
Here’s How ChatGPT "Projects" will 10X Your Workflow
From The Prompt by Jim Carter
February 9, 2026 · 5 min · Episode 166
About this episode
Jim Carter discusses how using 'Projects' in AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude can significantly enhance workflow and organization.
“Post-it notes won’t scale.” That’s the opening punch in Jim’s latest episode, and honestly, it’s the perfect summary for the chaos most of us feel every time we open ChatGPT or Claude. If you’ve ever found yourself sifting through a jumble of half-baked ideas, code snippets, and forgotten dinner plans in your AI chat history, you’re going to want to tune in. Jim takes us on a walk through the mess—and then shows us the exit. The main focus here? Projects. Not just as folders for your chats, but as persistent, context-rich workspaces that actually remember what matters to you. Jim breaks down how, up until now, every new AI chat is like talking to someone with amnesia. Re-explaining your preferences, re-uploading docs, teaching the same lesson again and again. Projects, he argues, are the fix: set things up once, and your AI becomes an extension of your brain, not just a glorified search bar. He dives into how ChatGPT and Claude approach Projects differently. ChatGPT acts like the operating system for your AI work—connecting voice, image, code, and text, all with slick image generation baked right in. Claude? It’s the heavyweight for long, technical docs, with double the memory…
People in this episode
Host: Jim Carter
Topics covered
- AI projects
- workflow improvement
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- digital organization
- productivity
Keywords
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- AI projects
- workflow
- digital organization
- productivity
- context-rich workspaces
Mentioned in this episode
Products: ChatGPT, Claude
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