3 AI Habits So Powerful It Feels Like Cheating
About this video
Jeff Su shares three low-effort habits to reduce the friction of using AI so he does not default to older workflows. First, the everywhere AI shortcut: install a launcher — Alfred (paid) or Raycast (free) on Mac, PowerToys on Windows — press a global shortcut like Option+Space, and use custom web searches with dynamic query URLs to jump straight into a new ChatGPT or Claude chat with a prompt prefilled; Gemini has no dynamic URL, so he uses a static URL workaround that opens an empty chat, and the same approach opens pages like Claude Projects. He also notes a shortcut variant with web search enabled and, for paid users, adding ’think hard about this’ and defaulting to thinking mode. Second, text expanders: in Alfred Snippets, Raycast, or the free Windows app Beef Text, save frequent prompts behind short triggers — he says he uses a clear-and-concise writing prompt over 20 times a day — with bracketed options to adjust intensity on the fly, and he recommends saving three to five workflow-specific prompts and using them daily for two weeks. Third, the prompt multiply method: for high-stakes tasks only, paste a lazy prompt into AI and ask it to generate improved prompt variations incorporating the six components from his prompt formula — task, context, example, persona, format, and tone — illustrated with a mortgage refinancing example, then save the multiplier prompt itself in a text expander. As a bonus, he embeds AI triggers where he already works, such as linking prompts from his Notion prompts database into meeting notes and calendar reminders.
Key takeaways
- Set up a global launcher shortcut (Alfred, Raycast, or PowerToys) to open AI chats with prompts prefilled
- Use text expanders to store frequent prompts behind short triggers, with options you can adjust on the fly
- Save three to five workflow-specific prompts and practice them daily to build the habit
- For high-stakes tasks, use prompt multiply: have AI generate better prompt variations using task, context, example, persona, format, and tone
- Embed AI triggers in your existing workspace — link prompts from a database into notes and calendar reminders
Episode details: published August 27, 2025 · 10:50 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Jeff Su’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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