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This video below covers the basics of using DATA, but also shows literally DATA’s most complicated shortcut setup in just 15 minutes of the video.
First, here’s a preview video of what your life will soon be like.
Then, continue to the instructional video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRTvZfB0UoA
Everything else you could ever want to do with DATA is easier than this, once you have morning briefings set up you will be a master of the DATA universe, so that’s where we’re starting.
My goal with this video is to start off with the biggest possible setup task, and then hopefully after watching and knocking this out, you feel confident you know your way around the shortcuts app and can begin to really automate & customize things as you go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr6C622RcQs
00:00 — How to Set Up DATA On Your Home Screen
4:45 — How to talk to DATA, how to decide when to use Commands
9:00 — How to Auto-Update ALL shortcuts to be sure you have the latest version of anything (if it’s been a few months)
10:15 — Morning Briefing Setup, And Why Using Morning Briefings is Over Powered!
The broad overview of 3 parts:
12:30 — Set them up to run at least 6 of each Stats & Brief Me during a 2 hour block you’ll definitely be asleep, then just set “replay briefing” to run when you want to wake up!
You can also use “Play Briefing Over Speakers” and pick the air-play device of your choice by editing the shortcut and selecting the speaker you want to play the music on.
13:00 — Last setup step is to just go ALL THE WAY through Stats & Brief Me ONCE and hit “allow all” a billion times while you watch a TV show. Should take about an hour, you only ever have to do it once, and then you’re done! Morning briefings will run in the background while you’re asleep every morning and you’re good to go.
19:51 — What to do if GPT-3 botches it :P
20:00 — Preview of what a successful morning briefing sounds like!
23:00 — You can add anything you want into the “replay briefing” shortcut, opening blinds, pre-heating your car, turning on lights, anything! For the full Jarvis Experience.
Here’s the script of everything a morning briefing includes and a breakdown of costs:
https://x.com/stevemoraco/status/1676948227613159426?s=46&t=g3MpXG7gCCmWxkalf_povg
One of my favorite features, and the feature I definitely use most often with DATA, is the morning briefing feature.
It is one of the more complicated things to set up, but it's also very instructive about the different abilities data has and how capable it is at reliably executing those abilities.
The way it is set up by default, morning briefing will generate a unique playlist, and it will generate a walk you should go on today, and then it will brief you on really anything that's in your short-term memory, but primarily your calendar and local events. It usually creates about a four-minute audio file that's a really great listen in the morning, like a little mini-podcast customized just for you, and it can deliver this both with Siri's voice or with an ElevenLabs voice if you're paying for an ElevenLabs subscription. So morning briefing is one of the most fun ways to use data, and it also has the benefit of working fully in the background, so it's already done a couple hours of work when you wake up, and it's especially fun for that reason.
This shortcut should be a great inspiration if you want to build your own very complicated custom prompts. It’s a unique find-and-replace structure that guides GPT on exactly what to say while still letting it come up with creative solutions for unique items along the way.
It's built to provide varied, inspiring context on your current life situation and a rundown of stuff you should be paying attention to every day, and it also references recent conversations or inputs you’ve given DATA, so if DATA has recently searched the web or checked your email, that’ll make it into your briefing as well.
I have mine set to run automatically every morning as my alarm.
Brief me makes your briefing, it does not play it. Badly named, I know, but too late to change it. Use Replay Briefing or Replay Briefing in Speakers to hear your briefing.
Brief me will only make one briefing per day, it automatically tracks its progress so if it breaks half way through it can resume from where it left off. To make another briefing, just delete your Stats.txt file.
Brief Me is a very specific type of find-and-replace prompt type that you are welcome to play around with and customize a bit to your needs. You can edit this shortcut and look for the Activate DATA blocks with long text files as inputs, and edit the <Template> Portion of those to edit the output. Quite fun.
I left a lot of personal preferences in there as inspiration for you. You'll want to at least fix that, and you're probably not a photographer either.
I also added a feature where each day DATA will pick a gap in your schedule today and suggest a time for a 15-30 minute (sometimes 1-hour) walk nearby. This works better on GPT-4, sometimes with GPT-3 it creates conflicts but you can always just move the invite.
It creates the real calendar invite with details of where to walk and what to look out for on your walk. So if you set it as your alarm you will wake up every day with a little local walk already on the calendar.
I really enjoy this when traveling, I’ve discovered so many cool little local trails because of it.
Either way, not bad for GPT-3! This is a little preview/taste of the awesome features the Enterprise Subscription provides, like sending cal invites, emails, reminders, texts, making documents, searching the web, and more.
If there's already a briefing for today in your short-term memory you can trigger this to play the briefing again at any time. It will play the most recent Playlist DATA has made, and then 6 second later it will start your briefing.
You need to edit this shortcut to use an AirPlay device in your house for it to work.
Play briefing on the speakers is a custom shortcut I made for myself because most people were trying to use the way I had replay briefing set up and it was breaking.
So I set replay briefing so that it just works on everyone's phone normally and then I created a new shortcut called replay briefing on the speakers which works if you have a home pod or a Bluetooth speaker in your home that you can airplay to.
Basically what it does is it will play the music on that speaker and then it will play your morning briefing on your phone's speaker. So you get two audio sources simultaneously and it's really quite fun and interactive and futuristic.
To use briefings as an automation before you wake up, you MUST run through it once or twice and hit allow all. I recommend doing this while watching TV, it takes forever and it’s super boring. But once you’ve done it for most of the websites you’re good to go. With Ultra Browse (coming soon) you won’t need to do this anymore.
This runs 20 different internet requests to basically stack your short term memory with live information from the internet while you sleep. This way you wake up to a version of DATA that has the full briefing on current events in the world without it ever having to google anything, and it makes using DATA absolutely crazy powerful. It also makes your morning briefings way cooler.
Stats now uses “Quick Browse” and is incredible. It will be even more amazing with Ultra Browse, coming soon.
Make sure to run Quick Browse in a normal mode other than “LANDER” because if you use GPT-4 running this all the way through will no joke cost $500. But on GPT-3 it works just as well and costs $3. So yeah. Go with GPT-3.