138: Effortless Essays

My motivations here are simple.

In 2023, I'm trying to write more emotionally vulnerable and sensory-rich stories from my life. (From last year: What Getting Sued, Scammed, and Arrested Taught Me About Resilience). In a world where seemingly intelligent advice and nonfiction abounds, the power is in the personal. In addition, expressive and per

Today I'm going to share how I leveraged free & low-cost tools to leverage AI to enhance my narrative / memoir writing. If you've been looking for a practical application for GPT-3, this is a great place to start for three reasons:

1. Useful for any kind of writing—for many people, getting the first draft of a piece of content is the hardest part.

I really hope you give this workflow a try. It's been a delightful way for me to advance my writing efforts and with a bit of effort, you can start using AI to work for you and help you produce more high quality writing because you don't have to start from the blank page.

1. Human (Jason) uploads a voice memo to specific Google Drive folder


2. Zapier checks for new files in Google Drive, sends audio to Temi for transcription


3. Zapier checks Temi for completed transcript, sends it back to different Google Drive folder


4. Zapier checks for new transcripts, sends them to OpenAI with 3 separate prompts (rewrite, suggesti