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Everyday AI Workflows: The Recipe Book

Ten complete, copy-paste workflows using what you've learned so far. Steal them, then adapt them.

AI Foundations · Beginner · 12 min read · 4 quiz questions

By Ronan Liedmeier, fractional head of growth and course author · Reviewed 13 October 2026

What you will learn

  • How to read these recipes
  • Communication recipes
  • Organization recipes
  • Thinking and content recipes
  • Making recipes stick

Lesson preview

Every recipe follows the same shape: tools, trigger, prompt/steps, and a human checkpoint on anything with consequences. Communication, organization, and thinking recipes cover most daily knowledge work, and the way they stick is by anchoring to existing habits and adopting one recipe per week instead of ten at once. Each recipe lists Tools (what must be set up), Trigger (when you run it), Prompt/steps, and Human checkpoint (what you review). Recipes are deliberately built on earlier skills — if one doesn't work for you, there's usually a missing prerequisite from an earlier module. Inbox Zero Triage (daily, 5 min) uses the Gmail connector to triage today's inbox into needs-reply-today, needs-reply-this-week, FYI-only, and unsubscribe candidates, drafting replies for the urgent ones as Gmail drafts you review and send — never auto-send. The Difficult Email recipe (as needed) has you paste a dreaded thread and ask for a summary of what they want plus three drafted replies (firm, warm, neutral) so you can pick, blend, and send — always your checkpoint for anything with relationship stakes. Meeting Prep in 10 Minutes (before every important call) uses Calendar, Gmail, and web search to prep you with email history, recent company news, a likely agenda, and three smart questions.

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Key terms in this module

AI workflow
An AI workflow is a fixed series of steps, set in advance by a person or by code, in which an AI model handles one or more of the steps. The steps run in the same order every time, which makes a workflow easy to test and check.

Frequently asked questions

Who is "Everyday AI Workflows: The Recipe Book" for?
This Beginner module in AI Foundations is for people who are new to AI tools and want practical, everyday results without jargon. It takes about 12 minutes and ends with a 4-question quiz.
Do I need to code?
No. Everything in this module works in tools like ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini through a normal chat window.
What comes before and after this module?
Before "Everyday AI Workflows: The Recipe Book", take "MCP: Plugging AI Into Your Actual Tools" (module 8 of AI Foundations). Afterwards, continue with "No-Code Automation: Zapier & Make".

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