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IAN HANDRICKS GENEALOGIST ● BUSINESS ENGINEER ● TEACHER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Your family heritage researched and published LINKS TO AI & OTHER USEFUL APPLICATIONS GETTING STARTED Click on buttons to learn more AI is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines. To start using AI the strong recommendation is to begin by signing up with the free version of chatGPT (Version 3.5). To do this - click on the CHATGPT button and then register as a new user. Also click on CHATGPT MANUAL button to get excellent user guide to the system Then learn to write good prompts - use my notes (select GREAT PROMPTS button) And when you are confident, upgrade to version 4.0 (approx. US$20/month) and install and use plugins - (select PLUGINS button to learn how) CHATGPT CHATGPT MANUAL GREAT PROMPTS PLUGINS INDEX TO BUTTONS EXCELLENT APP! Click on any button to access AI application AI WORDS CHATGPT PERPLEXITY INSTA NOVEL ARTICLE GEN BARD AI STORY WRITER TEXT TOOLS AI WRITE TOOLS QUIZMAKER FAQ GENERATOR WORD APPS NAMELIX GPT FOR CHROME STORY WIZARD AI WRITER AI IMAGES BEST COLOUR PLAYGROUND FOTOR REMOVE BG SCRIBBLE CLEANUP PIX ANIMATE DEEP STORY HERO FORGE DALL-E ENHANCE HUMAN GEN WHITE BG BACKGROUNDS PHOTO AGER AUTO DRAW NIGHT CAFE GETMG.AI PHOTOEDIT BIGJPG REMOVE BG2 RESTORE SKYBOX COLOURISE DIFFUSION CRAIYON TIME PHOTOS HOTPOT AI GEN CRAFT NVIDIA LEONARDO PICRYL PATTERNED D-ID PROMPTCHAN PICWISH PAINT BY NUMBER PHOTOPEA PIC TO LINE AI MUSIC AIVA BEATBOT BEATOVEN SPLASH MUBERT BOOMY JUKEBOX MUSIC MAP SOUNDFUL MUSIC EXTRACT SPEECH SYNTH RIFFUSION SOUNDDRAW MURF LOUDLY SONOTELLER PLAY HT AI OTHER TINY WOW SEEING.AI UNSCREEN RADIO GARDEN ASK PDF FORMULA BOT LUMEN 5 PERSONAL.AI LOGO MAKER ICON FINDER MATH SOLVER WHICH BOOK OPEN LIBRARY TALK TO BOOKS PI HUEMINT E-SIGN PDF FONTJOY TRANSVRIBE NO WATERMARK WHIMSICAL SLIDESGO AI TOOLS AI SLIDESHOW CHATGPT PLUGINS PROMPTS EASY WITH AI PROMPT VINE FREE AI KIT ALL AI SITES WORD COUNT JPG TO PDF AI TOOLS ONLINE OCR SHAREDROP COPYCHAR NEWSPAPERS INTERNET ARCHIVE JPG TOOLS CLIP INTER DEEP CLEAN GREAT PROMPTS AI BOOK AI PORTRAITS PLUGIN TIPS PLUGIN LIST PLUGINS CHATGPT MANUAL PROMPTS MANUAL HOW CHATGPT WORKS AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours AI

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Your Life Story SCHEDULE This is a step by step guide to recording your and your family’s life story and a guide to providing photos for the book. GUIDE TO WRITING YOUR BIOGRAPHY GROUP ACTIVITY Overview Your life and the lives of your family are important. You have taken on challenges and won the day. You moved the human condition forward and bettered the earth. Tell your story and Inspire yourself and others! You will leave a legacy – your story and the story of your family. You may think you have lived an unremarkable life, but succeeding generations will be interested in hearing it. What you consider normal and mundane will be interesting and slightly exotic to them. You will help protect the history of your family. You may be telling all the stories you can about your life and your take on things, but that won’t assure you that it will be remembered the way you are telling it! We rely on written or recorded information much more than verbal histories. Record your story and make sure it is woven into the history of your family. You may inspire someone else with your story. Remember those challenges you conquered? What about those problems you solved? Someone else, somewhere on the planet needs to hear how you did those things. They need to understand that it is possible and they need to be inspired by the way you conquered and solved them. It opens the door to reconcile open issues from your past. When you review your life from start to present, you will encounter unresolved items. Reviewing your life and accomplishments can cause you to see how you have overcome real and perceived obstacles such as these. Reflection can help you move past the feelings and perhaps provide a path to reconciliation with relatives and friends. Summary Writing your biography: Provides an opportunity for self-reflection and self-awareness. Helps to process and make sense of life experiences and emotions. Allows you to pass on your legacy and values to future generations. Can serve as a therapeutic tool for healing and growth. Gives you a chance to document important events and memories for posterity. Offers a creative outlet for self-expression and storytelling. Helps to clarify personal goals and aspirations. Enhances communication and relationship-building skills. Improves writing skills and creativity. Can be a source of inspiration and motivation for others. "I WAS BORN..." IDEAS FOR YOUR STORY IAN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY 7 AGES WHAT TO INCLUDE Definition An autobiography is a nonfiction story of a person’s life, written from their point of view. A memoir is a type of autobiography that focuses on a particular period in the author’s life rather than their whole life. It is best to record an autobiography. An autobiography should include all the most important details of your life story and/or the life story of the family member about whom your write. What to Include in your Autobiography A description of your personal origin story. This can include your hometown, your family history, your formative years, some key family members and loved ones, and touchstone moments in your education. Profile people and teachers who have influenced you. How did you get your name? What have been your nicknames? Write about you personality - why you are like you are and what triggers your emotions Significant experiences. Add accounts of each personal experience that shaped your worldview and your approach to life in the present day. Detailed recollections of episodes from your professional life - often these are the turning points that your autobiography will be known for the moments that would inspire someone to pick up your book in the first place. Be sure to give them extra care and attention. Personal stories of failure. Follow your setbacks with a good story of how you responded to that failure. Your philosophy on life. What wisdom would you like to leave to your family? What aspects of life are important to you? How do you define your character? Write about the people that have inspired you. Who were or are your role models? Why or how did they affect you. What are the events that have defined you? What significant events have helped shape your destiny, outlook on life, relationships etc.? What do you aspire to? Your romantic life, your faith, your aspirations, your dreams and your spiritual profile Profile your family. Describe those closest to you and their character. Their lives and your relationship with them. Their influence on you. Write about your friends, your pets, your workmates and your sporting and/or club companions. Discuss your passions - your favourite authors, movies, music and songs, art, theatre, food and drinks, games and activities, desires etc. talk about your dates, engagement, wedding and break-ups. Talk about being a parent -giving birth, nurturing, educating and how you might have helped shaping the next generation Write about your belief systems, your politics and your relationships with the community Write about where you have lived. The country, the town, village, suburb and the homes you occupied etc. – what are the favourite memories Profile your travels. Where have you been? What were your experiences? Favourite places? People you met. Friends you made. Life-changing experiences. Talk about things that have triggered your emotions. Things that made you proud, sad, happy, excited, disappointed, angry, terrified, joyous, laugh, cry etc. Write about your significant achievements in life. Honours gained, inventions, awards, trophies, educational awards, workplace moments etc. Write about your career. Why you chose it, milestones and achievements, etc. Write about things that you have collected, built, crafted, painted, made and dabbled. Write about your cars, caravans and modes of transport - what is your dream vehicle? Write about famous and notable people that you've met, people you wish you hadn't met and those you would like to meet IDEAS 1 IDEAS 2 IDEAS 3 IDEAS 4 IDEAS 5 Step-by-step Process Procrastination is your worst enemy! Make a start … “I was born…” Use a structured approach – Create your major headings, then sub-headings for each major etc. as below – then simply write sentences where required. Major headings Sub headings Sub-sub headings Key words Sentences I have prepared a long list of prompts to help you write your story or the story of another family member. They are a sequence of simple memory joggers that will help you structure your story or, for that matter, a story for anybody who has a story to be told. Not every prompt requires an answer and some may be irrelevant, but using a prompt system makes the task so much easier. (n.b. If all you can do is to answer the prompt questions with brief replies and you do not have the ability to write the story, I can generally create the prose required from your answe rs) ... The seven ages of our lives can also be a great help in getting some structure to your story. I have prepared a simple document which will help ... As an example, my biography is on-line and can be viewed and read on-line at ... "I WAS BORN..." LIST OF PROMPTS SEVEN AGES IAN'S STORY AI Writing Tools - CHATGPT Recently one of the most significant developments in technology has been released – AI (Artificial Intelligence) text and image generators. ChatGPT, created by a company called OpenAI, is a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology that allows you to have human-like text created. The language model can answer questions, and assist you with tasks such as composing emails, essays, and code. OpenAI is also responsible for creating DALL-E, a popular AI art generator. ChatGPT is the fastest growing app of all time. In January, only two months after its launch, UBS analysis estimates that ChatGPT had 100 million active users! ChatGPT can write and debug computer programs, compose music, teleplays, fairy tales, and student essays; answer test questions (sometimes, depending on the test, at a level above the average human test-taker); write poetry and song lyrics. ChatGPT remembers previous prompts given to it in the same conversation; journalists have suggested that this will allow ChatGPT to be used as a personalized therapist. To prevent offensive outputs from being presented to and produced from ChatGPT, queries are filtered through OpenAI's company-wide moderation API, and potentially racist or sexist prompts are dismissed. ChatGPT can write introduction and abstract sections of scientific articles, which raises ethical questions. Several papers have already listed ChatGPT as co-author. You can use CHATGPT extremely effectively to help you write your story: Tell it to rewrite from the 1st to the 3rd person Ask it to describe your hometown in a particular year Get it to write prose from a bundle of facts Ask it to write an emotional passage for your book Get it to proofread your book Get it to rewrite a particular section in a specific style Ask it to write about a particular time in history in your lifetime Ask it correct your spelling and grammar Ask it to translate any text from any language Get it help you when you have writers block Test out your writing ideas by asking it to evaluate your writing To use CHATGPT to help you write your story ... Download the PROMPTS TABLE (see button to right -->) Answer a number of questions Drag mouse over questions and answers and COPY (CONTROL C) Open CHATGPT Enter "write prose in 1st person - [then paste info from PROMPTS TABLE (CONTROL V) ] This will convert all your answers into nicely written paragraphs ready for your book! CHATGPT LINK DALL-E LINK CHATGPT PROMPTS WHAT IS AI VOICE RECOGNITION PROMPTS TABLE CHATGPT LINK CHATGPT EXAMPLE ystory Sources for your story There are many sources for reinvigorating your memories and making it significantly easier to write your life story. These can be: Your photos Your family Your diaries and journals Your home Your friends After a long life, it can be sometimes difficult to remember specific incidences in your time on planet Earth! There are many things that you may have collected, saved or have access to that will help prompt you into remembering important things in your life: Pets you’ve owned Houses you’ve lived in – Photos/Plans Cars Collections Humour/Cartoons Your heroes Your friends World Events during your lifetime Locations you remember People Associated with Locations Workplace/Colleagues Clubs/Associations Certificates Newspaper Clippings Book Covers Maps – Google Earth Street Views – Google Maps Poetry Afterword War – Medals/Ships/Battle Details Cemetery – gravesites/ headstones Signatures Sports Popular Culture of the times – Films/Books/People/Politics School work from childhood Advertisements of the times Fashion of the times Notable connections Plunket cards/books Music – Yours/of the times GETTING STARTED WEATHER ON BIRTHDAY DAY OF BIRTH DAY IN HISTORY MY BIRTHDAY FACTS BIRTHDAY SYMBOLS BIRTHDAY PERSONALITY BIRTHDAY CALCULATOR 1st & 3rd Person Writing First and third person are ways of describing points of view. First person is the I/we perspective and Third person is the he/she/it/they perspective. While first-person writing offers intimacy and immediacy between narrator and reader, third-person narration offers the potential for both objectivity and omniscience. My preference is 1st person for a personal life story: First-person point of view, of course, can only speak for the narrator and can only see things through the first-person narrator’s eyes. Writing in first-person should come naturally if you’re used to writing journal entries, blog posts, or personal essays. First-person establishes a kind of intimacy between the narrating character and the reader. It also invites the reader to identify with the one narrating the story from their perspective. First-person is more subjective than third-person, which can be a problem if the reader finds it difficult to identify with the narrator’s attitudes, reactions, and general worldview. If they do resonate with the reader, though, first-person can draw the reader in more effectively than a dispassionate third-person narrative of the same story. Templates A number of websites provide pre-designed templates that allow you to write your story by entering information at various places and then the template package does the rest. Some of these templates can be found by clicking on the buttons to the right → PDF FILLER MY LIFE STORY THE LIFE STORY PERSONAL LIFE LIFE STORY OUTLINE Publishing Options You don't necessarily need to write a book to publish your life story - there are many options available to you: Publish a book Create a photographic history (album with captions) Create a website Create and publish an eBook Make a children's book of family stories aimed at the young generation Record your story as a video (upload to YouTube) Make a sound recording of your life Publish a photobook with stories Engage a professional ghostwriter Set your life story to music Detail you life as a poem Creative Ideas To make your published story interesting, you might consider incorporating some of these ideas in your work (I used most of these in my autobiography - deliberately to make the finished book more interesting, a chance to present my philosophy and outlook on life and the challenge to be more creative): Place a quote in the footer of every page (share your philosophy on life) Use a poem as the introduction to the book (use CHATGPT to help you write it) Write an "Afterword" to be the last page of the book outlining the wisdom you would like to pass onto the next generation Create a gallery of your friends (headshots with names) Create a gallery of your workmates and colleagues Create a gallery of school photos - even better if you can track down headshots of your favourite teachers Insert a relevant cartoon or caricature Include any press releases that you may have had about yourself Include photos of your pets Include floorplans of your homes Have a gallery of certificates and awards you may have earned Set aside a part of the book where you can say "thank you" to those that have helped you on your way in life Choose carefully the title of your book (I chose "The Pursuit of Wisdom" because it sums up my main goal in life) Perhaps include a section called "My bucket list" where you can detail what you would still like to achieve in life Invite family and friends to write a paragraph or two about you and include in the book - in other words testimonials POEM SAMPLE SCHOOL SAMPLE FRIENDS SAMPLE PRESS SAMPLE SAMPLE TESTIMONALS