In this episode, you’ll learn how to break free from copy-paste and scale your AI workflows effortlessly. You’ll discover how to summarize lengthy AI conversations into actionable outlines with model-switching. You’ll see how tools like n8n can automate exports to platforms like WordPress or YouTube. Finally, you’ll unlock strategies to turn AI text into podcasts, videos, and more—without manual busywork. Watch now to bridge your AI’s brain to the real world!
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Part Four of Never Think Alone
Today’s part is called Bridging Brains, and this is all about connecting AI to other things.
One of the challenges with generative AI is that while the AI engine does really cool things, the information often stays within the system. You then have to figure out how to get that information out. In parts two and three, we talked about getting information into AI. Now, in part four, we’re discussing how to get information out of these systems.
Most people rely on copy-paste, and that’s fine—there’s nothing inherently wrong with it. But at scale, copy-paste stops working efficiently. If you’re using AI as a personal thought partner, it’s less of an issue. However, if you’re building an app that needs to scale to hundreds of thousands or millions of users, you can’t have everyone copy-pasting. It just doesn’t work.
Here are a couple of key strategies:
- Summarize Conversations
- Periodically ask the AI to summarize the conversation so far. What are the main points?
- If your tool allows model-switching (e.g., Google’s Gemini), you can toggle between models. For example:
- Use Gemini 1.5 Flash for fast, live conversation.
- Switch to Gemini Pro and say, “Now, build me an outline of the major talking points, ignoring the tangents, and just give me the final outline.”
This is how I structured this five-part series. The raw material was a 40-minute conversation with Gemini where I refined ideas, reworded sections, and iterated until I had a solid outline. Gemini Advanced weeded through the back-and-forth and produced a usable summary.
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Export and Automate
- Most tools now allow direct exports (e.g., to Google Docs in Canvas mode).
- From there, you can use automation tools like n8n to extract and process these conversations at scale. For example:
- Search Google Drive for labeled Gemini conversations.
- Programmatically export them to other platforms (e.g., WordPress for blog posts).
Here’s a quick demo (though I won’t log in live for security reasons):
- In n8n, set up a Google Drive search for files.
- Route the data through transformations (cleaning, merging).
- Push it to a destination like WordPress to auto-generate posts.
- Repurpose Content
- Take summarized AI outputs and bridge them to other formats:
- Convert text to audio (e.g., using Google Cloud’s text-to-speech).
- Upload to podcast platforms or video tools like Headliner.
- Now, your AI conversation becomes a YouTube video or podcast episode.
- Take summarized AI outputs and bridge them to other formats:
The goal of Bridging Brains is to move ideas from your head (or your AI conversations) into other mediums without relying on manual copy-paste. Automation tools like n8n, integrated with your ecosystem, let you condense and publish thinking efficiently.
Stay tuned for part five, Agentic Actualization, where we’ll discuss turning thinking into action.
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