What's Next For Accounting? - Issue #65
Jason Staats
January 12, 2023
🗓️ This Week
Trevor Lee shared a great roundup of recent AI updates in Excel
Freshbooks kicked off a Tax Partner Program - Join their 1 hour certification session here, get free lunch & they'll show you how to use Freshbooks for tax cleanup
Digits announced 'Transaction Review' at QB Connect, and it's now live in the product
Kevin Shen shared some great video setup tips. He's a killer follow if you're looking to upgrade your video
If you're interested in building a YouTube channel, the replies here are gold
Someone made a podcast transcript search engine
ChatGPT got an update: answers should be more factually correct than before, and you can now stop a prompt response in-progress
We learned OpenAI plans to launch a premium version of ChatGPT
A reminder GPT sucks at math - stop asking it to do math
More AI-generated text detecting - A reminder to assume AI-generated text detection will be built into the browser eventually, and to leverage it accordingly
Rob Lennon described ChatGPT as AI's "iPhone Moment", an inflection point that changes the trajectory of how we live & work. Here's a great thread to get ahead on some early AI traps, and I highly recommend Rob's newsletter. Last issue he ran through how to use ChatGPT as a personal writing editor
AccountingWeb poses the question of whether ChatGPT can replace humans for tax advice. Spoilers ahead: the twist is instead of answering the question they ask ChatGPT which feels like a conflict of interest
A ChatGPT prompt to summarize your writing style into an AI-written paragraph. You can then re-use that descriptive paragraph in other prompts, to have AI write in a better approximation of your voice
Confirmation Microsoft is training personalized AI models based on your MS data, but as a voracious reader of this newsletter you knew this would happen a couple mos ago 💘
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A Custom Shortcut From Your Lock Screen
(sorry Android peeps, these isn't a great way to do this one with Android 13)
Apple's Shortcuts app is a helpful way to chain events, even use Siri to call a Zap. But the other day I found an app called Lockflow that will put widgets for your shortcuts on your lock screen.
I use a light bulb for my Notion capture page, a calendar icon to hop into calendar, and a flame to open up Superhuman.
This one's pretty straightforward:
Create your actions in the Shortcuts app
Add them to the LockFlow app - be sure to name the widget the same as the shortcut
Customize the lock screen and add the LockFlow widgets
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