AI in 10 Minutes a Day

This course starts at the real beginning: what a chat agent is, where its answers come from, and why fluent text can still be wrong. In the first arc, learners make a safe first request, learn task, context, format, and constraints, understand chat history and memory limits, and establish a small daily habit.

From there, 15-to-20-minute lessons turn AI into practical, reviewable work. Learners extract decisions from notes, draft accurate emails, revise for voice, plan around constraints, build reusable prompts and checklists, and use AI to learn without skipping retrieval or reflection. Research lessons teach current-source search, claim checking, disagreement, research notes, and source-checked briefs.

The course then moves into files and structured work: privacy preflight, documents, reports, forms, PDFs, meeting packs, spreadsheets, budgets, scenario planners, formulas, charts, and verification. Every exercise uses fictional or sanitized material, keeps unknowns visible, and names the human check before anything is used.

The final arc turns successful work into a personal system. Learners organize prompts and templates, chain a workflow by hand, use AI as a thinking partner, understand supervised agents, delegate only low-risk tasks, and define clear red lines. The capstone is a Personal AI Playbook with approved inputs, a reusable instruction, source and privacy rules, a human owner, manual fallback, weekly review, version history, and stop conditions.

No paid feature is required: each core exercise has a standard chat path or complete manual fallback. The 48-lesson core takes about 12 to 16 hours of active learning; “10 Minutes” remains a daily-habit promise, while typical lessons are honestly listed as 15 to 20 minutes.

• Start from zero, build a safe first habitLessons 1–8
• Use chat agents for everyday work and learningLessons 9–16
• Research and accurate informationLessons 17–24
• Documents, PDFs, and communicationLessons 25–32
• Spreadsheets and practical planningLessons 33–40
• Personal systems, supervised agents, and capstoneLessons 41–48

1. 1. Meet Your AI AssistantCurrent lesson
2. 2. How a Large Language Model Produces TextNot started
3. 3. What a Chat Agent Can and Cannot DoNot started
4. 4. Your First Useful PromptNot started
5. 5. Prompt Anatomy: Task, Context, Format, ConstraintsNot started
6. 6. Context, Chat History, Memory, and Context WindowNot started
7. 7. Steer the Conversation, Do Not Restart ItNot started
8. 8. Your First Safe Daily AI HabitNot started
9. 9. Summarize and Extract What MattersNot started
10. 10. Turn Notes into a Clear EmailNot started
11. 11. Rewrite in Your VoiceNot started
12. 12. Make a Plan You Can FollowNot started
13. 13. Compare Choices Without Giving Away the DecisionNot started
14. 14. Turn a Good Prompt into a Reusable TemplateNot started
15. 15. Build a Checklist or Simple ProcedureNot started
16. 16. Use AI to Learn, Not to Skip LearningNot started
17. 17. Search, Model Memory, and Current InformationNot started
18. 18. Ask a Researchable QuestionNot started
19. 19. Search with SourcesNot started
20. 20. Check a Claim: Source, Date, Evidence, ContextNot started
21. 21. Compare Sources and Handle DisagreementNot started
22. 22. Keep a Research NoteNot started
23. 23. Write a Source-Checked BriefNot started
24. 24. Research Challenge: Make a Low-Stakes DecisionNot started
25. 25. Privacy and File PreflightNot started
26. 26. Turn Raw Notes into a Structured DocumentNot started
27. 27. Build a Simple ReportNot started
28. 28. Improve a Letter, Email, or FormNot started
29. 29. Work with PDFs, Images, and Scans CarefullyNot started
30. 30. Edit AI Like an EditorNot started
31. 31. Make a Meeting or Project PackNot started
32. 32. Document Challenge: Draft, Check, DeliverNot started
33. 33. Spreadsheet Basics for AI UsersNot started
34. 34. Build a Simple Budget WorksheetNot started
35. 35. Build a Savings-Goal Scenario PlannerNot started
36. 36. Build a Household, Event, or Travel PlannerNot started
37. 37. Turn Data into a Table or ChartNot started
38. 38. Ask AI to Explain or Improve a FormulaNot started
39. 39. Check a Spreadsheet Before You Use ItNot started
40. 40. Planning Challenge: Build and Test a TemplateNot started
41. 41. Create Your AI Home BaseNot started
42. 42. Build Your Prompt and Template LibraryNot started
43. 43. Chain a Workflow by HandNot started
44. 44. Use AI as a Thinking PartnerNot started
45. 45. What Is an Agent?Not started
46. 46. Delegate a Low-Risk Task SafelyNot started
47. 47. When Not to Use AINot started
48. 48. Capstone: Your Personal AI Operating SystemNot started