Issue #225 — The Hulry Newsletter

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I've noticed the Ask button on YouTube videos for quite a while now, but I didn't find a relevant use case for it until today.

I was watching a travel video, and I thought:

“What if AI could make a well-structured list of all the spots mentioned in this video while I watch the video uninterrupted?”

So, I tried asking YouTube's Ask feature to do just that, and it worked:

When I asked it to convert the list into a sheet, it didn't create a Google Sheet or downloadable CSV, though. Instead, it listed everything in a table.

This approach also works in the Gemini app.

I gave Gemini a link to another travel video and asked it to make a list of all mentioned spots from the video in a sheet, and it did:

YouTube can't access my Google Workspace to create sheets, but Gemini can.

Unfortunately, Gemini couldn't make a wishlist of the places directly in Google Maps, but maybe that's a story for later.

For now, this is a handy way to list places from travel videos without having to pause repeatedly and note the spots ourselves.

Try it out.

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Oneline

Save your memorable event of the day

This journaling app seems interesting and low-maintenance. Record one sentence highlight or takeaway every day. That’s it. You can optionally attach photos, location, etc., but those aren’t necessary. As you record, you’ll see a scrollable timeline form to browse your one-line entries. Available on iOS and iPadOS and is free to start.

Handy Shortcut

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Shift

Quickly format selected cells to currency in Google Sheets.

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Like the author, I, too, am guilty of only lightly understanding some concepts in school and over the years that I should have spent more time exploring and understanding. This piece makes an excellent case for why and how we should learn something in a way that we truly understand the core idea or question.

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