Whether you're looking for easy productivity tips for work or a smarter way to manage the household juggle, finding extra hours in the day can feel impossible. The good news? The right tools can make a real difference. We asked the experts for their best advice on streamlining your workday with AI, then show you exactly how a smart family calendar can bring more organisation and calm to your home life.

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Easy Productivity Tips for Work: How to Use AI to Reclaim an Hour of Your Day

If you’re already using AI to make quick work of time consuming tasks – from researching holiday destinations to finding weekly dinner ideas – then you’re in good company. A recent study shows that Australians are adopting AI for search and problem‑solving and believe it can boost their productivity. 

Dr Amantha Imber, CEO of Inventium AI, encourages her clients to take this a step further and ask this question: How many hours am I spending on tasks [that AI] could handle? “For most knowledge workers I know, the answer is north of five hours a week. Sometimes closer to 10, or even 20,” she says. Thinking of AI as like a junior assistant and delegating repetitive tasks and prompts to your helper to boost your efficiency can help you get back hours of your week. 

Here’s how the experts use AI* to save 60 minutes a day.

Save 10 Minutes: How to Use AI to Create a Morning Briefing 

“To set up a daily briefing on the workday ahead so you can save time figuring out what to start on, get AI to ask you five questions about what systems to include, what is important and a preferred format,” says Brett Raven, co-founder of AI training and consultancy firm AI Avenue. 

Try This Prompt: “Act as my executive assistant. Create my 7am daily briefing using available information from my inbox, calendar, CRM [customer relationship management system] and team channels.”

Save 10 Minutes: How to Use AI to Clarify What You Need  

“If I have a sense of what I need [for a work task] but I’m not sure on the details, I ask [AI] to interview me, with the answers then becoming the brief,” says Amantha.

Try This Prompt: “Before we start, I want you to interview me about [insert topic] to create [insert goal] so we don’t miss anything important. Ask me the questions you’d need answered to do this well.”

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Save 10 Minutes: How to Use AI to Turn Notes Into Actions

Long meetings can feel like they take a whole day when you have to summarise notes and devise action points. Brett makes this all happen in a matter of moments by uploading his notes to an AI tool to receive clear summaries on agreed solutions, responsibilities and next steps. 

Try This Prompt: “Act as a project coordinator. Review the meeting notes below and turn them into a clear action summary. If something important is unclear, ask me up to three clarifying questions before producing the final version.”

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Save 10 Minutes: How to Use AI to Improve Outputs  

Instead of always rewriting AI outputs, Amantha uses AI tools to help create the perfect prompt. Using your preferred AI platform, send it an initial prompt, then send it an updated version and ask it to explain why the updated version was more effective. You can also ask the AI platform what direction and information it needs in order to produce the outcome you’re looking for. Through both methods, you can create stronger and effective prompts.

Try This Prompt: “Here’s the prompt I used: [insert prompt]. Here’s what it produced: [insert output]. Here’s my edited version: [insert edited output]. What did I change and why? Use that to rewrite the original prompt so future outputs need less fixing.”

Save 10 Minutes: How to Use AI to Fact-Check Answers 

For anything factual, legal, financial, medical, technical or customer-facing, Brett asks AI to separate confirmed facts from assumptions. Asking for source references in your prompts is another useful layer of verification that can streamline your fact-checking process.

Try This Prompt: “Review your answer and identify any claims that need verification. Separate confirmed facts from assumptions. Tell me what source material I should check before relying on this.”

Save 10 Minutes: How to Use AI to Create Reusable Templates 

Reducing repetitive tasks is an easy win when it comes to saving time. From presentations to emails, Brett says you can use AI platforms to create and fine-tune templates to use instead of building them from scratch.

Try This Prompt: “Help me create a reusable template for [insert task]. Ask me up to five initial questions first about the audience, purpose, frequency, tone and ideal level of detail. Then create a template.”

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How a Smart Family Calendar Can Help Your Whole Family Get More Done

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Managing multiple family members, appointments and schedules? Here are five ways to transform weekly chaos into calm with this smart digital calendar.  

Sync Your Family Calendars

From afternoon soccer to morning swimming lessons, there are a lot of moving parts when it comes to mapping out the week. This digital calendar makes it easy to plan, organise and adapt the week to suit every family member’s schedule. Link all the family’s schedules and use it as a central household hub to give everyone visibility, reducing missed commitments or double bookings. You can even assign everyone a colour and encourage the kids to add their own activities in. 

Plan Weekly Meals in Minutes

Working out meals every week can take up a lot of brainspace. Use this digital calendar’s built-in meal planner to set a regular slot to review the week ahead, align meals with everyone’s schedules and build a grocery shopping list.

Stay Organised With Timers and Reminders

Never miss a milestone and load your calendar with important recurring dates – birthdays, sports practice, anniversaries and milestones. This function can also help you stay on top of life admin by adding reminders to pay bills, book medical appointments, review subscriptions and much more.

Schedule Family Time 

If it's not on the calendar, it’s not happening, so make sure there’s room for dedicated family time too. Carve out specific time slots for family movie nights, play dates and holiday plans everyone can look forward to.

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*Remember to always verify any facts, figures or claims generated by AI before relying on them.

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