20+ Examples for Getting the Most out of AI Right Now
In this post, I showcase various practical examples of working hand-in-hand with artificial intelligence inside of Alice - the app that we've been building for the past year and proudly launch today!
My last post about how the concept of Alice evolved into our work and daily routine concluded on day 0. Please, review this post if you are interested in our approach to practical AI applications and how we arrived at the final version of the application.
Today, we can officially say that we have entered day 1. I am pleased to inform you that we are launching Alice officially, and you are invited to the party! 🎉 The premiere is happening on Product Hunt, and your support and feedback mean a lot to us.
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The launch of Alice itself prompts us to reflect on where we currently stand in terms of AI support for our work and where we will be very soon. In fact, we have prepared Alice to be ready for future technologies, and we are incredibly excited about what may unfold.
At this moment, Alice offers, in my opinion, the best possible experience when working with LLM. The fact that it is a native application and utilizes APIs finally allows us to use AI productively. In the case of ChatGPT, this is impossible for me—it simply cannot be tolerated due to its slow performance and constant errors, at least not to the extent where it can be a precise tool that I use predictably in my work.
With Alice, it's different—she is instantly available in the system, and I can summon her with a keyboard shortcut. I receive responses from the API in the shortest possible time, and if one model works slower, I can easily switch to another and continue working.
The ability to collaborate with multiple models and easily switch between them in one conversation is a huge advantage of Alice, which anyone can already benefit from; it does not require a learning process.
In addition to conversing with the model itself, Alice also has features that assist in performing more repetitive tasks. This involves the ability to define custom prompts in the form of Snippets and summon them with a keyboard shortcut. In Alice, there is also the option to create custom assistants that operate within a specific context. All of this helps save a lot of time because repetitive tasks can be completed quickly or with the help of a command—in record time. Drafting a response to an email, correcting errors in text, or translations are simply at your fingertips.
Finally, the ability to perform remote actions, which is the most advanced feature and at the same time only requires an understanding of basic automation mechanisms. Actions enable executing commands in the software we use, such as delegating tasks in Asana, reviewing reports in Stripe or Google Analytics, or saving clients to CRM.
Overall, I have presented all the key features of Alice in this video:
Use-cases for working with AI & Alice
One thing is knowing what possibilities are within our reach, and another, turning them into real actions and tools that will help us in the future.
That's why in this post, I have prepared plenty of materials that can serve as inspiration for how to work with Alice, and some of them I would like to present to you now. Some of them are very simple, others a bit more complex and utilize automation.
Ready? Let's begin!
Text Correction
Please see how Alice is able to quickly correct any text. In practice, I often use this technique, writing a bit more carelessly but much faster. I know that Alice will simply correct typos after me:
Creating Social Media Content
Alice often helps me in reformatting content and adapting it to different channels. I can easily gain a lot of inspiration for what to write about:
Working with Translations
With the help of Alice and Snippets, I can work quickly with different languages and format content properly, and even learn new languages or translate websites:
Mixing Models
In practice, working with Alice also works for me because I can use multiple models at once, for example, with Perplexity when I want to get more up-to-date information:
Customer Support with Alice
Utilizing assistants who have knowledge of my products allows for efficiently crafting responses to customer inquiries:
Using Snippets in Other Tools
On the other hand, the ability to assign shortcuts to prompts works great for me in many cases, where I don't even need to launch Alice, as she can work in the background for me:
Creating Longer Content
I also frequently utilize Alice as assistance in creating longer formats, articles, or blog posts:
Formal Letters and Messages
Another very practical application is messages to support, complaints, correspondence with insurers, and other situations where a slightly more formal letter needs to be written. Here's how Alice helps me in such situations:
Working with Images
I also often use Alice to work with images—not only for generating them but also for translating, extracting information from longer content by simply taking a picture, and even summarizing values from a screenshot:
Content Editing
Another practical application is creating descriptions and generating them for YouTube videos or in other situations where I repeatedly use the same formats:
Calculations and Current Data
Moving on to slightly more advanced techniques, although we're still talking about dedicating 10 minutes to configuration, I use the Wolfram API connected within a simple Snippet to perform complex calculations.
Searching Image Libraries
Taking it a step further, thanks to Alice, I can eliminate the need to log into interfaces and use a browser, which always takes much more time. For example, images from Unsplash can be downloaded automatically, a process that my 6-year-old can handle in just a few minutes.
Quick Calendar Links
Another action I often rely on is creating quick links to the calendar; I don't even need to open it, as Alice helps me obtain the link.
Quick Meeting Links
Similarly, quick links created for my meetings, in my case on Zoom, but any platform can be used here.
Adding Tasks for the Team
With Alice's assistance, I can not only add tasks for myself but also delegate them to my team, using tools like Todoist, Trello, Asana, or Slack.
Social Media Publishing
With Alice's help, I schedule these posts on Social Media, especially handy when I want to quickly share a thought but don't necessarily want to spend 20 minutes scrolling through the platform when I come across it. This scenario may seem a bit more complex, but in reality, it's very straightforward.
Google Analytics Reports
There are plenty of services and tools where I have to go just to click through several screens to extract one thing that interests me. This is the case with Google Analytics, so instead, I set up a simple action in Alice.
These are just some of the hundreds of actions I perform daily with Alice. I hope I've inspired you with what is now possible with the help of artificial intelligence!
What's next for Alice?
It not only looks great but also works wonderfully. Of course, I am aware of its limitations. Put simply, today's AI cannot provide us with the ability to remotely control tools and software. What we do with Alice is simply the most effective form of such action, which, one could say, even offers greater control, but it involves a learning process.
By combining a few mentioned things, such as establishing new habits, using native applications, perhaps learning new keyboard shortcuts, and also – to achieve more, even simple automations, we encounter what may be the biggest challenge of our modest project: adoption.
Is Alice better than ChatGPT? In my opinion, definitely yes. Should that be enough for users to start using it? Certainly not. Therefore, our natural target group consists of people who already see the value in what Alice offers. Those who may have created automations in Zapier before and understand what an API is.
Perhaps only the next stage of Alice's development will involve more widespread adoption, where we could gradually introduce native integrations that would allow, for example, easy authorization of a Google account and asking Alice to schedule a meeting.
At the moment, however, the biggest barrier is not the fact that we don't have this yet, but rather that current models are not yet ready to handle such integrations. Perhaps GPT-5 will, and then Alice will become a platform where users will indeed see enough value, greater than ChatGPT, to invest time in a few new habits.
Today is the day! 🎉
Whatever the future holds, the hundreds of hours of work we have dedicated to Alice have already paid off for us even before its official launch – time saved for ourselves and our teams has surely compensated us for the effort put into its creation. On the other hand, it has been a brilliant adventure, and we will definitely continue it. It's a great example that good tool ideas simply come from real needs, most often our own.
If you are like us, one of those people who see value in the tool we are presenting today, I hope you’ll join us and Alice. This is why I also have a special offer for you. For those who have supported us from the beginning, we have prepared a lifetime deal for the Alice application. You can buy it for a one-time price and use it indefinitely. You can also equip your entire team with it! For a limited time, as part of this offer, Alice for one person costs only $99, and here are all the plans
You can find the offer and our new website, over which I have spent many nights, at:
But for now, I have a big ask for you!
Please, join us for the Product Hunt launch and write in the comments what you think about Alice. Maybe together we can fight for the podium (we're so close!).
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Many thanks,
Greg, Adam & Alice