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Get Ahead of the Curve With These AI Tools

Let's check out some AI tools that will help you get more creative work done.

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Adam Greenbaum
March 28, 2023

Wow, I made it to newsletter #2 with Beehiiv. I once saw a stat that said the average podcast has one episode—meaning people start and quit.

So here’s to the second post of Bagel Bots. 🥂

And a special shout out to Twitter, Notion, and Beehiiv for helping me gather thoughts and be ready to write this newsletter in under 45 minutes.

At the bottom of the newsletter, I include links to exciting AI news and resources that I believe you’ll find valuable.

🤯 The Clipdrop App blew my mind.

Clipdrop has a number of features, but a single AR feature made me pause my Twitter feed, rewatch the clip, and say, “holy shit” out loud to myself.

Imagine a world where what we see in the physical world can be dropped right into a digital project we’re working on.

Even better - what happens when that scenario plays out in the other direction? Freaky.

By combining state of the art artificial intelligence & network communication, ClipDrop provides a unique, continuous workflow that “just works” wherever you go.

Clipdrop

🔗 Check out the full app and all of the incredible features here.

🎨 Let’s steal the hex codes on everything!

I’m obsessed with color and branding. People that work with me reading this just said to themselves, “Yeah, that’s putting it lightly.”

In fact, I will save images, logos, and photos to pull hex codes and then drop them into my favorite Tailwind CSS Color Generator and build an entire brand around the colors. (Seriously, check out that color generator)

Of course, this is tedious work. Enter, Sonny Lazuardi.

Sonny built ColorGPT using the ChatGPT API to pull colors from anything and everything using your phone. So you can be walking down the street and see something beautiful that catches your eye—and boom, you have the hex codes and can build upon it.

🔗 More detail can be found here.

💡 Tip of the week: Make your own illustrations with Midjourney

Finding custom illustrations for a website, deck, or graphic is really hard. Sure, Canva gives you a million of them. Sometimes, it’s not exactly what you want.

What if you could make your own flat art vector icons of anything you want in the colors you want? I tested my theory in Midjourney, and it worked well!

Disclaimer: This took a few tries. You will need to be detailed with your prompt and test until you get it right. The following images are not the exact prompts or images I used for my company. I told you, no personal secrets that could fall into the wrong hands! As you’ll see, they could be better, but you’ll get it right with endless tweaks.

Prompt 1: Simplified flat art vector image of a pet parent walking their dog while on their mobile phone, blue tones, white background --ar 3:2 --q 2 --s 750 --upbeta --v 5

Test for someone selling a mobile app or responsive design.

Prompt 2: A flat design illustration of a startup office with humans and their pets, light colors, --ar 7:4 --q 2 --upbeta --s 750 --v 5

Test for showing the culture of a company that focuses on pets.

I created incredibly long, detailed prompts that tightened this up, but I recommend focusing on the simple flat vector illustrations before diving deeper.

🖊️ A few (more) basic ChatGPT prompt tips

Last week, I gave you a few simple prompts to take ChatGPT to the next level. You can read that post here. [Side note: you can also share it with friends and tell them to subscribe to Bagel Bots]

Moving on.

Here are a few more prompts to help you continue to get better and better with ChatGPT and have it do more work for you.

💡 Ask ChatGPT what prompts it would prefer for the topic you want to learn more about. You can literally ask it to help you use it. Weird, right?

Test prompt: What prompt should I use to get the best meal prep plan from you?

💡 Summarize! You can ask ChatGPT to summarize anything - a movie, a historical event, or a book.

Test prompt: Summarize the movie Avengers Endgame for me.

💡 Explain {subject] to me like I'm five years old. The best way to learn anything is to understand it at the most basic level.

Test prompt: Explain quantum physics like I'm five years old.

💡 Act as a [subject expert] and explain it to me.

Test prompt: Act as a professional nutritionist and tell me the perfect healthy breakfast that I should be eating each morning.

🔗 AI resources that will help you in your journey.

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