Beginner
Make a reply warmer without changing your answer.
Try two tones, keep your boundaries, and check that a polite rewrite has not made a new promise.
Try the guide →Something useful. One small step.
Start with an everyday task, or take a closer look at prompts and structured work. Each guide uses fictional or non-sensitive information and gives you a way to check the result.
Follow a complete worked example.
Start with a fictional source and compare it with a checked editorial answer. Work through a notice summary, or check a four-row table. Both include a wrong example to repair and work without an AI account.
7 practical guides
Beginner guides
Familiar tasks, clear prompts, and a small check you can do yourself.
Beginner
Learn a small skill, one practice turn at a time.
Give AI a rule to teach, ask it to wait for your attempt, and check your work against the rule.
Try the guide →Beginner
Turn a notice into a useful summary.
Practice pulling out the details you need while keeping missing information visible.
Try the guide →Beginner
Check one AI answer, from claim to source.
A small routine for deciding whether a confident sentence has enough evidence behind it.
Try the guide →Beginner
Build a simple week plan from your own notes.
Let AI organize a few tasks, then check the time, missing details, and room to breathe.
Try the guide →Beginner
Learn an unfamiliar word without getting buried in jargon.
Ask for a small explanation, test your understanding, and check the part that matters.
Try the guide →Beginner
Make a tiny story game with AI.
A playful experiment in giving directions, taking turns, and keeping control of the story.
Try the guide →2 practical guides
Intermediate guides
Repeatable tests and structured outputs for readers ready to inspect the details.
Intermediate
Compare two prompts with a small, fixed test.
Write the checks first, change one part of the prompt, and keep every result—including the awkward ones.
Try the guide →Intermediate
Turn messy notes into a table you can check.
Choose the columns, distinguish zero from missing, and preserve conflicting information instead of guessing.
Try the guide →Choose a task. Shape a prompt. Check the result.
Print and keep
Keep a checking card
Three one-page reminders, available as web text and printable PDFs.
Choose a card →Before you begin
Should AI do this task?
Compare approaches for six fictional tasks, including simpler tools and asking first.
Explore the choices →Interactive browser workshop
Repair your own prompt
Work with your own practice idea, inspect the revision, and shape a practice prompt you can copy.
Open the workshop →