mode All Item Data. Puts all four posts on one row instead of four. Code node "Format Output". Reads each generator by node name, each in its own try/catch, so one failure still writes a row. Builds a readable timestamp, a 100-character transcript_preview, and status: 'Generated'. Google Sheets, Append Row, Map Automatically. THE SHEET Seven columns, headers in row 1, named to match the Code node exactly: timestamp, transcript_preview, twitter_post, linkedin_post, skool_post, instagram_post, status. Status is a dropdown: Generated > Reviewed > Scheduled > Published. The system drafts, I decide. FOUR THINGS THAT COST ME HOURS Turn Simplify Output OFF on every OpenAI node. Every expression reads choices[0].message.content, which only exists in the raw response. Leave Simplify on and you get four empty columns with no error explaining why. No title row above your headers. I had a merged title in row 1, headers in row 2. Map Automatically stopped seeing my columns and silently built duplicates beside them. Extend data validation down the whole column (G2:G1000, not G2). I set the dropdown on one cell and every appended row arrived as plain text. Kill markdown in the prompt, not after. I wasted an evening regex-stripping ** in the Code node. The fix was upstream: tell Skool and Instagram plain text only, CAPITALS or "quotes" for emphasis. Zero artefacts since. Post-processing cleanup means your prompt is underspecified. RESULT Two hours per piece became 18 seconds of runtime plus 5-10 minutes of review. I tested 20 transcripts across five content types (tutorial, interview, news, explainer, motivational). Most were publishable with light edits. The failure mode never changed: rambling transcript, vague analysis, four vague posts. Which is exactly why the analyst node gets the better model. Budget 30 minutes to rebuild. The prompts are the product. Copy the structure, then rewrite the platform rules in your own voice. That's what decides whether it sounds like you or like everyone else.

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#contentrepurposing#googlesheets#promptengineering#socialmedia#transcript

Build a Driver Management System with AI and One-Click Booking

I built a Driver Management System with ChatGPT and Google. It stores client and driver information, including links, and lets me schedule jobs through a one-click booking wizard. The system also provides reports, helps me search for available drivers by licence type and other criteria, tracks available jobs, and includes a dashboard showing unassigned drivers. This is my first project with AI, and I love what I’ve been able to build. Step-by-step: 1. I used ChatGPT and Google to build a Driver Management System. 2. I added client and driver information, including links. 3. I created a one-click booking wizard for scheduling jobs. 4. I added reports and search tools for finding available drivers by licence type and other criteria. 5. I set up job tracking and a dashboard showing unassigned drivers.

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Use ChatGPT to clean up scanned photos for a family photobook

My mum’s 80th birthday is next week, and my dad, sister, and I wanted to create a photobook of her life. My dad scanned hundreds of photos from over the years and sent them to me to clean up. Because we were working to a tight deadline and I was away on holiday, I didn’t have time to open and edit each image individually in Photoshop. I asked ChatGPT to build a tool that accepts a folder of scanned images in various formats, including scans containing single or multiple photos, overlapping photos, and photos cut off by the scanner. The tool processed each scan, cropped and straightened the individual photos, and provided a UI where I could review the results and make manual adjustments to the cropping and orientation before saving the changes to new files. I then had the tool upload the images to Google Drive and create a spreadsheet with thumbnails of every image, along with a rating system. I shared the spreadsheet with my dad and sister so we could use it as a central place to rate the photos we wanted to include in the final book. This saved me hours of work and meant we could complete the photobook in time for my mum’s birthday. Step-by-step: 1. My dad scanned hundreds of photos and sent them to me as image files in various formats. 2. I asked ChatGPT to build a tool that could process scans containing single or multiple photos, overlapping photos, and photos cut off by the scanner. 3. I used the tool to crop and straighten each individual photo. 4. I reviewed the results in the tool’s UI and made manual adjustments to the cropping and orientation where needed. 5. I saved the adjusted photos as new files and had the tool upload them to Google Drive. 6. I had the tool create a spreadsheet containing thumbnails of all the images and a rating system for each photo. 7. I shared the spreadsheet with my dad and sister so we could rate the photos and choose which ones to include in the final photobook.

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#photoediting#photos#photoscanning
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I capture my thoughts in Apple Notes and process them into my calendar and Obsidian with Claude Cowork

I quickly capture my thoughts in Apple Notes, which serves as my mobile inbox. A scheduled Claude Cowork skill reads those notes through the desktop connector on my MacBook and processes them into my calendar and Obsidian. I organize notes using either the “Forever Notes” method (https://www.myforevernotes.com/docs/journal) or a simple YYYYMMDD daily-note format. Time-log notes record a start time, end time, and description, then save that information to the calendar app. The calendar holds the raw data, which I can extract into a separate Excel sheet if necessary. Planned schedules are checked against existing calendar entries. If an entry is already present, it is highlighted; if it is missing, it is added. This saves me the time and effort of opening a link or editing multiple fields in the calendar app. Random thoughts are filed into my second brain in Obsidian. They are processed with templates, moved to specific folders, or intentionally tagged. Apple Notes, Obsidian, Apple Calendar, and Google Apps are free. The only subscription I need is a Claude account to use Claude Cowork. Step-by-step: 1. I capture thoughts and other information in Apple Notes on my mobile device. 2. A scheduled Claude Cowork skill reads the notes through the desktop connector on my MacBook. 3. I organize the notes using the “Forever Notes” method or a YYYYMMDD daily-note format. 4. I process time-log notes containing a start time, end time, and description, then save them to the calendar app. 5. I check planned schedules against existing calendar entries, highlighting entries that are already present and adding those that are missing. 6. I extract the calendar’s raw data into a separate Excel sheet if necessary. 7. I process random thoughts in Obsidian with templates, move them to specific folders, or intentionally tag them.

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gave claude access to my file server and a master plan doc detailing out the naming conventions and folder structure to have it autofile

I’m creating a master plan in Google Docs that documents my file structure and naming conventions for different file types, including insurance documents, receipts, contracts, and others. I’ll give Claude access to my file server through a file-sharing link and have it create a Markdown file with guidelines for how I want my files organized. To define those guidelines, I can have Claude interview me about my business and what I want the system to do. I’ll then copy and paste a file path into Claude Code and ask it to organize the files according to the master plan. Eventually, I plan to create a folder on all my employees’ desktops that Claude can scan regularly, naming and filing everything placed there. That way, I won’t have to worry about files being misfiled or named incorrectly. Step-by-step: 1. I’ll create a master plan in Google Docs that lists the file structure and naming conventions for each file type, such as insurance documents, receipts, and contracts. 2. I’ll give Claude access to my file server through a file-sharing link. 3. I’ll have Claude create a Markdown file with guidelines for the organization system, using an interview about my business and requirements to define what it should do. 4. I’ll copy and paste a file path into Claude Code and ask it to organize the files according to the master plan. 5. Eventually, I’ll create a folder on each employee’s desktop for regular scanning, so files placed there can be named and filed automatically.

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A voice-based expense tracker

I changed my iPhone’s Action Button from mute/unmute to a menu of shortcuts. When I press it, I can select a shortcut I created called “Expense AI.” Expense AI records my voice, appends the transcript to a prompt, and sends it to ChatGPT. ChatGPT returns a JSON object containing the time, amount, expense description, payment method, and category. The data is then saved to a live Google Sheet. Step-by-step: 1. I changed the iPhone Action Button to display a menu of shortcuts instead of controlling mute/unmute. 2. I selected the “Expense AI” shortcut from that menu. 3. Expense AI recorded my voice and appended the transcript to a prompt. 4. It sent the prompt to ChatGPT, which returned JSON with the time, amount, expense description, payment method, and category. 5. The resulting data was saved to my live Google Sheet.

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Build a Custom Wedding RSVP and Seating Chart Workflow

Every RSVP tool I found wanted a monthly subscription to collect a few hundred yes-or-no answers, and none would return my data in a format I could use. So I built my own with Claude Code. The RSVP system is small: a form deployed on Vercel and embedded into our wedding website. We also emailed the direct link because plenty of guests might never visit the site. The form asks for more than a yes-or-no response. It collects meal choices, dietary restrictions, and plus-ones. Every submission adds a row to a Google Sheet through the Sheets API. That sheet ended up mattering more than the app. Months later, when it was time to create the seating chart, every guest was already represented in clean, structured rows that I could give to a completely different tool. For seating, I opened the same sheet in Claude and wrote out the rules in plain English: who had to sit together, who could not sit anywhere near each other, which relatives needed a quiet corner, and which friends could anchor a table of people who did not know anyone else. Claude produced a first draft that respected those constraints, along with an interactive board where I could drag people between tables. Step-by-step: 1. Tell Claude Code which fields you want on the RSVP form and have it build the front end and back end. Have Claude deploy it to Vercel. 2. Set up a Google Cloud service account, enable the Google Sheets API, and share the sheet with the service account’s email address. Configure each submission to append a row. 3. Embed the form on your wedding website and email the direct link separately. Some people will never open the website. 4. Ask for everything you will eventually need, not just attendance. Your caterer and venue will want meal counts and dietary restrictions, and going back to collect that information later is miserable. 5. When it is time to seat people, point Claude at the same sheet and write your rules in plain language: who must sit together, who cannot sit together, who needs a quiet table, and who can anchor a table of strangers. 6. Have Claude generate a first draft based on those rules, then move people yourself. This works anywhere you have a public form collecting data and a private tool that needs to reason about it. Put a spreadsheet between them instead of building one app that tries to do both. The form stays simple, and whatever you build six months later can read from the same place.

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#apiintegration#automation#personalprojects
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Build a ChatGPT Agent to Find Legitimate Access to Private Golf Clubs

I love golf, but many of the courses I most want to play are private and nearly impossible to access unless you know a member. Instead of manually emailing clubs, searching charity events, asking for introductions, and trying to remember who I contacted months ago, I built a Private Golf Access Agent in ChatGPT. The goal is to identify legitimate opportunities to play highly rated private clubs without simply paying my way in. I gave the agent 50 target clubs across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, including 10 “moonshot” courses where an invitation would be extremely difficult. The agent acts more like a golf-access researcher, relationship manager, and outreach assistant than a chatbot. It researches each club, identifies access paths, finds the right person, personalizes outreach, tracks every interaction, monitors opportunities, and recommends what to do next. I still approve every email before anything is sent. That matters because I don’t want the agent spamming clubs, inventing relationships, or continuing after someone says no. The system looks for legitimate paths, including professional introductions, complimentary charity or special-event opportunities, reciprocal access, personalized direct outreach, unused guest spots, golf-project requests, and long-term relationship opportunities. Step-by-step: 1. I divided the 50 clubs into moonshots, elite targets, and high-quality targets. 2. I had the agent research each club independently, including its leadership, PGA professionals, policies, events, social media, recent news, reviews, charitable connections, and possible introductions. 3. The agent identified the most appropriate contact and researched why that person made sense. 4. Before writing, it gathered specific details so each email was clearly personalized rather than a blast. 5. I trained its cold-outreach persona to sound like a blend of me and two or three sales trainers I admire, including Josh Braun-style low-pressure curiosity, short conversational writing, humor, and an easy way to say no. 6. The agent can learn new skills and add them to its protocol. For example, when it struggled to find employee email addresses, I taught it my Google search method. That method is now part of the workflow it uses for future clubs. 7. I tracked everything in a live Google Sheet showing the current status, progress, next action, opportunity status, and whether I need to approve something. The current status column is highlighted so I can check where every club stands in real time. The statuses include: Researching → Ready for AJ Review → Outreach Sent → Conversation Open → Opportunity Identified → Monitoring. 8. If there is no immediate path, the agent does not keep bothering the club. It moves the club into monitoring mode and waits for a better opportunity. 9. When someone responds, the system keeps the relationship history so future communication builds on the real conversation. The live tracker is shown in a Google Sheet status screenshot. What I like most is that the AI isn’t doing one isolated task. It handles the repetitive parts of an ongoing objective—research, qualification, contact discovery, personalization, organization, monitoring, and follow-up—while leaving the important judgment calls with me. Eventually, I want it operating like a 24/7 private-golf-access concierge: 50 clubs being researched and monitored, with me only getting involved when the agent finds something worth acting on. TOOLS USED: ChatGPT, Gmail, Google Sheets, Google Drive/Docs, web research, and AI agents/automations.

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Build a San Diego Startup Company Map with Claude and Google Sheets

San Diego County is enormous, and its startup scene is growing rapidly. I wanted a better way to see where companies are located, especially because many of them host networking events and there was no central map or repository. I told Claude what I wanted: an alphabetical directory with an industry selector and a way for people to add their own companies. I also asked it to keep the project as simple as possible, use as few tokens as possible, and wait for my approval before taking any action. Claude helped me design the map, create the Google Form for submissions, set up the Google Sheets workflow for hosting and approving companies, and use Netlify to host the main file. It also guided me through linking the map to a page on my own website: https://sdaimap.michelabood.com/. Claude warned me about the legal issues involved in scraping a list wholesale from other sites, so the map is designed to be populated by people submitting their own companies. I just published it, and 10 companies have already been listed, with more on the way. I have also received great comments on LinkedIn. Now I can see at a glance how far I need to go to find a specific company. I also had Claude create a step-by-step guide, which I am happy to share if people want it. Step-by-step: 1. I described the map I wanted to Claude, including an alphabetical directory, an industry selector, and a way for people to add their own companies. 2. I asked Claude to keep the project as simple as possible, use as few tokens as possible, and wait for my approval before taking any action. 3. I used Claude to design the map and create the Google Form for company submissions. 4. I used Google Sheets to host and approve the submitted companies. 5. I followed Claude's guidance to host the main file on Netlify. 6. I linked the map to a page on my own website: https://sdaimap.michelabood.com/. 7. I avoided scraping a wholesale list from other sites because of the legal issues Claude identified. 8. I published the map and began collecting company listings from people directly.

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#ai#map#sandiego#startups
sdaimap.michelabood.com https://sdaimap.michelabood.com/
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Build a Gemini Gem to Find the Right Medium Publication

I built an interactive AI recommender for Medium publications and packaged it as a Gemini Gem. Medium writers who want their articles to be discovered can submit their pieces to a publication, which is like a digital magazine focused on a specific topic. However, there are hundreds of publications, so it can be difficult to find the right one for a particular article. A key resource is "Medium's Huge List of Publications Accepting Submissions." It contains basic information about each publication, but the list is difficult to navigate because of its size. My solution was to organize that information and use it as the source for an AI recommender. I packaged the system as a Gem because the interface is cleaner, and users do not need to see the sources I used. Step-by-step: 1. I asked Gemini to compile and format basic information for each publication, including its topic, size by number of followers, and a short description. 2. I consolidated that information in a Google Sheet. 3. I used the spreadsheet as a source for a Google Notebook (formerly NotebookLM). 4. I added instructions for the AI, like the following: "You are an expert guiding the user to find the ideal publications for their articles in Medium. Ask the user to write down what their interests, topics, etc., are; whether they are beginner writers; whether they want to start with a small publication (less than 1,000 followers), mid-size (a few thousand), or only the biggest (tens or hundreds of thousands). Ask them for any other personal information and details about their writing, and take that into account." 5. I packaged the system as a Gemini Gem instead of distributing it as a Notebook so users could access it through a cleaner interface without seeing the sources. It can be accessed at the following link: https://gemini.google.com/gem/1HDPzcE6Jls76V4I2tFZhIn-SbeeDe-_-?usp=sharing

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