Nov 2024, [email protected]

This is a friction log. For many more friction logs, see Friction logs, including ChatGPT (2023) and related ones like:

• Notion AI assistant for writing (2024)
• Notion AI with Q&A (2023)
• Notion AI assistant (2023)
• Perplexity AI (2023)
• Claude (2023)

Setup

I am reading Guiding Creative Talent and I have some notes with takeaways so far.

I heard ChatGPT has a new writing feature and I want to try it.

Below is the quick post I got from feeding some of those notes to ChatGPT with canvas: Risk-takers decide faster

Takeaways

There is a lot of promise in canvas:

• 🟢 The first draft is already ok. I fed it my notes with “Help me write a short blogpost around these ideas”. Even before reading the first draft, I am already impressed:
• 🌟 🟢 The Suggest Edits and the UI are surprisingly great
• 🌟 🟢 Adjust the length is awesome. The Shorter version did it almost perfectly and showed me how much cruft there was still in the post. Again, I wish I could’ve accepted partial changes. It cut a couple of sentences that I thought were important.

Basic ergonomic problems will prevent me from seriously using this again for writing:

• 💀 🛑 The undo / redo stack in the regular editor with CMD + Z and CMD + Y is only one level deep. Sadly this is unacceptable to actually write in this format.
• 💀 🛑 I tried again by selecting the entire paragraph with and “shorten” and it failed again. What seemed like a transitory bug is now an impasse after three attempts. Even after I edit the paragraph myself, it seems cursed and I can’t make changes to it.