Five Minutes of Setup, Once

Most people sign up for an AI assistant, start typing, and never touch any settings. You start with a blank prompt, without any instructions. The end result is an AI assistant that gives you mediocre answers, and you might think that is all that AI can do. There is SO much more it can do, and it only takes FIVE minutes to set you up for success.

Seven steps, in order, with exactly where to click. I run these systems in Claude, so that is what the guide walks through, but every one of these settings exists in ChatGPT, CoPilot and Gemini under a different name.