There are dozens of products. An ordinary week usually has six kinds of job: write, read, sort photos, listen, translate, check a message. We keep a short shelf and teach when to pick each category. We name typical products in class. We do not rank them here.
25 min
Use it for a letter, a list or a first outline. Type who you are, what you need, for whom, the format, the length and the tone. Expect a fluent draft that still needs your facts.
Typical mistake: pasting the whole life story and asking it to “make it nice”. Price: free tier on several products; paid plans add higher limits.
Timed by us while building the lesson, on a demo task. Your own pace will differ.
12 min
Use it when a PDF is longer than you can mark up before lunch. Ask for bullets with clause numbers or page numbers you can check. Expect omissions on the first pass.
Typical mistake: treating the summary as the document. Price: free uploads with a page cap; paid plans lift the cap.
Timed by us while building the lesson, on a demo task. Your own pace will differ.
20 min
Use it to group a camera dump by date and place, then rename batches. Feed a folder, not a single file, and write the naming rule first.
Typical mistake: letting the tool invent place names you never typed. Price: phone albums are often free; desktop organisers may charge for bulk rename.
Timed by us while building the lesson, on a demo task. Your own pace will differ.
8 min
Use it to straighten a scan, lift a shadow or crop a receipt. Say what must stay untouched — a signature, a stamp, a face you do not want altered.
Typical mistake: “improve this” with no limit, which rewrites the picture. Price: a few free cleanups a day on common apps; bundles are paid.
Timed by us while building the lesson, on a demo task. Your own pace will differ.
10 min
Use it when your hands are slower than your speech: a recipe, a meeting note, a letter you can say aloud. Speak punctuation if the tool supports it.
Typical mistake: leaving names and numbers unchecked. Price: built into many phones at no extra cost; specialist apps may charge.
Timed by us while building the lesson, on a demo task. Your own pace will differ.
6 min
Use it to hear a long page when print is tiring. Highlight a paragraph, start the voice, pause at each number. Expect clumsy reading of tables.
Typical mistake: using it as a substitute for checking a contract. Price: system voices are free; natural voices are often a subscription.
Timed by us while building the lesson, on a demo task. Your own pace will differ.
15 min
Use it for a price list, a notice or a short message in Malay, Mandarin or Tamil. Lock the numbers in a separate column before you translate names.
Typical mistake: translating a whole poster and missing a digit. Price: short texts are free on several tools; document packs are paid.
Timed by us while building the lesson, on a demo task. Your own pace will differ.
18 min
Use it to explain a formula in plain words or to build a simple roster table. Paste a small sample, not your whole customer book.
Typical mistake: asking it to “clean the sheet” and watching it reorder rows you still needed. Price: usually bundled with a free office login.
Timed by us while building the lesson, on a demo task. Your own pace will differ.
4 min
Use it to list questions about a sender, a domain and a request for money or codes. Do not paste one-time passwords or full links if you can avoid it.
Typical mistake: asking “is this safe?” and stopping there. Price: advice pages and some checkers are free. Your bank’s own channel is still the place for account questions.
Timed by us while building the lesson, on a demo task. Your own pace will differ.
5 min
Use it to highlight the real domain on a page or to read a form label aloud. Keep it off banking pages if you are not sure what it can see.
Typical mistake: installing three assistants and forgetting which one is speaking. Price: some are free extensions; others sell a monthly pass. You may uninstall any of them.
Timed by us while building the lesson, on a demo task. Your own pace will differ.
14 min
Use it after a call you were allowed to record, or from notes you typed while listening. Ask for actions, owners and dates, then check every name.
Typical mistake: recording a family call without consent. Price: short transcripts are free on some tools; hour-long files often need a paid plan.
Timed by us while building the lesson, on a demo task. Your own pace will differ.
16 min
Use it to turn a plain list into a one-page menu, roster or booklet. Say the paper size and the font size you can read at the table.
Typical mistake: accepting a design that looks pretty and prints at 8-point type. Price: simple pages are free; extra templates may be paid.
Timed by us while building the lesson, on a demo task. Your own pace will differ.
An NRIC number identifies a person for the rest of their life. We never type it into a prompt, even to “fill a form”. If a form needs it, you type it only on the official site, with your own hands, after you have read the address bar.
Bank phrases, card numbers, one-time passwords and screenshots of a banking app belong nowhere near a chat box. A tool that helps you word a complaint does not need the account number. Write “account ending 00” if you must mention it at all.
Other people’s medical notes are not yours to upload. A discharge summary you found in a drawer still names someone. We teach you to copy the questions you need onto a fresh page and leave the names behind.
Home addresses, unit numbers and the school gate of a grandchild are enough for a stranger to act on. Use “our block” or “the clinic at the mall” while you draft. Put the real line back when you print or post the letter yourself.
Write six lines before you send. Who I am. What I need. For whom it will be read. The format. The length. The tone. Then paste only the facts that belong in those lines.
I am asking the claims team to look again at an outpatient claim. I need a one-page letter to the claims team. The reader is a clerk who has the rejection email. Use dated paragraphs and quote clause 4.2. Keep it under 250 words. Tone: calm and specific, no threats.
A tenancy, a will, a charge sheet or a letter that creates a legal duty needs a person who is allowed to advise you. The tool may list questions. It may not tell you what the document means for your case.
Clinic letters, medicine lists and anything that sounds like a diagnosis stay with a doctor or pharmacist. We will help you write questions. We will not let a chat box rewrite a dose.
Money decisions and emotional letters to family benefit from a night’s sleep and a second pair of human eyes. If the draft makes you hotter, close the tab and finish the letter on paper the next morning.