The CORRECT way to use Google Gemini

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In this tutorial Jeff Su walks through using Google Bard (Google’s AI assistant, as named throughout the transcript) ‘correctly.’ Setup: enable dark theme and real-time responses, then under Extensions turn on Google Workspace and YouTube (personal accounts only; he says extensions weren’t yet available for Google business accounts) and use the @ shortcut to query Gmail, Drive, Docs, and YouTube. Workspace use cases: @Gmail surfaces analyst-report emails mentioning Spotify earnings and finds flight confirmation emails from the year without labels or search operators; @Drive handles vague requests like finding SAT prep PDFs from decades ago; @Docs can analyze a named document — e.g. his first-year self-assessment — and return the top three takeaways, and can pick the most recent file when a timeframe is given. Image upload: pasting a chart and prompting Bard to act as a senior business analyst with over 20 years of experience yields key takeaways; pasting a screenshot of a table locked in a PDF returns the data in table format, exportable to Google Sheets in one click — something he claims saves him hours every week; and Bard can reverse-engineer the text prompt behind an AI-generated image. PDFs can’t be uploaded directly, but he gives two workarounds: paste a link to a hosted PDF, or upload the PDF to Google Drive and query it with @Google Drive. For YouTube, he analyzes a PopCorners ad he cites as having over 5 million views, 250,000 likes, and over 6,000 comments, and distills a 2-hour podcast into top takeaways plus five actionable steps so he only watches a 10-to-15-minute segment. He also covers Google’s default starter prompts, response modifiers (shorter, longer, simpler, casual, professional), the Google fact-check button with green/yellow highlighting, viewing alternate drafts, voice input/output, sharing chats, and pinning good prompts for reuse.

Key takeaways

• Enable the Google Workspace and YouTube extensions (personal accounts) and use the @ shortcut to search Gmail, Drive, and Docs with natural-language requests instead of search operators.
• Ask @Docs to analyze a specific named document and return top takeaways; adding a timeframe makes Bard use the most recently updated file.
• Pasting a screenshot of a non-editable table and asking for table format lets you export the data to Google Sheets in one click.
• PDFs can’t be uploaded directly — either paste a link to a hosted PDF or upload it to Google Drive and query it with @Google Drive.
• Use the fact-check button, alternate drafts, and response-length/style modifiers to vet and reshape answers, and pin prompts that produced high-quality outputs.

Episode details: published January 23, 2024 · 9:57 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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