Building Your Productivity Stack

Your productivity stack is the combination of tools and habits that power your work. ChatGPT can enhance your entire stack, not just individual tasks.

The Modern Productivity Stack

A typical knowledge worker's stack:

Category	Tools	ChatGPT Enhancement
Communication	Email, Slack, Teams	Draft messages, summarize threads
Documents	Word, Docs, Notion	Drafting, editing, organizing
Spreadsheets	Excel, Sheets	Formulas, analysis, insights
Presentations	PowerPoint, Slides	Outlines, content, speaker notes
Project Management	Asana, Monday, Trello	Task breakdown, updates, planning
Notes	OneNote, Evernote, Notion	Summarizing, organizing, retrieving
Calendar	Outlook, Google Calendar	Meeting prep, scheduling optimization

Designing Your Stack

Audit Your Current Tools

Identifying Gaps

Tool-by-Tool Integration

Project Management + ChatGPT

Note-Taking + ChatGPT

Team Communication + ChatGPT

Building Workflows Across Tools

The Information Workflow

The Communication Workflow

The Creation Workflow

Optimizing for Speed

Quick Capture System

Fast Retrieval System

Automation Opportunities

Identifying Automation

Connecting Tools

Measuring Productivity

Time Tracking Analysis

Productivity Metrics

Your Personal System

System Documentation

System Maintenance

Practice Exercise

Course Conclusion

Congratulations! You've completed "ChatGPT at Work: 10x Your Productivity."

What You've Learned

1. Setting up safely - Security, privacy, and company policies
2. Email mastery - Drafting, responding, handling difficult situations
3. Meeting efficiency - Prep, notes, action items
4. Document creation - Reports, templates, editing
5. Data analysis - Understanding data, formulas, insights
6. Presentations - Outlines, content, delivery
7. Research skills - Finding, summarizing, verifying information
8. Problem-solving - Brainstorming, structured thinking, decisions
9. Learning acceleration - Roadmaps, explanations, practice
10. Workflow building - Daily habits, templates, automation
11. Tool integration - Office, Google, and your complete stack

Your Next Steps

1. Pick 2-3 areas - Don't try to change everything at once
2. Build templates - Save what works
3. Create habits - Make usage automatic
4. Track results - Know what you're gaining
5. Keep learning - AI tools keep improving

The 10x Promise

You won't 10x every task. But you will:

• Save 2-4 hours weekly on routine work
• Produce higher quality output
• Handle more with less stress
• Free up time for high-value work

That compounds into transformative productivity over time.

Key Takeaways

1. Tools work together - Build a system, not just use individual apps
2. Design workflows - Think end-to-end, not task-by-task
3. Document your system - What's written down gets done
4. Measure what matters - Track productivity improvements
5. Iterate constantly - Your system should evolve
6. Automate repetition - Save thinking for what requires it
7. ChatGPT is a multiplier - It enhances everything you do

You now have the knowledge to transform your productivity. The rest is practice.