Productivity · 8 min read
How to Build a Personal AI Workflow
A personal AI workflow turns repeated tasks into a clear system: capture information, understand it, decide what matters, and schedule the next step.
Choose your goals
Start with a few workflows that happen often: researching a topic, summarizing a video, extracting text from a screenshot, drafting an email, or planning the week. A focused workflow is easier to improve.
Capture inputs
Your input might be a question, web page, image, YouTube link, rough note, or document. Put the source material close to the request so the assistant has enough context.
Process information
Ask the assistant to summarize, compare, explain, rewrite, or extract next steps. Use formats like tables and checklists when you need to act on the answer later.
Save actions
A useful workflow ends with a decision or next step. Turn the output into a reminder, task, note, message, or follow-up question.
Repeat and improve
After using the workflow a few times, refine the prompt. Add missing context, remove unnecessary steps, and save the version that gives the most useful results.
Build your workflow in Chat
Use Chat to combine search, summaries, OCR, reminders, and follow-up questions in one assistant workflow.