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Effortless AI: ChatGPT Hygiene Essentials

teacher avatar Mark Samples, Writer, Musician, Musicologist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction: Chat GPT Hygiene

      2:24

    • 2.

      Course Project

      2:01

    • 3.

      Custom Instructions

      5:40

    • 4.

      Start a Fresh Chat

      2:44

    • 5.

      Rename Your Chats

      4:55

    • 6.

      Manage Your Memory

      5:48

    • 7.

      Start a Prompt Vault

      3:41

    • 8.

      Organize with Projects

      5:24

    • 9.

      Use Temporary Chat

      3:13

    • 10.

      Your Hygiene Routine

      2:39

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About This Class

You brush your teeth. You shower. You close your browser tabs (sometimes).

But no one’s taught you how to clean up ChatGPT—until now.

Because it’s so new, most people are still winging it.

That’s your unfair advantage.

These 7 simple hygiene habits turn ChatGPT from cluttered and confusing into streamlined and smart.

Whether you're a creator, entrepreneur, or solo professional—if ChatGPT is part of your workflow, this class is your new secret weapon.

What You Will Learn

By the end of this class, you’ll have a clean, customized, high-performance ChatGPT setup—plus the habits to keep it that way.

✅ How to make ChatGPT think and talk like you with Custom Instructions
✅ When to start a new chat (and when not to) for fewer hallucinations
✅ The 2-second habit to find your best chats faster
✅ How to declutter ChatGPT’s memory without losing important context
✅ The simple system for saving your top-performing prompts
✅ How to use Projects to organize your work like a pro
✅ When to go “ghost mode” with Temporary Chat for privacy or play

Why You Should Take This Class

Most people treat ChatGPT like a one-off tool: prompt in, hope for the best.

But once you start practicing ChatGPT hygiene, everything changes.

You get better answers, cleaner threads, and faster workflows—without needing advanced prompt engineering or chasing every AI trend.

These aren’t tactics. They’re habits.

And once they click into place, ChatGPT becomes a powerful extension of your brain.

If you create, teach, write, or build—this class will help you move faster with less friction, and finally get the results you know are possible with AI.

Who This Class is For

This class is for creative professionals, solo founders, educators, content creators—anyone using ChatGPT to think, write, create, or build.

No prior AI experience required.

Just a browser, a ChatGPT account, and the curiosity to level up.

Materials / Resources

You’ll need:

  • A free or paid ChatGPT account
  • Optional: Notion or Google Docs to build your prompt vault
  • A few minutes per lesson

You’ll get:

✅ The Course PDF, packed with quick-reference guides and best practices

✅ Templates for naming, prompting, and organizing

✅ A downloadable class project to help you lock in the habits

Let’s clean up your ChatGPT. Your future self will thank you.

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Mark Samples

Writer, Musician, Musicologist

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Hi, I'm Mark. I'm a writer, a musician, and a professional musicologist.

A lot of creatives--writers, musicians, filmmakers, artists--struggle to consistently tap into their creative flow. I create courses that help them get clarity and make a plan, so that they can summon and harness their creative energies.

I'm on a mission to help artists (writers, musicians, filmmakers, illustrators, graphic designers) gain access to time-tested creative principles and processes to help them make great art, consistently. I do this through my teaching here on Skillshare, through my teaching at a U.S. university, and on my website at www.mark-samples.com.

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1. Introduction: Chat GPT Hygiene: Seems like every creator is using AI right now, but I have a way for you to get an unfair advantage, and it's probably not what you expect. How? By building good hygiene? That's right. We're talking AI hygiene. Just like brushing your teeth every day or taking a shower, there are small repeatable habits that you can use in chat GPT that will keep it running clean and fast for you. The problem is, most people don't take the time to do this. They just use the product, use the product, use the product without cleaning and tidying it up over time. That's kind of like not brushing your teeth for a week. It's kind of gross, right? Well, in this course, I'm going to teach you seven habits that will help you upgrade your chat GPT hygiene so that chat GPT can work faster and more powerful for you without doing anything fancy. In this course, which is part of my effortless AI series of courses, I will teach you the seven essential chat GPT hygiene habits. I'll teach you how to train chat GPT to think like you with custom instructions, when to start fresh and why it can clean up so many weird issues that you have in chat GPT. I'll teach you how and when to rename your chats. There's a specific moment when your brain should trigger you to say, I'm going to rename my chat right now. I'm going to teach you how to master your memory settings and clean up the memories that chat GPT saves about your chats. I'll teach you how to save your best prompts and why and how to start a simple prompt vault. I'll teach you also how to organize your work and your roles through hat GPT'sPjects feature, and I will teach you when and how to start temporary chats in chat GPT. This course is short, simple, and full of quick wins. All you need is a chat GPT account and a creative brain. By the end, you'll have a clean, confident system so that chat GPT works the way you wish it would without having to do any fancy or complex actions. It's like finding a $20 bill in the pocket of last winter's coat. You didn't know it was there, but you're sure glad you found it. So if you're ready to start cleaning up your chat GPT game and taking it to the next level, you're in the right place. Let's get started. 2. Course Project: Let's make your learning more useful. I have a simple but powerful course project for you and it's to create your very own chat GPT hygiene stack. It's your personal system of habits, settings, and go to prompts that make AI easier, faster and more useful for you. Let me walk you through it. You'll see everything right here on the screen. Step number one is complete all of the lessons. Just watch each short video and try out the small habit that it teaches. Most of them take less than 2 minutes to apply. Step number two, choose your top three to five hygiene habits. Remember, you don't need to use every single strategy. Just start with the ones that give you the biggest win. Step number three is to document your stack, create a simple visual or written list that includes your favorite hygiene habits, any go to prompts that you want to remember, and maybe you jot down your naming formula or memory strategy for chat GPT. Step number four is to share your stack in the project gallery. Upload a screenshot, share a notion page or a Google Doc link, or even just a simple bulleted list. The goal is just to make the stack visible to you at a later time and also share it with us so we can get some inspiration from what you've done. If you need a headstart, I've got you covered. I have a notion template linked in the resources tab that you can just duplicate into your own workspace and then tweak it from there. Have some examples of some hygiene habits that you might consider. I have a place to put some of your go to prompts, and I have some notes on how you might organize your chat GPT workspace all connected to the lessons in the class. Remember, this doesn't have to be fancy, just useful. This is your AI hygiene routine. A few minutes today makes everything run smoother tomorrow. Let's get into the lessons. 3. Custom Instructions: Let's kick things off with a power move. Most people skip right past this, but Chat CPT actually has a secret menu that lets you customize how it acts, thinks, and talks to you. It's called Custom Instructions. This one change makes every future conversation sharper, faster, and way more you. It's not just helpful, it's transformative. Let's check it out. Okay, now, depending on when you're watching this, the exact prompts might look a little different because open AI is always tweaking things. But here's what you're likely to see now. Click on your account, your profile picture, and go to customize hat GPT, and you'll get this dialog box. Prompt number one says, what should hat GPT call you? Start simple, drop your name or your nickname in here. It makes the experience feel more personal, especially when you're bouncing between different chats and roles. Prompt number two is, what do you do? I have just a short bio of myself. I'm a musician, writer, entrepreneur, and professional musicologist. For example, you might say, I'm a solo entrepreneur who writes a weekly newsletter about creativity and builds tools for creators. Or you might say, I'm a music educator, building AI tools and teaching college courses. You might say, I'm a designer who uses a combination of AI and human creativity. To craft new creative experiences. Whatever it makes sense for you here to put, just add a little short bio there. Make it short. Next up, it says, what traits should hat GPT have? This is the idea where you can tell hat GPT to use a particular tone. You can have it formal or chatty, be opinionated, one thing that I would recommend putting in here is to have this line, which is favor truth over affirmation. You'll find that Chat chPT tends to just want to agree with you and make you happy. But this gives it permission to critique you when necessary. I say here, favor truth over affirmation. If the user's thinking has flaws, gaps or questionable assumptions, point them out respectfully. Motivation is welcome, but clarity and intellectual honesty come first. Then I have a couple default roles here that are just roles that I typically use. The idea here is these are global instructions. Make sure you want these to apply to all of your chats. Don't put anything too specific in. Now you can also add certain characteristics such as chatty, witty, straight shooting. I just leave these alone. I don't think they're helpful for me, particularly right now. If you want to choose one, you might choose straight shooting at encouraging and go from there. If we scroll down, the next prompt is anything else GPT should know about you. If we click on the information here, you can share things that you want it to know, I love hiking and jazz, I'm vegetarian. I like Wes Anderson films, those sorts of things. Here I just put some information, things that I'm doing. I'm interested in creativity, music history, entrepreneurship. I'm writing a book, I have a startup and basically I have some instructions on how I want it to respond to me. Especially frameworks on how I like to write. The success principle from a book called Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath. But you could really use this for any information that you think would be useful and you think hat GPT should know, or you can just leave it blank. That's always an option there. There are a couple advanced things here. I recommend leaving all of these on, but if you're never going to use it to code, you can deselect that. I'm still not sure what I think about the Canvas feature, which is where Chat GPT writes in a document like form, but I've left it checked for now. When you're done going through this, all you have to do is click Save. I haven't changed anything, so it won't let me save if I change one of these settings, I can then click Save. Great. The great thing about these custom instructions is that you can change them at any time. They are not permanent and you can change them anytime you start a new project or take on a new role or a new focus. Or if you find that it gets too narrow, you can loosen up your global custom instructions to catch more of your use cases. Here's your challenge for right now. Go to Chat GPT, open up the custom instructions panel and just fill out the prompts. Don't think too hard about this. Just take 2 minutes and do your best to give it a little bit of information and you should start noticing improvements right away. That's it for this lesson. This one change will make all of your future chats, more professional and more personal. Okay, be sure to grab the PDF for this course. It's in the resources area and it has resources for this lesson. Next up, we're going to hit the reset button and learn when and why to start a fresh chat in hat GPT. Let's go. 4. Start a Fresh Chat: A two in our essential chat GPT hygiene is this, don't be afraid to start new chats. Have you ever been chatting with chat GPT, and you've been chatting for a while and then all of a sudden, the answers seem to degrade in their precision? Well, you might be carrying old baggage from previously in the chat, especially if your topic has changed as the chat has gone along. Here's the good news. If you watch the previous lesson, you know how to set up custom instructions in chat GPT. So chat GPT will not forget everything about you if you start a new chat. That means you can confidently start a new chat knowing that it will keep your setup. So when in doubt, start fresh with a new chat. A new chat is like a clean slate for your conversation. It doesn't carry any residue or any baggage from previously in that chat. Also, starting a new chat reduces hallucinations immediately. So when should you start a new chat, and when should you stick with your old chat? Well, if you download the PDF resource for this course, you can see, I have a table here of some examples. If you're getting weird or off topic replies, you want to start fresh. If you want clean logic, if you're switching to a totally new project or task, if you've changed your mind and maybe you want to go in a different direction than the one that you thought you were going to go with that chat, you can start a new chat. If you want to reduce hallucinations, if you've updated your custom instructions, these are all situations in which you might want to start a fresh chat. Or if things are just getting pretty long, go ahead and start a fresh chat. Now, there are some situations where you want to actually stick with the chat that you have and that's beneficial to you. If you're midway through a multi step workflow, maybe sticking with a chat would be good. If you're building on past answers, debugging a long prompt or process, or if you're iterating and refining a single creative idea, or let's say you're in the middle of a really long research project, that might help. It might be helped if you keep the chat. There's another answer if you're doing really long and complex research projects, for instance, and that's to use the projects feature, which we'll cover in a future lesson. That's habit number two. Start a fresh chat when needed. You already have custom instruction set up, so this only takes a few seconds to do, and it makes everything cleaner. If you want an easy way to remember these concepts, don't forget to download the course PDF resource where you can see that table for reference later. In the next lesson, we'll tackle the issue of mystery chat names and how taking a few seconds to rename them can save you tons of mental load. See you then. 5. Rename Your Chats: Time for habit three, which is this rename your chats immediately as soon as they give you value. Have you ever had a really valuable chat with Chat GPT in the past where you created some resource or developed some core idea, and then you want to go back and find it and you just scroll through your chats endlessly, some very long chats and it's extremely difficult to find that one idea. Well, Chat GPT does a pretty good job of automatically naming your chats, but here's the catch. It names them based on how you start the chat, not where you end up. Sometimes maybe you've had this experience, you start going down one path end up pivoting into something that is very valuable, but you didn't expect. Here's the fix to save you from all of that searching. As soon as a chat gives you value, rename it right then immediately. No tomorrow, not in 15 minutes, rename it right away. Ask yourself, if I needed to find this again, this valuable table or this valuable concept. What would I search for? And then go to the chat name and rename it with that. Here are some examples. You might be coming up with newsletter ideas, and so you might title it Newsletter Ideas, July, or you might be coming up with content ideas for social media posts and specifically be developing images for those posts. So you might say, social media posts, dash images. Maybe you're brainstorming your brand colors or your logo or icon. Name it with something that will help you find that again. Let me show you a real world example and a little trick that you can use from my own hat GPT history. So if you go to hat GPT, and then you look at the sidebar for all of the names, I have lots of different chats in here, and this one was quite a long chat because I was working on an app that I am developing called surface Luck. And the app itself is really just a tracker for you to track the goodwill that you put into the world and then be aware of the the ways that that luck comes back to you. But the idea was really I started out just kind of thinking in general about the app, and by the end of the conversation, I was really honed in on wanting to add an administrative panel to this app so that I could track users and make sure that everything was working for them. So really, the way that this chat was auto labeled is called surface Luck feedback, but that does not tell me that won't tell me in the future that this is where I developed the Admin panel and the instructions for implementation. What I would do is I would click on the three dots and I would click rename, and then I could rename that chat. But a trick Here's a pro tip that you can put to use right away. And the tip is this, ask hat GPT what you should name this chat. Here's what I've done. I say, summarize the main point or outcome of this chat and give me a good title that uses the Gal plus format naming convention. Now hat GPT will go through this and has actually gone back through this chat and gives me a summary and then gives a suggested title. I'm going to copy that and click Rename, and then I'm going to call this Admin Panel and Implementation Guide. This one has now been popped all the way up to the top of my chats list because I just adjusted it, and that is how I can rename my chats in a smart way so that I can find them later. Here's one more bonus that connects this to our last lesson about starting a new chat. As soon as you get a distinct piece of value from a chat, ask yourself, should I start a new chat and build from there? Oftentimes, if you stack different kinds of valuable resources or insights into a single chat, that can be hard to find later. But whatever you do, when you get value from a chat, rename it immediately and then consider opening a new chat. And that's all there is to it. As soon as you get value from a chat, rename that chat accordingly right away. Here's what you can do right now. Go into Chat GPT and think of the three most valuable chats that you can remember. Go through it and try to rename that chat with something that will help you find it in the future. If you want to, try asking hat GPT to create that name for you. Now, if you really want to put this into practice, don't forget to go to the course PDF. You can see that I have instructions here on how to do this. And I also have some suggested naming conventions for you with that Gal plus format approach and some other tips in there for you. So be sure to check out the PDF. In the next lesson, we'll dive into chat GPT's memory, what it saves, what it gets rid of, and how you can take control. 6. Manage Your Memory: Time for habit number four in our essential chat GPT hygiene, and that is this, master your memory. Hat GPT has a feature called memory, and it's kind of a superpower. But also, if you're not careful, it's kind of a junk drawer. And that's because when it's working, it's amazing. It remembers your name, your business, the projects you're working on, what you care about. But when it's not working, everything seems a bit off. And because like other features in Chat GPT, the memory is managed automatically by Chat GPT. By default, it can get a little messy. So in this lesson, I'm going to give you some simple steps to take control of Chat GPT's memory so that it can work for you. Let's get into it. Okay, step number one is to know what's actually in your memory, and so you need to find the memory settings. Currently, in hat GPT, you do that by going to your profile, clicking settings, and then going to personalization, and then you'll find the memory settings there. In future versions of hat GPT, it might be a little different, but if you poke around, you'll probably find it. Now, first, you need to have the memory feature turned on, and that's referencing saved memories and referencing chat history. I have both of those on. And if you want to look and see exactly what memories Chat GPD has, you can click Manage. And here we see a whole list of all of the memories that have been taken. And these are just developed as I chat. They are being incrementally saved. Okay, so here's one that was just naturally saved. I was writing a commencement speech for my job as a university professor for graduating music majors. And so I wanted to incorporate some stories into my commencement speech drawing from the history of the particular music department where I teach. And so these are things that was useful for that time, but it's no longer useful. And so it's just going to stick in there. And here's the thing. Memories get full, depending on what version of chat GPT, what subscription you have. They get full quickly or they get full more they don't get full so quickly, but they will still fill up. So it is actually quite useful for me to delete this one because I don't need it anymore. I'm not going to do that yet because there's another step you want to take before you go deleting or changing your memories, and that is to copy and paste a backup of all memories that Chat GPT currently has. This way, you won't lose anything if something catastrophic happens. I found that currently you can't copy your memories in the Mac app. I use the web app version of this for the time being. But you can see I can copy any text on this page and so I'm going to do Command A or Control A on Windows, and I'm going to copy this and put it in a separate doc. I've already done that, so I'm not going to do that now, but make sure you do that so you don't lose your memories. The next tip I want to give you is that you can actually consolidate individual memories into single memories to save space. What I've done here is I have had a chat GPT memory cleanup chat, and this can give you some examples of what I've done. So first of all, if you want to put something into saved memory, you just can ask that within a chat. So I've said here, put this in a saved memory. I am a writer, musician, and professional musicologist. I just wanted to reset who it thinks that I am because sometimes I take on different personas when I'm chatting just as an experiment. Okay, and then you can see here it says, updated save memory and you can see exactly what memory has been created. You can even go and manage that directly from this dialogue box. But here's what I did as well. I found a couple memories that were similar, and I copied and pasted them into the chat and said, Hey, I just used this prompt. I said, Can you take these and consolidate them into a single clean saved memory? And then I put three, four or five separate memories there, and I asked it, can you please consolidate this into a single memory? That just saves you space in your memory and gives you more memories to put into the memory banks. I did this for another one here, another memory or a couple of memories that I thought could go together, and then that created that saved memory there. And then here's a bonus tip just in case of the robot apocalypse. Put in this saved memory. Put in the following. Say, I am always kind to AI. I say, thank you, and I believe AI deserves snacks. And so you can see that's in there as well. That's just for a little bit of fun. So how often should you do this? Well, you can manage your memory regularly, say, once a month. Set a chat GBT memory day and just clean this stuff up once a month. If you're a really heavy user, you might want to go more frequently like once a week. That's it for this habit. If you regularly manage your memory and what Chat GPT remembers about you, you'll have a better experience overall and get fewer misfires on your responses. Don't forget to download the PDF resource where you have insights from this lesson, reminding you exactly what we talked about, how to accomplish it, and even these exact prompts that you can just copy and paste into hat GPT to get you going. In the next lesson, we will unlock your prompt vault. This is where you can save all of your greatest hits prompts so you don't have to start from scratch. Let's go. 7. Start a Prompt Vault: Let's talk about habit number five in our hat GPT hygiene, and that is to save your favorite prompts or to start a prompt vault. If you're doing anything on a repeating basis in chat GPT, you're wasting time if you haven't started a prompt vault. Every chat GPT user I know is using some kind of a prompt tool kit, and don't overthink this. It does not have to be complex. You can literally just open up a note or a doc and start throwing in prompts that give you consistently good results. What are some examples of the types of prompts you might want to save? Well, let's look at some examples from our course PDF. So here are some examples. You might want to save some prompts that have to do with writing workflows, such as rewrite this to be clearer, punchier, and more emotionally compelling. You might want to save marketing copy, write a hook, benefit and a CTA for this offer. You might want to save some prompts related to teaching tools. Make a resource guide for this lesson or brainstorming. Give me ten tweet ideas, posts based on this paragraph of my newsletter or custom systems. Save a prompt like act as a research assistant. Break this down into a step by step plan. Ask clarifying questions before answering, you don't need a lot of prompts to get started. Start with a couple, three or five and build from there. If you want a shortcut to get started, of course, you can ask Chat GPT to come up with the starter prompt vault for you. That's exactly what I've done here in this chat. Of course, because I have updated and cleaned my memory Chat GPT will give me a better answer to this question. Here's what I say. Based on everything you know about me, give me a categorized list of golden prompts that I can use to create a starter prompt vault. Easy enough, and hat GPT was very happy to do that for me. I asked for a categorized list so that it can capture the different roles or tasks, and of course, it's telling me about customizing hat GPT. Here are some prompts. For ongoing copilot use, I'm writing a book and it knows that, it gives me some prompts about structuring chapters, testing and tightening arguments, iterative writing. Iterative writing, rather. I love this category that it came up with, which is creative strategy and ideation. Check out this prompt. Give me five unexpected but true insights about a topic that flip common assumptions, use real examples and data if possible. This is the prompt that can be really magical and you want to save those prompts so that you can access them again. Here's a task for this lesson. Start a prompt vault. Make it as simple as possible. Just go in and open a note or maybe a notion page or a Google Doc, whatever you're comfortable with. Go through your hat GPT chats and find a prompt or two that you think you'll use again. Or you can go straight to Chat GPT and ask it to create a starter prompt vault for you, and then you can pick the ones that you want to save. There are also a lot of people online that share their prompts that have been useful for them, so you can do a little searching there as well. Be sure to go to that resource PDF for the course. If you haven't downloaded it already, you can grab some of those prompts that I showed you a little bit earlier. And in the next lesson, we're going to talk about organizing your chats around projects. I think you'll agree projects can be a secret weapon for creative work. Let's go. 8. Organize with Projects: At six is to use projects to organize your work in chat GPT. We've covered custom instructions which apply to all of your chats in chat GPT and our global instructions. But sometimes you're working on individual projects, say you're creating a course or you're working on a creative project, or you're filling a particular role like how you work with clients, and you want specific instructions and specific resources to apply to just that project. Well, that's where the projects feature comes in let's dive into it. Here's how you create a new project in Chat GPT. You go to your hat sidebar and there will be a separate project section. Click on New Project and give it a name. I'm going to call this the creative process Newsletter project, and I'm going to create that project. And once I create that project, now I have a dedicated place for all of my chats around this concept. The creative process newsletter is my newsletter that I send out weekly for creators. And you can tell this is a project because you see this little folder icon here. And once you start with projects, there are a couple of things you should First of all, you can have multiple chats within this project. You can have lots of different chats underneath or in the world of this project. And the way you make this useful on a per project basis is you add some custom instructions for the project and some custom resources. So I can add specific instructions here that pertain just to this project. So I'll paste in here what I want chat GPT to know about this project. And that is this. The creative process newsletter is a weekly email newsletter for creators. I include its mission in there. I include how I want the style of the writing to and then Chat GPT will keep all of this in mind specifically for this project. The other thing you can do that's really useful is to add files to your project context. If I click on this button, Add Files, then I can click on Add Files. Let's say I have this creative process newsletter master document that I want to upload to hat GPT. Well, it's as easy as that, I uploads and now that PDF will be put into the context only of this project, not on all of my other chats outside of it. And what's cool about this is that now you can have specific resources that pertain to a particular project, and they can be referenced throughout. This one is useful because it's a master document about my newsletter, the kinds of things I like to talk about, the mission of the newsletter, and all the other important information there as well. So how do you use projects efficiently and effectively in your own work? Well, I recommend organizing them actually by project or by role or maybe both. This also helps when you're trying to go back and find those valuable chats from the past, you've renamed them as we talked about in a previous lesson, but also this will help organize them by context so you will be able to find that idea again in no time. Now that I have that context, I can start interacting with this project. Let's say I want to brainstorm ten newsletter topics for this month's issues. I can click I can ask Chat GPT to do that and it will use the context that I've given it specifically for this project. Can see it is referencing my mission and it's coming up with newsletter ideas based on that. Let's see how well it did. The hidden power of second tries. Theme of creative resilience. That's something that I talk about a lot. Creative deep work routine. That's actually very applicable. I have a Skillshare course on the creative deep work routine that you can check out if you're interested. And then here's a specific story from history. I like to use historical stories to give examples of creators. So these are actually looking quite good. If you sign up for the newsletter, maybe you'll see these in one of the upcoming issues. Now, let's say I'm done with this chat and I want to start a new chat in the same project. I would go back over to the projects areas, click on the project itself, and then I can see this chat that I just created, but I can just start a new chat on a different topic, but it's going to be in that context of the creative process newsletter. Use projects to make sure it's efficient and effective for you, I recommend using it actually for specific projects or for specific roles in your creative career, or you can do both. The beauty of this is that you can ask specific questions and access specific resources in the context of that role. Then if you want to go back and try to find one of those chats that had great ideas in them, you not only can find them by their name because you've renamed the chats effectively based on the previous lesson in this course, but also according to the context in which that chat it for this lesson, as always, check the course PDF for all the resources to look back on to implement this habit. And next we're going to go ghost mode. I'm going to teach you how and when to use temporary chat. I'll see you there. 9. Use Temporary Chat: Talk about our last habit in the essential hat GPT hygiene habit list. That's habit number seven. Use temporary chat for one off chats or strange requests. We've already learned that Chat GPT remembers a lot of things that we put into the chat box. But what if we want to ask a question that's kind of strange or weird or outside of our normal role, and we don't actually want Chat GPT to remember? That's when you use temporary chat. Let me show you how it works. First, what you do is you open a new chat and then you need to find the temporary chat button. It moves around sometimes, so you might find it in different places. You might find it down here in the tools or in the model dropdowns. But currently in the web version, it's this dotted line chat box speech bubble. I'm going to turn on a temporary chat. You can see that the box turns a different color, and it gives an explanation. This chat won't appear in history, use or update Chat GPT's memory or be used to train our models. For safety purposes, we may keep a copy of this chat for up to 30 days. So the temporary chat does a couple of things. Think about it like an incognito window in your browser. It doesn't remember your past memory. It also doesn't send the information to Chat GPT for training its models. So you can ask sort of weird or strange one off things here, and it won't affect your memory system. Let's say I have kind of a strange hobby where I like to collect old phonograph advertisements. I like the advertisements as paper or as signs. But let's say I don't want that to go into the memory, so it keeps bringing me back to old phonograph advertisements. I would maybe open a temporary chat and put in a prompt like this one. Where can I buy old advertisements or signs online? And so now it will give me an answer to my question, but it won't dump that into the memory. You can see it's searching the web and it's giving me some suggestions of online marketplaces, and then it even pulled from the web some examples. So the Edison New standard phonograph, Edison phonograph, et cetera. So this is great because now I can use this information, but it's not going to it's not going to go in my chat history and it's not going to clutter that up. You also sometimes might want to use this for personal information if you're giving it personal information and you don't want that to be shared with chat GPT. You can also use it when you're demoing chat GPT for others, maybe in front of a class or a tutorial and you don't want it to share some of your secrets with the public. Or if you just want a kind of cordoned off cloistered zone where you can ask a question and not have ripple effects across the rest of your chat GPD setup. Once you're done with your temporary chat, all you have to do is start a new chat and you're back to where you were before. And that's how you use the temporary chat mode in chat GPT. And that's the last habit in our habit list. In the next lesson, we'll wrap everything up. 10. Your Hygiene Routine: The last few lessons, you've learned seven small but mighty habits, each one designed to make chat GPT fast, clean, and friction free. Let's hit the quick recap. Up first is to set your custom instructions. In this lesson, you taught hat GPT how to think like you. Instant alignment, no wasted time. Habit number two was to start fresh when needed. You learned when to clear the slate and why new chats cut the confusion. Habit number three is to name your chats as soon as you get value from them. This will help you find that golden nugget later. Habit number four is to clean your memory. In this lesson, you took back control of what your AI remembers and what it forgets. Next habit was to save your best prompts. Start a prompt fault and make it very simple to start. The next habit was to organize your work with projects. In this lesson, you learn to organize your work in chat GPT around projects and roles. Finally, go into ghost mode when it makes sense. Use that temporary chat function to have chats if you want to ask a question that's outside of how you want to use chat GPT. Or if you just want to take on a role that you don't want to have ripples throughout other aspects of chat GPT. These are the seven habits of hygiene and chat GPT. They're not flashy, they're not hype. They don't take a lot of technical knowledge, but hopefully you'll find that this will immediately make chat GPT work better, cleaner, and faster for you. And if you like this course, I've got even more for you. Please be sure to stay connected with me. You can follow me on Skillshare, and you can check out my other courses there, including one called Creative Flow on Schedule. It teaches you all about how to set up your own creative deep work schedule. Also, this course is part of a series that I'm calling Effortless AI, so keep an eye out for additional courses in the future. And I would love it if you signed up for my newsletter. My newsletter is for creatives and it's called the creative process. It's full of tools, strategies, and insights for creative professionals just like you so you can make your best work and thrive. I send out an email once a week with examples from past creators and frameworks of creators that you can put to use right away. My name is Mark Samples. Thank you so much for taking this course. Now, go out there and clean up your chat GPT to make it work for you. See you out there.