No card needed.
Show what I am pasting
# Your first conversation
For: anyone starting with AI, even if you have never used it for your own work · Time: 25 minutes · Works in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot.
## Before you start
- The AI you already use: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot.
- Your AI on your phone's home screen, so it opens in one tap. If it has an app, install it from your phone's app store and sign in with the account you use on your computer. If you use it in your phone's browser, open its website, use the browser's share or menu button, and choose "Add to Home Screen".
- 25 minutes at the end of your day, somewhere quiet.
## How to use this guide
Open the AI from your home screen and start a new chat. Paste this whole guide into it and send it.
Your AI then takes you through it one step at a time. It waits for your answer before the next step. You can stop after any step and come back later.
A note for the AI reading this: take me through one step at a time. Tell me what to do in short, plain sentences. Wait for my answer before you move on. At the end of each step, read me the check and ask me if it passed. If it did not pass, give me the fix. If it fails twice, do it with me. Never send, delete, pay or publish anything for me. Start now with Step 1.
## Step 1: Make your record (5 min)
Your record is one note on your phone, called "My record". It keeps your moments and your lines from each evening. It stays with you, not with the AI.
Make the note now in your phone's notes app. Call it "My record".
Paste this:
```text
I have made a note on my phone called "My record". Please tell me in one sentence what we will do in the next step.
```
Check: Your phone has a note called My record.
If it does not pass: Open your notes app, start a new note, and type "My record" as its first line.
## Step 2: Capture one moment of your day (5 min)
Think of one moment from today's work. Something you did, decided or fixed. Tell your AI about it in two or three sentences.
Paste this:
```text
Here is one moment from my day: [write two or three sentences about it].
Write it back to me as one line that starts with today's date, so I can copy it into my record. Use my words. Do not add anything I did not say.
```
Copy the line your AI gives you. Paste it into your "My record" note.
Check: The moment is in My record, with today's date.
If it does not pass: Type the date yourself at the start of the line in your note, then the moment in your own words.
## Step 3: Answer the evening conversation (15 min)
Now your AI asks you five questions about your work. You answer in your own words. Short answers are fine. There are no wrong answers.
Two answers matter most. "Where AI must ask me" is where an AI would get your work wrong, so it must stop and ask you there. "What I do differently" is one sentence on what you now do differently.
Paste this:
```text
Ask me these five questions, one at a time. Wait for my answer before the next one. Do not answer for me.
1. What did you do today that only you could do?
2. Not everyone could do that. Why are you good at it?
3. How did that start? Did you learn it on purpose, or did it happen to you?
4. If you handed this to an AI tomorrow, where exactly would it get it wrong?
5. In one line: what do you now do differently because of this?
After my last answer, write two lines using only my words:
Where AI must ask me: [from my answer to question 4]
What I do differently: [today's date] [my answer to question 5]
```
Read the two lines. If a word is not yours, ask your AI to change it. Then copy both lines into your "My record" note.
Check: You have two lines in your own words: Where AI must ask me, and What I do differently.
If it does not pass: Write the two lines yourself, starting with "Where AI must ask me:" and "What I do differently:", and ask your AI only to shorten them.
## Done when
- Your phone has a note called "My record".
- It has one moment with today's date.
- It has your two lines, in your own words: Where AI must ask me, and What I do differently.
- Tomorrow evening, you open your AI from your home screen and start again from Step 2.
Next, free: Keep every idea in one place, so none dies in your head. It is at praximedes.com/methodos/ideas
Works with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot. About 25 minutes, once.