I wrote in my e-book, “Become a Content Curator” that the easiest way to start writing online is to:

take the content you already consume (books, videos, articles), shoot it through your unique perspective, and share it with the world.

Don’t worry about creating anything “new.” Just curate what you’re already reading and watching to create a writing habit. Then build up from there.

Well, ChatGPT just launched its “Tasks” feature that makes curation a whole lot faster and easier. And if I was starting from scratch, I’d use it as a launching pad for a newsletter.

Here’s how you can use ChatGPT Tasks to start your first newsletter.

1. Ask ChatGPT Tasks to send you a weekly content round-up.

ChatGPT Tasks lets you schedule ChatGPT to do things for you in the future. For example, you can have it send you daily stock quotes, or send you five content ideas every morning, or even draft entire outlines.

The power of ChatGPT Tasks is that instead of retyping or tweaking prompts every time, you can set up Tasks with a prompt you know works (because you’ve tested it). Then, you schedule the task and ChatGPT executes.

So, the first thing I would do is set up a reoccurring weekly ChatGPT task to send me information on the niche I’m interested in every week. I’ll choose AI advancements to use as an example because it seems like there’s a new announcement every day.

If you wanted to send out your newsletter on Sunday (like many huge newsletters do), then maybe set the task to deliver every Friday morning.

Here’s an example:

Notice how I ask ChatGPT to ask me clarifying questions before setting up the task? This is a great habit to get into and will save you a ton of time.

Here’s the task, now set up and ready to go:

This looks okay. But, anytime I’m crafting a prompt, I like to ask ChatGPT if there is any way to improve it to get a better result:

Notice how, after a round of revisions, the prompt (No. 3 above) becomes much stronger and more specific? Of course, we won’t really know how it does until we can see what it delivers, but at least we’ve made it as strong as possible right now.

So, low and behold, on Friday morning, ChatGPT delivers this:

Now, this isn’t bad. The first result of the Meta announcement is brand new and definitely something I would include in the newsletter. The Nvidia announcement is a couple weeks old, while the third result is from October.

I only wanted results from the past 7 days, so I would want to tweak the prompt to try and get better results. I may even open it up beyond three results per week - maybe five.

Still, this is great info that I can choose to include (or not) in my newsletter, which brings us to…

2. Send the curated content out in a free newsletter.

Now that I’ve got a weekly reoccurring ChatGPT Task sending me all the latest AI news, it’s time to start my newsletter. But how?

I send the Leveraged Creator newsletter with Beehiive, which is free up to 2,500 subscribers. For transparency, I spend $75 per month on their “Scale” plan because I have over 3,500 subs.

But if you are just starting out, you can create a free account and start sending emails right away. Just give your newsletter a name and description, then load up your first post with the content that excited you from your ChatGPT task.

But how do you make it yours?

3. Add your spin to the curated content.

First, YOU are choosing what to include. ChatGPT Tasks is sending you options, but YOU are curating it with your judgment. That helps make it unique.

Second, add your opinion to your curation. With the AI example, I would extrapolate out how I would potentially use the new AI developments in my own work (kind of like what I’m doing here).

Always come back to your life experience. And don’t be afraid to tell people what you’re working on and how that intersects with what you’re sharing.

People want to hear from a real person, so be yourself.

And remember, enthusiasm is contagious. If you’re clearly excited about the subject matter and its applications, others will be too.

Start now.

-Thomas

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