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So, everyone keeps obsessing over Claude and ChatGPT, but no one is looking at this tool. And yet, I've used it to make more money, be more efficient, and do less of the stuff that I don't really want to do.
Iman Gadzhi shares 98% of Gemini's useful features in under 26 minutes, covering personal intelligence setup, memory and chat history import, token usage, and advanced tips like inbox automation and D
Key Takeaways
- Context is the main driver of AI usefulness, so investing time in personal intelligence settings and memory import pays off significantly.
- Gemini's main advantage is native integration with Google products that users already rely on daily.
- Understanding token usage and choosing the right plan or model prevents hitting limits mid-workflow.
- Advanced automations like nightly inbox summaries and Deep Research can save substantial time when set up deliberately.
What the video covers
- Gemini is argued to be more useful than rival AI tools mainly because Google's ecosystem (Gmail, Calendar, Docs, YouTube) is already embedded in users' daily workflows.
- The video is organized into beginner, intermediate, and advanced tips, with a sponsor-style giveaway of a MacBook requiring a like, a comment, and watching the full video.
- Beginner tip one: set up Personal Intelligence in settings by connecting apps (Calendar, Email, Google Workspace, YouTube) and writing custom instructions.
- Custom instructions recommended: keep answers short and direct, and do not be a yes-man; push back and explain why ideas are weak.
- Users can import memory from other AI tools by copying a summary prompt from Gemini, and can also upload exported chat history for full context transfer.
- Memory is a summary of preferences and facts, while chat history contains every past conversation; doing both is recommended for a smooth switch.
- Tip two explains tokens as usage credits, the cost behind different Gemini plans, and how heavy usage can hit limits.
- Intermediate tips include using Gemini across Gmail and Docs to draft, summarize, and ask questions without switching tabs.
- Advanced tips include nightly inbox summaries generated while the user sleeps, and automated desktop file organization via a tool called Spark.
- Deep Research is highlighted as a powerful feature: provide context, let the AI ask clarifying questions, then receive a comprehensive report.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction: Why Gemini Matters
- 01:08Why Google's Ecosystem Gives Gemini an Edge
- 02:53Giveaway and How to Enter
- 04:45Beginner Tip 1: Setting Up Personal Intelligence
- 07:48Importing Memory and Chat History from Other AIs
- 14:34Tip 2: Understanding Models and Token Usage
- 17:58Intermediate Tips: Working Inside Gmail and Docs
- 18:38Advanced Tips: Inbox Automation and Desktop Organization
- 22:50Deep Research and Learning Tools
- 26:24Final Thoughts and Side Hustle Summit Promotion
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And the coolest part about it is that it's embedded in everything that I already use.
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So, in today's video, let me talk to you about Gemini.
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So, look, the last few months I have been on a bit of a mission, basically testing out every single AI tool there is.
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And over the last few weeks, I've been focusing on Gemini.
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Now, you might be asking, what makes Gemini different from Claude, ChatGPT, or any of the others?
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Well, the answer doesn't really come down to the AI itself.
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It's about who's behind it.
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Google, a $4 trillion company, one of the biggest on the planet.
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So, really think about it for a second.
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Google owns an absurd amount of the infrastructure that most of us use day-to-day.
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Your email, Google.
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Your calendar, Google.
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Your documents, Google.
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The platform that you are watching this on right now, YouTube.
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Well, that's also owned by Google.
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Almost no other AI has that.
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Not a single one of them is already integrated inside of everything that you use.
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So, I've gone ahead and pulled together the best tips that I found while using it.
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And I've actually split them into three levels.
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You've got beginner, intermediate, and advanced.
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But real quick, before we get into it, as your big brother here on YouTube, I want to give one of you a brand new MacBook.
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It's a little gift for me to help you along in your online journey.
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So, if you want to win, here is all that you have to do.
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I want you to watch the entire video.
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Once you've done that, leave a like and also leave a comment of which tip that you found the most useful.
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Even though the topic of today's video is AI, if it is an AI comment, you will be disqualified.
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Trust me, I can tell who's actually watched the video and who hasn't.
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So, go ahead and drop it in the comments section and come back to next week's video and I'm going to leave it as a pin comment under that.
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But with all of that out of the way, let's jump straight into it.
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All right, so starting off with beginner tip number one, setting up your personal intelligence.
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Now, I know that that might sound fancy, but honestly, it's not.
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It took me like 10 or 15 minutes to set up, if that.
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Literally, all you have to do is hit the settings icon, click on personal intelligence, and then you're going to see three things pop up.
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You've got memory, connected apps, and instructions.
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And we're going to come back to memory in just a second.
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So, let's actually start with connected apps.
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This is where you're actually going to link whatever you're already using day-to-day.
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Your calendar, your email, your Google Workspace, YouTube, pretty much anything Google-related, you can just plug it in here.
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Now, this is actually going to become a bit more relevant later on in the video when we get into one of the more advanced tips.
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So, for now, just go ahead and connect it while you're already here.
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Then, you've got instructions, and this is really just you telling Gemini how you want it to behave with you moving forward.
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Because when it comes to AI, context is everything, right?
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Yes, of course, the tool is super powerful, but if it doesn't know how you work, how you think, and how you want to work with it, it's going to slow you down more than it actually speeds you up.
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And honestly, I cannot stress enough how worth it is to sit down and do this.
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So, mine is actually configured to do two things.
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First is keep answers short and straight to the point.
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And second, I told it not to be a yes man.
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Okay?
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Actually push back on me.
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If the idea is weak, tell me it's weak.
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And then also tell me why.
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That way, we end up going back and forth instead of just agreeing with whatever I say.
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It's little things like this that might seem tedious to do, but spend literally 15 minutes doing it properly, and I promise you, the payoff is huge.
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Now, I said that we'd actually come back to memory.
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And here's why.
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Because this one is in a slightly different spot for whatever reason.
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So, you're going to go back into settings and just below personal intelligence, you're going to see import memory to Gemini.
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You're going to click into that and then there's two options sitting in there.
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Now, I'll be honest, if this feature didn't exist, I would probably still be on ChatGPT right now.
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I stayed there way longer than I should have purely because of its memory with me.
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Because after you've worked with AI for long enough, it starts to understand your preferences, your business, and the way that you make decisions.
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Moving to a new tool can feel like starting from zero.
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And starting fresh from zero wasn't something that I was looking to do.
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But look, you don't have to worry about that anymore because these days it is so easy to transfer over.
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The first part here is importing your memory.
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How it works is Gemini is actually going to give you a prompt.
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You're going to copy it.
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You're going to paste it into whatever AI that you've been using, and it actually hands you back a summary of everything that it knows about you.
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And then you're going to bring that summary over to Gemini, paste it in, and done.
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Then the second one goes a little bit further than that.
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You can actually export your entire chat history and bring that all in too.
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Now, I know that these seem pretty similar, but they are actually quite different.
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Memory is more of like a summary.
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So, your job, your preferences, facts about you, that kind of thing.
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Whereas chat history is literally every conversation that you've ever had with it.
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And that means that you're not sat there trying to play catch-up and rebuild your past conversations.
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So, if you are properly making the switch, honestly, I would just do both.
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And even if you're only trying Gemini out for now, I would still do it anyways.
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To do it, it's pretty simple wherever you're coming from.
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I'm not going to show you exactly how to get it done because it's slightly different depending on where you're actually migrating over from.
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But once again, just head into the settings of your old AI.
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And somewhere in there, there's going to be an option to export your chat history.
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From there, just come back to Gemini, click on upload, and give Gemini your files.
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Is it a little tedious?
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Yes.
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Is it worth doing?
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Absolutely.
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Remember, this all comes down to context because context is everything with AI, and the more it gets to know about you, the better it gets.
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So, now that you've helped Gemini understand you a little bit better, it's probably worth understanding it a little better, too.
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And that's actually tip number two, understanding the different models in here and what each of them is actually doing to your usage.
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Because when you signed up for Gemini, you probably saw a bunch of different plans on there.
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Each one saying that it had more usage than the last.
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And what that usage actually is is tokens.
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Now, tokens are basically just credits that you're spending every time you use the software.
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And look, if you're balling out and you've got no problem paying hundreds of dollars a month on buying extra credits, then by all means, you can go ahead and skip this tip and move on to the next one.
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You see, at MyCo company consulting.com, we've got AI built into pretty much every department at this point.
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Sales, support, marketing, dev, all of it.
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And then on top of that, we've either built or licensed multiple AI software companies that our clients use every single day.
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That's thousands of users across multiple tools.
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And when you add all of that together, we are literally spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a month just in tokens alone.
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Now, of course, you're not spending anywhere near that.
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I know, but it works the exact same for you, just on a smaller scale.
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It is the difference between getting your work done or hitting your limit halfway through and then just sitting there waiting for it to reset.
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And it r
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leave what you're doing to go and use it. So, let's take Gmail for example.
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You're writing an email and there's a little pen icon sitting right there in the compose window that will basically write it with you. Or let's say that you land on one of those threads that's gone 40 replies deep and you have no idea
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what's even been decided anymore. Just tell Gemini to summarize it and then it hands you back exactly what was agreed and what's landed on you to do. Docs work the exact same way. It's just a panel sitting right next to whatever it
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is that you're writing. Draft the whole thing from scratch. Get it to summarize what's already there or ask it a question about whatever you're reading without ever opening a new tab for it.
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Sheets is probably the one that saves you the most pain out of all of them.
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basically tell it what you want to do and it writes the formula and drops it straight into the cell for you. No more sitting there googling how to build formulas because respectfully if the tool can write the formula for you, well
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then why are you spending 20 minutes on the task? And on top of all of that, you can tell it to pull from an email thread or let's say a file sitting in Drive both at once and draft something off of
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the two of them together. Now look, on paper, this is all very impressive, but it's really only effective if you're already on workspace. If Docs and Sheets as well as Gmail are your daily drivers, if that's you, brilliant. This is going
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to work exactly how you would want it to. If it's not, then none of this really applies to you the same way. And that is something I'm going to come back to once we've gone through the rest of
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the list. All right, so that's the intermediate stuff done. And the last two on this list are stepping up from everything that we've covered so far, but they're probably the ones you're also going to get the most out of. First
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up is Spark. Now, if you've ever heard of Claude's co-work feature or chat work, this is basically the Google equivalent. It basically runs on its own, makes its own calls, and gets stuff done for you without you sitting there
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watching it happen. Trust me, I'm aware of how that sounds. AI doing its own thing, making its own calls, that probably makes you feel a bit uneasy, and I totally get it. But think about it like this. Spark is basically like
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hiring your own personal assistant. And I'm sure you would agree. If you hired a personal assistant and then you just sat there overlooking every single task that they did, well, then you'd kind of be missing the whole point. No, the whole
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reason you hire someone like that is that they take the load off of you. And that is exactly why right at the start of this video, I told you to go and connect your calendar and all of your
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other apps because that is what makes this personal assistant good at its job. So, after a couple weeks of using this, here is how I've got it working for me.
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Every night before I go to bed, it's going to go through my entire inbox while I'm asleep. And that way, by the time that I wake up, it's taken everything that came in and actually turned it into a summary sitting inside
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a Google Doc. That way, I just grab my coffee and I spend my morning going through what's priority and what's not instead of having to go through every single email one by one. Now, you might not be getting emails at all hours like
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me. But let's say you've got a lot on your plate this week. That is when you sit down, you give Spark the full list of everything that you need to get done and ask it to prioritize it. It's going
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to go ahead and block out time on your calendar for each one so that way you can just do the work instead of trying to juggle it all in your head. Or let's say your inbox is full of hundreds and
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hundreds of emails. just ask Gemini to go through them and clean it up for you.
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And if you want to push this a bit further, Spark can work directly on your laptop, too. If you're anything like me, your desktop is a complete mess. You've got files and folders you haven't touched in months, if not years. You can
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literally just tell Spark to go in there, sort it, categorize all of it, and a few minutes later, you come back to a clean desktop. Now, look, I want to put one caveat here, okay? Because I don't want you to come back to me
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saying, "Hey, Spark's deleted all my important files." AI has gotten good these days, really good, but I'm not sure it's at the point that I trusted with everything. So, let's say you have a folder with your banking information,
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medical records, anything like that. Just move it somewhere else safe first and then let Gemini work the rest. All right, so last one on the list. Tip number 10 is deep research, but we're going to do something a little different
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with it here, and I'm going to get into that in just a second. You've probably got a rough idea what this is by now.
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It's when you get AI to go off and pull together a full research report on whatever it is that you've asked it and it's genuinely useful, okay? But you've got to know how to properly use it. If you are not specific about what you
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actually want out of it, you're just going to get a whole lot of nonsense back and you would have burned a big chunk of your usage getting there. So before I even run the research, I get Gemini to help me build the prompt
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first. I give it a bit of context on what I'm trying to do and then I tell it to ask me as many questions as it needs before we go anywhere near the actual research. And the results come back
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noticeably better since I started doing it this way. But look, you already know that AI can go ahead and do the research. That's nothing new, right?
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What we're doing here is taking it one step further. Now, once that report's done, we're actually going to pair it with something called Gemini Notebook.
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Now, if you haven't come across it yet, they also sometimes call it Notebook LM.
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It's depending on where you look. Google can't seem to really settle on a name for it. But the point is, all you need to do is drop your report straight into it. Then you're going to click the notebook icon in the top right. It's
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going to open up a new tab. Once again, it doesn't cost you anything extra either. It's already sitting in your subscription. Once you're in there, it can feel a little overwhelming at first.
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There's quite a bit going on in there. You have audio overviews, flashcards, mind maps, quizzes, full written reports, the whole lot. That alone probably I can make a whole dedicated video on, but that's not what we're going to do today. The one I want to
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show you here is the audio overview. So, let's say you've pulled together all this research. You're going to click into the audio overview. You're going to pick your format. I would probably start with deep dive if I wanted the full
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explanation, but brief critique and debate are also useful depending on what you're trying to do. Then, you're going to pick your length, and you're going to pick which source it's actually pulling from. And what it spits out on the other
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end is basically a podcast episode built entirely off of your own research that you can just put on whenever you want.
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So, I'll actually put it on if I'm going for a run or going to the gym or let's say out on a long drive. It's basically another way for me to get the information into my head. Once again, I
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know that not all of you are students. I mean, I'm not. But even if reading is just not your thing or you're trying to get some sort of certification or become an expert on a topic, this is genuinely
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very useful. And I would put it near the top of your list. So, I'll actually get my team to put up a 10-second clip of what it made for me.
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Yeah, that is the exact problem that this research blueprint we're doing a deep dive into today tries to solve.
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It's um it's basically a rigorous treasure map. Now look, that was only 10 seconds, but I hope you kind of get the idea, right?
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This is actually quite insane. So on its own, deep research basically just hands you a big wall of text, whereas notebooks is what actually turns it into something that is a lot more approachable that you're actually going to sit down and use or in my case, just
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something I can put on and listen to. Those are the 10 tips that I found useful when using Gemini. But I've got to be a little bit honest with you here for a minute. Like I said right at the
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start, Gemini is in a unique spot because Google owns it and Google owns most of what you're already using. And there is genuine upside to that, okay?
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It's right there in your Gmail, in your docs, everywhere you work. It's good across the board. But that's exactly the problem. It's good across the board and not great at any one thing because it feels like Google got so focused on
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getting Gemini into everything, they've gone very wide with it. Okay, Gemini is in Gmail, Doc, Sheets, Search, Chrome on your phone, literally everywhere. But going wide doesn't automatically mean going deep and making it exceptional at one thing. And here's where I personally
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think they've fallen a bit short at the moment. And you can see it. It's changed so much over the last few months that it just doesn't feel ready. And that is the trap with all these generic AI tools.
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The wider you go, the more that you try to do, the more average the whole thing gets. It ends up being fine at everything instead of brilliant at just one thing. And for most of what we covered today, fine is enough. It's
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going to tie to your inbox. It's going to teach you something. It's going to sort your files. little fixes that take some weight off of your day, but that's not the stuff that changes your life.
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What actually does change your life is having something specialized, something built to go deep on one area and really deliver there, whether that's your health, your relationships, or your income. So, if you are after real change in one part of your life, not just the
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surface level stuff, then I'm running an event called the Side Hustle Summit. It runs from the 6th to the 13th of September, live over the course of 5 days, and it's completely free to join.
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I'm going to show you how AI can help you build a side hustle without showing your face, without any money upfront, and without any experience going into it. And to top it all off, I'm bringing my own billion-dollar mentor with me,
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someone who's helped other people generate over $10 billion tracked online. So, if that sounds like you, come join us. There's going to be a link in the description to sign up. And before you go, remember that MacBook I
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mentioned at the start. If you want to win it, drop a comment and let me know which one of these 10 tips you found most useful. But until then, as always, I'm watching from afar, and I'm rooting for you.
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