What Should I Ask ChatGPT? Start With These Useful Tasks

Choose a task you can judge, then ask ChatGPT to organize, draft, compare, or explain it.

Ask ChatGPT to help with work you can evaluate: organize rough notes, draft a message, compare options using your criteria, explain an unfamiliar idea, or turn a goal into next steps.

Good starter tasks have a clear finish line. You know what a usable email, plan, or summary should contain.

Avoid asking AI to make important decisions for you. Ask it to expose options, questions, or tradeoffs, then use your judgment.

Compare two options

Weak: Which laptop is best?

Improved: Compare these two laptops for travel, video calls, and light photo editing. Use battery life, weight, ports, and price as the criteria. Put the comparison in a table.

The criteria make the comparison relevant instead of generic.

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