🔧 How to use Gemini to find a plumber or book a doctor
I’ll show you how to connect Gemini with Angi, Zocdoc, Ticketmaster and Pandora, plus the prompt that handles the searching and the privacy trade-off hiding in the permissions.
I’ll show you how to connect Gemini with Angi, Zocdoc, Ticketmaster and Pandora, plus the prompt that handles the searching and the privacy trade-off hiding in the permissions.
You know that pile of cash sitting in your checking account doing nothing? There’s a prompt in here that pulls every current savings rate, minimum and withdrawal penalty into one table, including the teaser rates that quietly drop after three months.
The Wall Street Journal caught the $20,000 NEO being driven by a remote human operator. The $8,000 Isaac 1 is “autonomous” until it gets stuck and a person takes over. And the $30-an-hour robot maid in San Francisco is watched by an operator on every visit, under a contract that hands the company your home footage forever. Four house rules before you let one in the door.
Round 2 of our most-loved format. The airline seat map is a sales floor, not an inventory list. The hotel’s 800 number can’t help you, but the front desk can. Plus, the $15 modem rental fix, the $12 dryer trick, the help desk’s sacred order and the photographer’s one-second habit.
You buy electricity from a regional market, and data centers are hitting every one. A power plant auction in the East hit a record $16.4 billion, and families in seven states paid $4.3 billion to connect data centers to the grid. Bills jumped 7.1% last year, double inflation. Four fixes inside.
Your bank app is no help when it files wine, dog food and a rotisserie chicken under groceries. Paste last month’s transactions into any chatbot and get your five biggest money leaks ranked by annual cost. Two prompts inside: one to find the leaks, one to cut them.
Custom Instructions, Memory and Temporary Chat are already in your ChatGPT app. Here’s the 60-second setup for each, the instructions to paste and the privacy catch on incognito chats.
Trades are booming while AI panic spreads. A SpaceX welder’s $28/hr job turned into $880K stock. Electricians building data centers earn up to $260K debt-free. The FAA hired 2,000+ gamers as $144K controllers. No degree needed, just paid apprenticeships.
The ugly stock numbers are technically disclosed and practically invisible. Here are the exact prompts I paste before buying a single share, including the one that makes AI argue against the investment. Plus the five terms to search in the 10-K yourself.
Loyal customers pay the most. Here’s the AI script trick that turns a 10-minute call into hundreds a year, free.
Ralph is saving $875 a year. Marta, $675. Jon, $1,095. Same towers, same 5G signal, way smaller bill. Here’s how Consumer Cellular pulls it off and the two catches to watch for.
Twenty family facts, like nicknames, old addresses and that one boat story nobody lets go of, are all AI needs to write the clues. Free sites turn them into printable games in about 15 minutes flat, no cost, no login.
Your savings account might be earning $1 a year on $10,000 while an FDIC-insured online bank pays $400 on the same money, with the same government insurance. A fintech collapse once froze $112 million in customer deposits, so here’s how to verify a bank is real before you move a dime.
Turn your skill list into gig titles people actually search for, plus a pricing prompt that demands comparable listings with working links.
Zillow is a connected app on both Gemini and ChatGPT, so you can find listings and schedule tours just by asking. Here’s the 60-second setup, the prompt to try first and the privacy catch.
A vintage Pyrex dish, the kind sitting in a million cabinets, sold for nearly $6,000. Before you donate that box, photograph the item, let AI identify and price it, then confirm on eBay’s sold listings. Free appraiser, already in your pocket.
A reader named Julie asked how to reach her mom with music. The science is real: The brain’s music regions are among the last dementia touches. One playlist, built from the songs of her mom’s youth, can open a door for a few minutes at a time. Here’s exactly how to make one.
Techs know the “dead” TV usually isn’t dead, the phone that won’t charge just needs a toothpick and the check engine light can be decoded before you ever call a mechanic. Five trade secrets pros use at home but rarely mention at the counter.
📝 This copy-and-paste prompt helps you review expense ratios, admin fees, overlapping funds, and cheaper plan options before your next meeting.
Google’s free Storybook tool takes one photo of your kid’s pencil drawing and turns it into a 10-page illustrated book, drawn in their own style, that reads itself aloud. Two minutes, no design skills, print it as a PDF keepsake.