Learn 10X Faster In 10 Minutes transcript

In the world that we live in, the ability to learn things fast is the ultimate skill. So, today in this video, I want to show you this workflow that I use cuz, well, learning things is literally my job and also a hobby. For those of you who don't know me, hello. My name is Tina. I am a ex-metadata scientist turned content creator about AI and tech. I also run an AI education business called Learnly Octopus. Now, without further ado, let's go.

A portion of this video is sponsored by مدرس. So, step number one is called standing on the shoulder of giants. Over here, you see, is the study plan that is the best way to learn AI coding, agentic engineering, vibe coding, whatever you want to call it, based on the experiences, the successes, and failures of many other people. You see, whatever you're trying to learn, chances are somebody has already learned it. Be that a language, driver's license, AI, AI coding, whatever.

So, what you want to do is actually take the experiences of these other people and stand on a shoulder of these giants to learn the way that is the best proven way to learn. And the way to do that is to use Notebook LM. Well, recently they rebranded themselves to Gemini Notebook. Anyways, regardless of what they're called, their tagline is called understand anything, your AI powered research partner. So, I actually have a full video covering Notebook LM, Gemini Notebook, that goes into a lot of detail about it, which you can check out over here if you're interested.

But, today we're going to be focused on how to use it to learn things quickly. So, let's click try Gemini Notebook, create new notebook, and let's say I want to learn AI coding. I can type, "I want to learn AI coding. That is vibe coding, agentic engineering, whatever you want to call it." So, I want to eventually build a desktop app that can help me track uh my productivity habits, for example, and gain insights for improvement.

So, help me gather the sources on how to learn this the best way possible and gather some projects because I want to learn by doing. Uh say tools I've heard of are Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, for example. Click on it. So, it tells me these sources. So, I'm going to import these sources that it has found for me. Thank you very much. And then I'm going to say, "Help me design a study plan so I can learn to build my productivity app." Wonderful.

Okay, so it tells me that this is a 4-week study plan, and week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4. Excellent. This is standing on the shoulder of giants. I've done this for so many other things I want to learn and projects. For example, here's the one that I'm learning electronics with, still learning electronics with, by the way. Without this method, this would have taken me such a long time and just browsing through Reddit and looking at other people's study plans, reading books, things like that.

Such a time-saver. But, this is not good enough yet. We're not just going to follow this study plan right now, because first I want to really customize it just for me. So, moving on to part two, custom adjust for you. >> [music] >> Now, this is my AI coding study plan designed just for me. This is the one for building my hardware projects. I'm using the ESP32, and here's the one for learning gardening. All custom adjust for me.

And this is how I do it. So, first I go to Claude. You should use whatever chatbot that you use the most, that knows the best about you. And in my case, that would be Claude right now. And I'm going to copy this study plan that it gave me, and I'm going to say, "Help me design a custom study plan with lessons suitable for me based on the research below [music] on how to learn vibe coding each and tech engineering. I want to eventually build a productivity desktop app that can track what I am working on, save it, and allow me to query, give me insights and tips on how to improve my productivity, aka cope with ADHD, basically.

For example, alert me, "Hey, you're getting distracted." Or, "Hey, it's time to take a break. And I have the proposal from Notebook LM here. I'll center. Cool. So, let's see. So, it says here, given your background CS degree already running Claude code pipeline Hermes agent daily, the proposed plan of overcoming a cell intimidation framework doesn't actually fit. Okay, to be fair, yes, this is true. I do have extensive um experience in AI coding already, and I do actually know how to make this app.

So, you know what? That's fair, Claude. But, my point is it's going to adapt the study plan to you specifically. So, let's see what it's telling me here. Okay. So, instead, it's saying that I should scaffold and de-risk activity capture, Tauri, React, TypeScript, Tailwind, shell running, blah blah blah, and then data model persistence and dashboard UI. Inside the learn some local LM query, agentic engineering rigor and packaging.

Okay. So, this is what it's telling me that I should do. And I also really like how it tells me what is considered winning. Okay, great. So, this is going to be the actual new plan. The plan that is custom towards me. I want to make a few tweaks over here, but honestly, it captures me pretty well. It also even says that I've built the study plan based upon your existing infrastructure, like the fact that you have your Mac Studio, and then you also have Hermes agent and like other things going on as well.

So, cool. We now have a study plan. You can also ask it, "Cool, can you make the study plan into [music] a HTML file that I can check off as I progress?" Nice. So, it made this little like cute little interactive HTML file that you can actually check off. So, let's open it full screen, and and yeah, that's a lot more fun. So, what I like to do these days, let me actually show my full screen, is I like to use this little desktop app that I actually vibe coded, where I can just like copy-paste, and then I can follow the study plan by like clicking it.

I can like click stuff off, and then it also gets stored into my Obsidian vault. So, you can see that it literally matches over here. This is a great way for me to actually track like when I'm doing things and I progress that I'm making. This is one of the little desktop apps that I have vibe coded for myself, which I will explain a little bit more in just the next section. But basically just to finish off this customization section, you get like a custom study plan made for you, and I just work through it and check stuff off.

And I like to chat with my chatbot as I'm working through each part of the study plan. So I would be like asking it questions, how do I set this up? What do you mean by this? And then I kind of just like work interactively in order to work through it. I absolutely love it. It's a very like custom interactive experience. Little tip here is that choose which models and which chatbot that you want to use carefully to progress through your study plan.

If it's something that I want to keep private, I would use a local model, a local chatbot. If it's a study plan that involves a lot of visuals and videos and pictures, like when I'm building electronics for example, I want to make sure that things I'm pinning things in the right parts of the board, I would use ChatGPT. And if it's something that requires big context window, I would use Gemini. And if it's something that I just want to be like very straightforward, get through it, I would use Claude.

I'm going to put on screen my suggestions for what kind of chatbot or model you want to be using for what kind of study plan and task that you're doing. You can take a screenshot of that, or you can check out the free guide which I'll link in the description below, which has this information as well. When people say that they want to work with AI agents, but they are scared cuz the learning curve feels too steep. I go like, what?

Have you heard about Manas? Like I just built a fully custom CRM for my own Gmail and Notion data with a single prompt. And it even went and researched companies behind walled platforms like Crunchbase and LinkedIn on its own. And that's just one example of what it can do. You see, Manas launched their Manas browser operator, which turns your existing browser into an AI agent that can navigate the web, click through pages, and execute multi-steps all on its own.

Setup is very simple. All you got to do is install the Chrome extension, toggle on the my browser connector inside Manas, and authorize it. And Manas will always ask for your permission before using the browser, so you stay in control. Okay, so let me show you a real problem that I have. I run my company called Lonely Octopus, and sponsorship and partnership inquiries come in every day from all different places. Just to be clear, I'm very, very grateful of this.

Thank you so much. But the problem is that they're all over the place. Some are buried in Gmail, some are in Notion. I don't have a clear picture of what deals I have and what stage that they're in. So, I asked Manas to build me one from scratch off my actual data. I asked it to go through my Gmail, find every sponsorship and partnership conversation from the last 90 days, cross-reference my Notion, and build me a custom CRM web app that has pipeline stages, deal values, next actions, and flag anything I haven't replied in 5 days.

But, here's where it gets even better. I also told it, for every company, research them. Manas opens my browser and asks my permission first, then goes on Crunchbase and pulls their info and visits their LinkedIn to grab their role and company size. It's doing the hour of due diligence that I do on every inquiry for every deal, all in parallel. Then, it comes back with this, an actual working web app. My entire sponsorship pipeline in one board.

Of course, after this initial screening, I still actually have to go test and use the product for weeks before deciding if I like it enough to work with them. But, this initial stage went from chaos across two different apps and my brain to a system with just a prompt. So, if you have workflows to automate or agentic task, you can try out Manas for free. Link is in the description. Thank you so much, Manas, for sponsoring this portion of the video.

Now, back to the video. And with that, let's move on to part three, the productivity system, my desktop widgets. So, these two little guys are responsible for me actually doing what's on my study plan, cuz what point is having a study plan if you don't actually do it, right? I've already showed you this little typewriter. I insert my study plan and it keeps track of it. I save it into my Obsidian. And this little avocado is a Pomodoro app.

So, for example, I could just say like, you know, 1 minute and we'll call the task film demo. Click start and it will just be a Pomodoro timer. And when it's done, it does that. Thank you. And I can also log it, uh, which also goes to my Obsidian. And it would add on a little log for what I've done. And that is my accountability system so that I actually do the things. It works really great for me. You obviously don't need to do this, but if you like, I can also give you the prompts in the free guide that I have in the description.

And you'll become unstoppable. But wait, before I end this video, I want to add a final bonus section of this workflow, which is the memory system. >> [music] >> Here's my Obsidian, my memory system. Here I use it to track my Pomodoros and also the different study plans that I'm working on. As you saw, my little desktop apps are able to automatically track all of this into my Obsidian. So I have a record of how I'm working.

I also am able to put different resources and things that I learned along the way into Obsidian as well. And a tip here is that you can also use a local AI agent like Hermes, Claude Co-work, Open Claw. I it can pull information from these logs, so it's able to graph it for you, give you suggestions and tips for productivity, for example. You can also ask it like, "What was I doing 2 weeks ago, you know, at this time?" Don't know about you, but I most certainly wouldn't know that before I set up this system.

So there you have it. This is my full workflow that allows me to learn things like 10 times faster than I normally would be able to. I hope this is also useful for you, some inspo perhaps. Let me know in the comments what you think about this and also what's your current learning system. I am always interested in learning how to learn better, and I'll see you guys in the next video or live stream.