AI Toolkit #3: seven free features worth knowing
Seven AI features that cost nothing extra: Gemini Skills, making a smaller allowance last, a ChatGPT privacy check-up, flashcards, pronunciation help and more.
This AI Toolkit is about getting more from tools you already have without paying more. With free Gemini users losing Google's Flash and Pro models on 9 October, it's a good moment to learn the features that are still free, and the habits that stretch a smaller allowance further.
There are seven tips: turning repeated jobs into one-word shortcuts in Gemini, making a tighter allowance last, a five-minute ChatGPT privacy and security check-up, built-in flashcards and quizzes for revision, a pronunciation coach, Claude artifacts that remember things between visits, and pulling in files from Dropbox, Box or SharePoint without downloading them first. Each tip covers how to switch it on, when it helps, and which plans and countries get it. There's a prompt to copy at the end.