Pick your tool & meet the toolkit
Pick one AI assistant for the month, send your first message, and find the AI already inside the apps you use.
Day 0 of Prompting Path, a 30-day AI course with one 10-minute lesson and one real task a day. Day 0 to Day 8 are free.
The lesson
Before you prompt, you need somewhere to prompt. Pick one general-purpose AI assistant and stick with it for the next 30 days. Don't bounce between five tools, fluency comes from depth.
Recommended starting points (any will work for this program):
- Claude (claude.ai), strong reasoning, good for writing, coding, analysis.
- ChatGPT (chat.openai.com), popular, lots of plugins.
- Gemini (gemini.google.com), good Google integration.
- Microsoft Copilot (copilot.microsoft.com, or the Copilot app), built on OpenAI's models and already inside many workplaces.
On Copilot: if your employer gives you Microsoft 365 Copilot, that's the one already wired into your Outlook, Word, Excel and Teams. Watch for the Work / Web toggle, "Work" can see your company files and is covered by your organisation's data protection; "Web" behaves like the free consumer version. Pick whichever you'll actually open.
One more thing: AI no longer lives only in a chat window. It's already built into the apps you use every day, Copilot inside Word and Excel, Gemini inside Google Docs and Sheets. We'll use those directly in Week 3. And as the month goes on you'll see AI land inside the tools modern teams organise work in: docs in Notion or Google Drive, tasks in Linear, designs in Figma. You don't need any of them today, but knowing the landscape makes everything click faster.
The free tiers are enough for this week. We'll talk about paid upgrades in Week 3.
Today's task is in the app
Every day ends with a small, real task and a tip, and they live in the app. Pop in your email once and every free day opens up, with your progress saved as you go. It works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Microsoft Copilot, and the free tiers are enough.
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