Dario's Picks
The 6 GPTs I use to boost my daily workflow
My favourite GPTs and how I use them + the 5 most powerful tips to make you a ChatGPT wizard
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1. Keymate.AI GPT
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How I use it
- Understanding the content of a website or an article quickly.
- Asking questions, summarising, explaining, rewritring or translating content from any website.
- In planning content for this site, I use it for keyword research and asking for suggestions for optimising on-page SEO.
Why I like it
- It's the most versatile plugin for ChatGPT
- It can quickly get info from nearly any source
Hot tip
Ask it to analyse multiple webpages in a single prompt.
Combine it with
- A+ Doc Maker to convert your output into almost any format.
Chat demonstration
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2. Doc Maker
Creates documents for reports, resumes, newsletters, etc., and exports them to PDF, Word, Google Drive, or OneDrive.
Create docs for reports, resumes, newsletters, and more. Export to PDF, Word, Google Drive / OneDrive.
How I use it
I ask ChatGPT to generate a table, then A+ Doc Maker to give it to me as an Excel or CSV file.
Why I like it
- Super convenient and versatile
- The only plugin you need for exporting your chat output in most cases
Hot tip
- After you create a doc, the link to download the file has an "Export to Google Drive" link. Very convenient!
Keep in mind
- It's free unless you want faster preview loading times and premium templates.
Combine it with
- Any plugin or workflow in ChatGPT that gives you an output you want to save as PDF, Word, Excel or CSV.
Chat demonstration
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3. ScholarAI
Aids in navigating through a vast collection of over 200 million articles, journals, and books for research purposes.
Your Research Assistant - I'll help you navigate over a corpus of 200M articles, journals, and books
How I use it
- in writing my newsletter covering recent news and research within AI and tech. ScholarAI allows me to search for and quickly find research studies on a specific topic. Here's an example where I ask it to find recent studies related to ChatGPT, and get a very condensed and useful overview back; notice how I'm asking for a specific output condensing abstracts for quicker readability.
Why I like it
- Provides fast and reliable access to peer-reviewed articles and academic research on any topic. Is fairly quick, compared to some of the other options for academic research.
- Team behind the plugin committed to making a trustable product.ScholarAI is founded by what seems to me as solid team of researchers and developers, committed to providing reliable information, which I think is of major importance for anyone considering implementing AI into their research.
- ScholarAI has also been featured in Yahoo! Finance, and called a "game-changing ChatGPT plugin for journalists" by the International Journalists' Network.
Hot tip
Ask it to generate a lot of studies on a particular subject (you will need to confirm ChatGPT to proceed with searching over multiple prompts), then export the output to excel with A+ Doc Maker. You now have an extensive, neatly organised and filterable list of studies for the topic you need – huge time saver!
Combine it with
- AskYourPDF to reliably (and in a traceable manner) analyse the full length of the research papers you've found with ScholarAI.
- A+ Doc Maker to generate excel files with your findings for easy overview.
PS! If you are looking science backed answers to your questions, rather than a list of studies, I highly recommend checking out the Consensus Search plugins.
Chat demonstration
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4. ResearchGPT
Serves as an AI research assistant, capable of searching through millions of academic papers, providing science-based answers, and assisting in content drafting with accurate citations.
AI Research Assistant. Search 200M academic papers from Consensus, get science-based answers, and draft content with accurate citations.
How I use it
- Consensus give you answers grounded in scientific research, with proper citations. Whenever, I have questions about whether or not a claim is backed by science, this plugin is my go-to for getting a quick, reliable answer.
- I can then get creative with the result, and use ChatGPT to create content around the results.
Why I like it
- Google is great, but if you enter a research question the top results aren't necessarily the most credible sources, but rather sites that have high authority and are able to rank high in the search result pages. Consensus provides a great alternative by searching only scientific publications and providing the most relevant answer to your questions.
Hot tip
- Use Consensus to ask ChatGPT an intriguing research question, then ask ChatGPT to spin up a blog article incorporating the key information from the results. It will be much more insightful than just asking it to make an article based on the default model.
Combine it with
- Here's a gem for SEO purposes: Combine with AI Search Engine to ask Google the same question as you asked Consensus. Ask ChatGPT to analyse the top SERP results, and find information from the Consensus results that's not already on Google. Boom, you have something valuable that's not already on Google, which makes it more likely to rank.
Chat demonstration

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4. AskYourPDF
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How I use it
- to summarise any document, ask for key points, etc.
- I've used it to quickly analyse tedious reports (e.g. legal documents, companies' annual reports, quarterly presentations), and extracting key insights (these are often available online as PDF docs).
Why I like it
- References specific page numbers when it extracts information. This can be crucial if accuracy is important for your use case; ChatGPT sometimes hallucinates, so you want an option of easily being able to verify the information yourself if needed.
- Handles just about any text-based format you throw at it, as long as it's hosted inside a URL. PDF files, Word documents, Power Points...
- Has the option of uploading files, so you can get a unique document ID (in a URL), which you can use to read and interact with your files.
Keep in mind
- The max file size is only 40MB, so if you have larger files you either have to compress/split your files or use my ChatGPT wizard tip #1 (explained further down this page).
- Keep in mind that if you are uploading files to AskYourPDF, your documents are now online (not publicly available I think, but still, I'd be careful about uploading anything that is sensitive). There's also the option to delete your files after you're done interacting with them, but I found this feature to be a bit glitchy and doesn't always work.
Hot tip
- Analyse multiple documents at the same time by providing URLs to multiple files; for example, you can ask it to compare the documents and present similarities and differences in a table.
Combine it with
- Analyse full-length research papers you find with Scholar AI (the display of page numbers makes it possible to validate the information)
- A+ Doc Maker to convert your output into almost any format.
Chat demonstration

5. YouTube Summarizer
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How I use it
- ask it to search for videos for a specific keyword and give me a summary
- ask it to generate a summary for any specific YouTube video
- teach myself new skills (make a step by step plan from the video).
- digest several views on a particular topic (e.g. ask it generate a summary for 3 specific videos).
Why I like it
- Works reliably and fast
- Unlike other similar plugins for video analysis, VoxScript doesn't have restrictions on video length unless you upgrade to a paid plan; however, like other plugins extracting information, the shorter the video or text is, the more better the result.
Hot tip
If the video is very long, the plugin might not be able to utilise the whole thing to give you a summary (due to ChatGPT's limitations on max amount of tokens).
If that's the case, ask it to "Fetch every other page of the transcript and tell me what the main points were".
Combine it with
- A+ Doc Maker to convert your output into almost any format.
Chat demonstration
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Note! Keep in mind when using WebPilot, YouTube Summarizer and AskYourPDF
It's very important for you as user of these plugins to understand that when you ask them to analyse big chunks of text, they will always try to encapsulate as much of the document that they can. This is because ChatGPT is limited to a certain number of tokens/words, it is probably not going to go through the document word-by-word (which would be the optimal scenario for accuracy).
Always keep in mind that when using ChatGPT and interacting with a large document (e.g. with WebPilot or AskYourPDF) or a long YouTube video (e.g. with VoxScript), you are on some level working with a SUMMARY of the information. This means it can and will miss certain parts of relevant words and sentences, which could result in incomplete (or worse: inaccurate) information on your end. Take this into account, and manually check the source information directly if accuracy is crucial to you.
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BONUS: Additional tips to make you a ChatGPT wizard
Tip #1: Try Claude 2 as an alternative for summarising a lot of text
Don't limit yourself to one tool. Think of AI like a toolbox, and use the most efficient instrument for the job.
If you are looking to summarise a huge chuck of text data (on a website or from a file such as PDF or Word), and you're not getting what you want from ChatGPT and GPTs, try Claude 2 by Anthropic. It's an easy-to-use, free chatbot that can process around 75,000 words. While the newly updated ChatGPT Turbo model has a slightly longer "context window" (about 96,000 words), Claude 2 is the best second alternative in case you reach GPT-4's usage cap or ChatGPT is down.
Claude is only directly available in the US and UK so far, but can be accessed in more countries through some other AI chatbots such as Poe (limited access for free) and Perplexity (if you are on the Pro plan).
Tip #2: Use C for analysing data
Code Interpreter is, arguably, ChatGPT's most powerful feature to date, with a lot of use cases. Specifically, if you are looking to analyse data with ChatGPT, its the best solution out there.
This use to be a separate mode inside ChatGPT, but will now activate whenever you ask try to upload a dataset and analyse it, or you ask it tocode with Python. You can see Code Interpreter working when it says "Analyzing" inside the chat interface while ChatGPT is generating a response.
ChatGPT lets you upload files in various formats directly into the chat; you can then ask it to analyse them, make data visualisations or do advanced calculations and modelling – it's use cases are nearly unlimited because it uses Python (a popular programming language) under the hood to produce results. It also lets you export the chat output to almost any format.
You can also combine Code Interpreter with access to real-time data through the default "Browse with Bing" (activated automatically when you ask ChatGPT to search the web) or using a GPT like Keymate.AI to search Google instead. A slightly annoying thing to watch out for is ChatGPT trying to use Code Interpreter at times when you don't want to use it (such as for simple reasoning tasks when ChatGPT's native model would be quicker and more accurate). In those cases, I specifically ask ChatGPT to use its default reasoning and not Interpreter.
If you are interested to learn how to get better at data analysis withR, I recommend searching YouTube for tutorials. I'm also planning to make detailed tutorials for this, when I have time (I'll let you know in my weekly newsletter).
Hot tip: An amazing use I've found for Code Interpreter in relation to building this site is to download a .CSV file from Google Analytics (usage statistics about my website) andjust ask ChatGPT to summarise things like monthly traffic, demographics, performance per page, and much more. I get useful graphs that tell me a lot of interesting insights with very little effort.
Tip #3: Need accurate answers? Try Bard and Perplexity, too.
GPT is great, but it’s not as good as some other chatbots at providing sources and references. Some GPTs like ResearchGPT go some way in remedying this limitation, which is great. If you want to try out some other options for getting more accurate with your research, I recommend testing out Bard and Perplexity.
Bard:
Google Bard's (Google's answer to ChatGPT) latest feature allows you to fact check its response through a Google search. It marks answers that are aligned with the Google search green, while anything that is in disagreement with Google will be marked orange.
While you shouldn't rely on this fully to fact check if accuracy is highly important to you (remember, Google can also be wrong), it's a neat way to quickly check if the answers have a foundation in existing information or not.
Perplexity:
Perplexity is an AI tool like ChatGPT, but has access to several LLM models from different companies such as GPT-4 (ChatGPT) and Claude 2 (Anthropic). The most awesome things about it is that, compared to ChatGPT, it provides clear sources and referencing, and is works very quickly.
If you’re a researcher, I recommend checking it out and making up your own mind if it suits your needs or not.
Tip #4: Use Bard with Extensions for working with Google Workspace apps
Google's AI chatbot Bard is currently inferior to ChatGPT for most use-cases, as it hallucinates more and is not as good in reasoning. While this might change in the future (especially when Google launches its upcoming LLM Gemini) the recent additions of Extensions for Bard generally makes it better at working with native Google apps that have an Extension available.
If you want to analyse your Gmail, Google Docs, or Google Drive documents, Bard offers the most streamlined way to do this. There are also extensions available for Google Flights, Google Hotels, Google Maps and YouTube.
While it works pretty well for certain tasks, Bard's Extension have their limitations, such as struggling to retrieve information from more than 5 emails at once.
To quickly understand how you can use these Extensions, I recommend watching Google's own demo video.
Here are examples of use-cases where you probably want to use Bard instead of ChatGPT:
- Creating a map based on email content, e.g., plotting travel destinations from flight booking emails.
- Providing reminders or follow-ups on tasks or engagements mentioned in emails.
- Screening emails for specific content, although with the 5-email limitation mentioned above (and risk of hallucinations).
Tip #5: Add the potato prompt to your Custom Instructions
ChatGPT often generates a lot of fluff along with the actual information you need. I recommend adding the following prompt, often referred to as a "potato prompt", to your Custom Instructions (under "How would you like ChatGPT to respond?") to make your work more efficient.
The potato prompt goes like this:
“Please be succinct in your responses. I already know you are an AI language model developed by OpenAI. Don't stretch sentences beyond what's needed and reduce fluff in your responses”
Below you’ll find the plugins I use in my day-to-day work. After testing plugins extensively, I find myself using plugins mostly for 2 things:
- Extracting information from the web.
- Converting that information to a specific format.
This list contains the truly awesome plugins that I keep returning to again and again, and which make me more productive. There are other plugins I have used and been impressed by for more advanced use cases, such as automation, but they are not daily go-to's like the ones below.
I also go into more detail on how I use each one below. Enjoy!