 Hello everyone. My name is Nasser and I'm a doctor living and working in London. If you've watched this channel for any period of time, then you'll know that me and Notion, we have this symbiotic relationship where we get along really well together. If you don't know Notion is an app on your computer or phone where you can build this highly customizable personalized workspace to do just about anything in your life. I personally used it throughout several years in medical school to keep track of all of my lectures, my notes and my studying. I use it to organize my day to day life and I even run this entire YouTube channel out of a Notion workspace. I've gone into great detail about what Notion is, why I love it so much and how I use it in previous videos. But in today's video, I want to talk all about Notion AI who are very kindly sponsoring this video. Notion AI takes Notion and boosts it to the next level, being a really creative writing assistant and generating text in a very useful way we've never seen before. In this video, I want to run through several examples of where I think Notion AI can be particularly helpful as a studying assistant, a writing assistant and more generally as a creative companion online. As always, you can get started with Notion for free by clicking the link in the description down below and you can unlock the power of Notion AI for just $10 a month. So this is my personalized Notion dashboard. I have all of my medical conditions that I needed to learn in order to become a doctor here. I have all the different things I need to keep track of whilst I was in medical school. But recently as a doctor, this is where I've spent most of my time. So let's open up a new page here. Let's call it AI land, give it a small little emoji and we'll get started. So in order to activate Notion AI within my workspace, I can hit the space bar and then it gives me this long list of different things I can start to do. We've got ask AI what to write, brainstorm ideas, blog posts, outline, social media posts. There's a lot going on. One of my favorite things that I've been using Notion AI for so far is write a blog post about. So blog posts and YouTube videos aren't really that different. So let's say I wanted to make a video about, you know, how to study in medical school, which is something I've made several videos on about in the past. And I can ask Notion AI to do that and it'll build out this pretty lovely and convincing outline of a potential blog post or video idea. So what have we got here? Introduction, OK, prioritize your time, utilize resources, take breaks. These are all things I will have mentioned in a previous video. If we expand on that a little bit more and we say, write me a YouTube video script for how to study in medical school. Welcome to our video on how to study in medical school. First, let's talk about prioritizing time, utilizing resources, discussing breaks. So if I think this is relatively short and I want a little bit more content to work off of, I can click continue writing. OK, so now we've added stay organized, taking care of yourself and remembering to ask questions. Great. Another one here that I really like is social media posts. So let's say write a social media post about moving to my new vascular surgery rotation. I'm so excited to start my new vascular surgery rotation. I'm sure it'll be full of new challenges, but I'm ready to take them on and make the most of this learning opportunity. Hashtag vascular surgery, hashtag medical school, hashtag med student life. And then we even have an option for write essay. Let's say write an essay about why fish populations are declining. Intro, point number one over fishing, point number two, pollution, climate change and conclusion. Notion AI is not going to produce a perfectly polished and finished version of whatever piece of work that you need to do in high school or university. And I would never, never, ever advise you to just copy paste anything that Notion AI spits out and submit it as your final piece of work in high school or university. That's just dishonest and that's not what this is supposed to do. The really useful thing about Notion AI is that it can act as a creative assistant. It can act as a source of inspiration and it can give you ideas for what to go and further research and go and further work on. And it can also help tidy up your writing, change the tone of your writing and things like that. So it's like an editing assistant as opposed to someone who you pay to write to an essay. It's not at all what this is and it shouldn't be that. So for example, if I was writing this essay, I might read through this and say to myself, I don't really know enough about what bycatch is. What is bycatch? Let me go and research that or let me just ask Notion AI, what is bycatch? Bycatch is when non-target species are unintentionally caught in fishing nets. OK, great. So now I can go ahead and I can go and research more into that. I can use these as general ideas or headings that I might not have thought of before. I mean, pollution and climate change are pretty obvious ones and overfishing, I guess, but you get the idea. So as you can see, you can use Notion AI to generate large amounts of text and then you can read through that text and you can decide, do I like this? Do I think it's accurate? Do I think it's useful? And you can use it and build on it and expand on it or you can say to yourself, you know, actually, I don't like this point. I'm not going to use it. The point is that it's helping you come up with content. It's helping you brainstorm and think about the task that you need to do. If we look at the other options on this list for draft with AI, we've got brainstorm ideas, which I want to cover a little bit later. Outline, press release, creative story, to-do list, pros and cons list, job description, sales email, recruiting email, all very useful things to help you get started. A really good practical example of what I think you could use this for is write me an email negotiating a lower rent for my lower price for my rent next year. Subject, request a lower rent for the upcoming year. Dear landlord, I'm writing to request you to lower the rent for my current rental for the upcoming year. I've been a tenant for a length of time and have been reliable and responsible throughout my stay. I'm aware of the current market conditions and understand the rental prices may be high than usual, hardware or somewhere of financial situation, etc. So, you know, this is in particular something that people hate to do, negotiating, having uncomfortable conversations with strangers or with people you don't know very well, something that people hate to do. And so being able to generate an email template like this, I think it's incredibly helpful. Let's try write me an email asking my professor for extra credit to improve my grade. I feel like this is a bit of a more complicated one, but let's see. I want to press extra credit for a name of the course. I've been a diligent student throughout the semester and worked hard on all my assignments. I'm not satisfied with my current grade and believe I'm capable of doing better. Amazing. I mean, you know, you couldn't make this up. This is extremely, extremely helpful. So throughout my time in medical school, I made this pretty comprehensive list of, you know, almost all the different possible conditions, diseases and presentations that you could find or see in a hospital or in my exams that I was studying for. So, you know, as you can see here for every general body system, we have all the different kinds of diseases or conditions that you might have. And within each one of them, some important information about it that I should remember and that would help me answer exam questions properly throughout my time in medical school, making videos about how to study and how to improve your grades, etc. I've always been harping on one important point, which is the idea of testing yourself and asking yourself questions based on the content that you are studying. Now, the reason that I've been such a big advocate for this is because I believe, and the research shows that this is the best way to get you to learn material, to actually ingest it, digest it and understand it. And one of the best ways to do this has always been with question banks or past paper exams. You study the material, you look at the questions, and you try to answer them based on the material that you've read or studied. But now, with Notion AI, we can do some really cool things, so check this out. All right, so if we go to the musculoskeletal section of my notes and we go to rheumatoid arthritis, we have the title, some important information I wanted to remember, how this condition presents when someone comes into A&E or to the GP, what investigations we can use to investigate this disease, and then how to manage it and treat it. Okay, so if I go into Notion AI and I say, write me some questions to test myself on the above material. What is the classic early feature of rheumatoid arthritis? What is the DAS28 scoring system used for? What medications are used in the initial treatment of rheumatoid arthritis? What are the risk associated with TNF-alpha inhibitors, etc., etc., etc. Okay, great. So I've very quickly generated a bunch of questions to test myself on the material that's literally right up here that I just would have read through when I was studying for this exam or reading up on this topic. And then I can go ahead and say, give me the answers to the above questions. All right, so it looks like it's continued the list over here. So not the best format, but it has correctly answered or at least attempted to correctly answer the above questions minus skipping the first one it looks like. So I mean, I guess you can just go back up and read to check if the answers are correct, but you can also ask Notion what the answers are based on the above information, which is really, really helpful. Yes, you can go to a question bank and you can probably narrow down the questions to inflammatory diseases and look at rheumatoid arthritis in particular. But if you just want to quickly ask a bunch of questions and test yourself whilst you're going studying, you can do all this without even leaving Notion. You don't have to open the web browser and go to Google and start searching things. You can do all of this stuff within Notion, within your study hub and your study zone. All right, let's try this again for another disease. Let's go into cardio aortic regurgitation. Why not generate a couple of questions? What is the message sign? Oh, great. Questions and answers. What are the causes of your aortic regurgitation to do to your aortic disease? Great. So what if I say generate me a Q and A based on the above material? Fantastic. Okay. So very, very helpful. What I wish I could do is hide the answer and then click a button to release it kind of like we have the toggles here in Notion. I did actually ask my Notion representative if that was going to be introduced in future updates. And they said that, yes, they were working on using Notion AI to integrate cleverly with the blocks in Notion. So with things like toggles, but that it wasn't working yet. Maybe soon. But anyways, I hope this kind of gives an example of, you know, maybe you're not in medical school, you're studying something else. You can just take the information that you're using for your notes, ask it to ask you questions based on the above information. And so you can very quickly and easily test yourself and check. Did I actually understand what I just read? Am I able to re-explain it to someone else in the room? So the next thing that I want to cover is the brainstorming function. This is really, really interesting. Okay. So for example, recently I wanted to purchase snowboard, snowboarding boots and bindings. And my whole life I've been renting this gear. I had no idea what to think about or what to take into account when choosing which snowboard do I want, what shoes do I want, etc, etc. And if you're like me, and before you make these types of purchases, you go into an insane amount of detail, researching every single possible option and trying to learn everything about the thing that you're about to buy, then you know that you'll find yourself on a bunch of different websites and it takes a lot of time, but it's part of the fun of the process. Now how I usually do this is I go on Google and I type in snowboarding boots. And then I open the first 10 links and I start reading about what are the different boots? What's wide versus normal? What does it mean to have a stiff boot, a medium boot, a soft boot? What does it mean to have boots that can step on into bindings versus ones that go into clips? All kinds of different things. And I just go down this massive rabbit hole. Now what would have been really useful is if I had notion AI at the time and I said to it brainstorm ideas on what to take into account when buying a snowboard and snowboarding boots. Consider the terrain you will be riding on. So this is something that I found over and over again. Are you a free park rider? Are you a off-peast rider? Are you an old mountain rider? Consider your skill level fair enough. Consider your body size and weight. So it turns out the type of snowboard you should choose is very heavily based on your weight and your height. And that's how you want to decide how tall the board is and how wide it is as well. Consider the type of bindings you want, step on versus normal, type of snowboard design. So it turns out snowboards aren't flat. They've generally got a couple of curves in them. And there's a lot of different types of curves based on what kind of snowboard you want. So these are some things that I might have never considered otherwise. And when I was going through my, you know, long deep dive rabbit hole, I might have missed some of these things. It's now being able to go out and further research on each of those things. It's going to make sure that I make the best purchase incision for myself. So I could also ask Motion AI, for example, make a table comparing the different types of snowboard bindings. Strap binding, step and binding, speed, entry bindings. Okay. Pretty small table. I'll admit, but at least a good and easy starting point. Another really useful thing that I thought of for this is before going traveling, having a checklist or a to-do list of things to remember to pack in your bag or to do before you travel. Make some ideas. Write me a checklist before travel. So passport visa, travel tickets, accommodation, vaccination records, etc., etc., etc. Very helpful. How about this? Plan me an itinerary for when I go to Milan next week. I feel like this might be a bit more difficult, but let's see. I doubt it's taking into account how close these things are to each other and how much time they take. I think that would be really next level. If it is, fair enough, that's amazing. But at least it's given me some ideas of things that I can go check out and I can go Google these things and see what they are and if I'm interested in them and if I want to do them. Another crazy thing that Notion AI lets you do is translate content within the app, within Notion itself. So we've got here this translate button and it has English, Korean, Chinese, and all these other languages. Very sadly, it doesn't have Arabic or Greek, which are the two languages I'd be able to verify, whether the translation is actually working or not. Let's give this a go. Let's translate English into Spanish. So translate this into Spanish. The duck jumped on the slide and ate a crab out of thinner. El pato salto en el tobogán y comió un cangrejo de la nada. Not even gonna lie, I have no idea if that's right or not. My Spanish has completely left my head. Let's try something I might be able to actually understand. I went for a walk with my friends in the park. You can see where my level of Spanish is. This is really exposing how good my Spanish is. We ate some ice cream and then we went to sleep. I can say with at least 50% confidence that that's at least 70% correct. So let's take it from there. Let me take this into Google Translate and see if it did anything good. Let's do from Spanish to English. I went for a walk with my friends in the park. We ate some ice cream and then went to sleep. All right, fair enough. I'll give it 10 out of 10. Let me ask you this. Have you ever been in a situation where you're writing an essay or an article or a piece of work in high school or in university and you find yourself over the word limit? I bet you have. This is something that absolutely everyone has and goes through. Something really useful you can do in AI is called make shorter or summarize and you can take text and condense it and make it shorter. So let's do an example. So here is an extract from a talk that I recently gave at Google and YouTube about the impact of YouTube videos on patients and the impact of YouTube videos to reach and power that they can have in medical education. So here's a quick sort of extract from that speech that I gave. And this sentence over here, in particular, I found difficulty phrasing. And in fact, I made it in bold so that I would look down at my piece of paper and read it word for word to make sure that I didn't stumble it or say incorrectly when I was up on stage. I want to see if Notion AI can do a better job of reading this sentence. I think the real-life impact creators can have by making medical education content on a platform like YouTube might actually have a more significant impact on the well-being of patients than our in real life day-to-day practice. Notion AI, can you please make this shorter? Creators making medical education content on YouTube can have a more meaningful impact on patients than daily medical practice. Okay, it is shorter. I don't think gets across quite the strength of the impact and delivery that I was trying to do. So let's try that again. Creators making medical education content on platforms like YouTube could have a bigger impact on patients than our in real life practice. Okay, I like that better because it focuses on the in real life practice. Pretty much taking this sentence and cut it in half, which makes it easier to understand it's the same thing, just less words and more to the point. Nice. So I can replace selection if I want, which replaces the original text, but I can also just insert it below, which is probably what I'm gonna end up doing. What I also want to do is make this shorter. So this paragraph here, make shorter. So let's say this is an essay that I was writing and I've gone through it multiple times, tediously trying to cut out individual words to try and get closer and closer to the word limit. I can use this tool to give me a good idea of where I can cut things out and where I can cut through the fluff. So here you see it's taken this decently long paragraph and cut it down into just three lines. So now I can say to myself, do these three lines adequately represent what I'm trying to say above and maybe I just use one of these shortened sentences. Maybe I use two. Maybe I use none. But the point is that it gave me an option and it gave me something that I can be inspired by and think about. Does this work? Do I want to use this? So as you hear, my YouTube channel has 80 million views, 10 million for each of your unique individuals and my 40 year career of training patients, I may treat 50,000 patients. It's easy to understand the impact each channel can have on its audience. Easy to underestimate. Even if the impact is smaller per person will multiply to cost 10 million adds up fast. I mean, not gonna lie, I actually think this is a really good summary of this paragraph above. I think maybe when you're giving a talk on stage and you want to have a little bit more sort of dramatic emphasis and things, it helps to have a little bit more of a story narrative in the paragraph. But if I was writing an essay, this is a good way to go. Now besides making things shorter, it can also make things longer. So let's say I'm a little bit stuck and I want to fill up my word count to reach the word limit, which happens sometimes. Let's see if we can make this longer. That worked well. So one of the useful things you can ask Notion AI to do is to summarize. Okay. So let's say we have a new topic that we're learning that we don't understand very well. And we kind of just want to understand the main details of it. Summarize a big chunk of information into a smaller ones so that we can try and better wrap our head around it. How Jet Propulsion works. Something I don't know about. Okay. So let's go on to this. This is how you know the information is good. All right. It's on a website built in the 1990s or early 2000s. We're going to copy this. I'm going to paste into Notion. Cool. So now I'm going to say summarize. Boom. Turbofan engine consists of X, Y and Z. The fan sucks in air which then compresses mixed with fuel and a combustor generating hot expanding gas spins around the inside of the instrument. I think the fan is compressing and that looks like it's hot and cold air. I'll take that. That's really good to be honest. What is that? Six paragraphs and summarized into four lines. That's really useful. Let's think of another topic that I definitely don't understand very well. What planets are made of? Astronomy.com. I'll take it. Copy into Notion. Come on. Give me something good. Spectroscopy is a method used by astronomers to determine the composition of stars, planets and other objects involving instruments about light from larger wavelengths. Great. So we can take topics that I understand very little to nothing about and we can summarize them so that it makes it easier to digest and easier to understand. All right. So let's talk about tone of writing. Traditionally, this is something that I've been really, really bad at. And I remember this is something I'd always go to my sister Noor or my girlfriend Alexia about and I'd say, hey, can you please help make this sound a little bit more professional? Because a lot of my talking is just casual. So I think to demonstrate this what would be really interesting is if we took the intro that I said in this video about 15, 20 minutes ago or however long this video is and copied it here and we pasted it here. So this is pretty much exactly what I said at the very beginning of this video. And hopefully it was in a casual and friendly tone where you felt like we knew each other and we were a bit friendly with each other and it wasn't professional, overly robotic, etc. That's what I was going for anyway. So if we highlight this and we ask AI to change the tone, assuming it was casual and friendly, let's see if we can change it into professional. My name is Nasser and I'm a doctor based in London. I've been utilizing Notion for a variety of tasks in my life, such as note-taking and studying law and medical school, managing the YouTube channel and organizing my personal life. I've already discussed why I find Notion so helpful in prior videos. I've provided the links for further reference. I'm pleased to present the Notion AI who have generously sponsored this video. Okay, I'd say that did a pretty good job of formalizing the speech, making it more professional and confident, I guess. That's how I would describe that. Let's see if we can highlight the same thing and ask AI to change the tone to straightforward. Okay, I'd say pretty close, but it looks like the sentence lengths are shorter and it's just a lot more This is what I would describe as robotic and hopefully not what my videos sound like. And then finally, I think let's see if it can make it even more friendly or even more casual. Hi everyone, exclamation mark. My name is Nasser and I'm a doctor living and working in London. Many of you know that I'm a huge fan of Notion. It's an app that helps you create customized workspaces tailored to you. I've used to take notes and study during medical school to manage my YouTube channel even more as my personal life. I talked about Notion in detail in some of my earlier videos so I'll include those here. Now let's talk about the topic of this video, Notion AI, who are kindly sponsoring this video. You know what? Maybe before I started this video, I should have run my script through Notion AI and asked it to make it more friendly and more casual before before hitting record because I think that actually sounds pretty good. Interesting. Okay, maybe my next video will be edited by Notion AI. We'll see. We'll see. All right. And so I think that's it. That's the end of this video. I hope I've been able to show you a couple of particularly useful examples of how Notion AI can be used to help you with your studying, to help you with your writing, and for being this online creative companion. Like I said before, please don't use Notion AI to just generate something, copy it, and then submit it as your own work. That is not at all what the point of this is. It should instead be used as something to help inspire you, to help give you ideas, to help you with your research, and to act as an assistant. I mean, think about how useful this is in getting over writer's block. You're sitting down with an essay to write ahead of you and you're staring at a blank page. You know, or I'm sitting down, I want to write a YouTube video script and I'm staring at a blank page. That is some of the highest activation energy that exists, you know, before you start the piece of work. And so being able to type a prompt into Notion and it giving you a sort of outline or a skeleton structure or further things to research, I think is incredibly, incredibly helpful. And I've already been using it since I got access to Notion AI about a couple of weeks ago and I'm definitely going to be using it moving forward. Thank you again to Notion for sponsoring this video. You can find links in the description down below to download Notion for free and you can unlock the power of all this Notion AI stuff for $10 a month. If you're interested at all, make sure you check it out and I will see you in the next one. Bye-bye.