Brief Summary
This video explores the use of AI in creating planner pages, highlighting the advancements since April 2023. It identifies which AI models are effective (Claude and ChatGPT) and which are not (Google Gemini and Perplexity). The process involves using AI to generate layouts, then importing and editing them in Canva. The key takeaway is that while AI can't create perfect planners yet, it significantly reduces busy work like adding dates, making it a worthwhile tool for planner creation.
- Google Gemini and Perplexity are not suitable for creating planner pages.
- Claude can generate planner pages downloadable in SVG format, which can be imported into Canva for color adjustments.
- ChatGPT can create editable PDF planners that can be uploaded and fully customized in Canva.
The video addresses the question of whether AI can assist in creating planners, contrasting the capabilities of AI in April 2023 with its current state in December 2024. Initially, AI could only provide ideas for colors, pages, and layouts but couldn't create actual pages. Now, AI can generate planner pages, and the video demonstrates how to achieve this.
Google Gemini's Imagine tool produces unsatisfactory images similar to those from early 2023, failing to create usable planner images. It cannot generate editable PDFs, instead providing lengthy descriptions that are unhelpful for AI. Perplexity also fails to create planner pages, offering extended explanations and hex codes for colors, which are unnecessary as there are faster methods to obtain this information.
Claude can create planner pages, but it requires an iterative process. The presenter starts with simple instructions for an 8.5 x 11 planner, and the initial result is basic. Tweaks are made one at a time to avoid overwhelming the AI. For example, centering dates and changing the color to purple. A layout is attached as a reference, and while Claude adapts the layout, issues like missing dates and incorrect week starts need correction through further iterations.
Once a satisfactory layout is achieved in Claude, the design is downloaded as an SVG file. This SVG file is then uploaded into Canva. While the uploaded SVG is not fully editable, users can change colors within Canva. This method is useful for creating stickers or when a near-perfect layout is achieved in Claude, eliminating the need for further edits.
ChatGPT can generate planner pages as editable PDFs. The presenter uses the same simple prompt as with Claude. The initial output is a black and white planner, which is then modified to purple. Unlike Claude, ChatGPT generates the entire year at once. The PDF is uploaded into Canva, where it becomes fully editable. Fonts and colors can be changed across the entire document, making ChatGPT ideal for creating customizable planners.
In summary, Google Gemini and Perplexity are not suitable for planner creation. Claude can produce SVG files for basic layouts and stickers, while ChatGPT excels at creating editable PDF planners. Although AI cannot yet create perfect planners, it significantly reduces the manual effort of tasks like adding dates. The presenter finds this particularly valuable, as it was the primary reason for discontinuing dated planner creation.
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0:00 can AI help you create a planner well the answer is yes oh my gosh so a year and a half ago in April of 2023 we asked this question and the answer was like a hard definite no it can help you ideate think of like complimentary colors you can help you see what's trending it can also give you some ideas for pages and layouts but it can't actually make the pages for you however fast forward to today December 2024 and answer is yes it can so I'm going to show you how to do that today let's first talk about the two llms that can not help you create planner pages so the first one is Google Gemini so inside of Gemini it will use
0:45 the Imagine tool to create an image now these images are exactly the same awful just really hideous images that we saw back in April of 2023 where I just kind of laughed at it and said this is not a planner image it will instead if you ask it to make it a PDF so that you could even edit it it tells you it can't and instead just gives you a long description which I know what you're thinking you're looking at this long description you're like this is genius I'll give like more information to the other llms that can't create planner pages and that would be a mistake because the more information especially with planner Pages I've noticed that you give the llms it will just get confused and then just do nothing it gets overwhelmed so forget about getting that description just delete it I guess you
1:31 could give those descriptions to an actual designer to recreate Pages for you but not to an AI the second one is perplexity it does exactly the same thing it just gives you a longer explanation of things that you don't want but it does identify the Colors by the actual hex codes if you need that so there are other faster ways to do that so we don't really need uh perplexity either now Claude does actually an excellent job of making planner pages but you have to like go through a process to iterate to do it so I'm going to show you Claud first and then I'll show you chat GPT so inside of here I've given it some pretty simple directions to make me an 8 and 1/2 by 11 planner so as you can see it's pretty short I didn't get very detailed I let it kind
2:17 of just think of what it wanted to do and do its thing so over here if I preview it it's looking pretty simple and it's not that pretty so I went ahead and I asked it to Center the dates so it did that I just kind of give it one tweak at a time if you try to give it too many tweaks at a time it like I said it gets overwhelmed it doesn't really give you what you want then I said hey make it purple and it kind of sort of did and then I attached a different layout that I had and I said actually just follow this layout right you could do that if you had your own layout or maybe you screenshot something else that you really liked so over here it did start changing that layout to look a little bit more like I wanted and then I said okay but the dates are missing I don't know why they went away so over here it did add the dates back in but then it did this weird thing with the
3:02 weeks so I said actually take the weeks out cuz it just looks weird so it took the weeks out so yeah it takes a few times to do that and then I asked it to do February as well so here's the thing once it does that and again it starts on a Monday for some reason instead of a Sunday and it does this weird thing too where it put the one at the bottom and so I was like actually one needs to be on the first row all by itself so it did fix that so once you have a layout that you're pretty happy with and I say pretty happy because it's never going to be perfect it's still not it's like Leaps and Bounds from where it was a year and a half ago but it's still not going to give you that perfect lay out however you have been saved by canva because what you're going to do is you're going to say code and this just looks like I know a bunch of like junk you and I this is actually an SVG file
3:49 so you're going to go over here to this download file you're going to download it it's going to save it as an SVG file then you are going to go into canva and you are going to upload it into canva inside of canva you are then going to go into your uploads folder and you'll see it there so here I am in canva I can see that SVG I just uploaded looks beautiful I'm going to go ahead and say um I can either well I don't need to download this I can use this now in a design so I can create a design where am I over here and I could just say custom size what did I say that was I said it was 11 by8 not pixel inches 118 I'll say create new design and then
4:36 what I can do is I can go over here to my uploads and I can upload that SVG right over here into my planner so is it perfect no not at all however I do have a and it's not editable that is unfortunate right um You can change the colors though on SVG so if I don't really like the black I can make this let's say green um if I don't like this purple I can make this blue if I don't like this gray I can make this pink if I don't like the white I can make it purple so that's pretty much all you can do with svgs inside of
5:23 um canva however you can edit PDFs now so if we head over to chat GPT over here I put that same exact prompt right something very simple it's going to actually give me a link for a PDF now once I have that PDF it's a little slow to iterate back and forth because I have to go out to Adobe and look at that PDF so it started out over here black and white I asked it to change it to purple then I asked it to kind of just change the formatting so the nice thing with this is instead of just doing one month at a time it actually did the whole year for me so I took this PDF and I went ahead head into canva and I uploaded that PDF and this is what you see right here now this is editable so for this
6:08 one if I want to change let's say this um font right from Open Sands I can change it to my signature neutr face and then I can say change all and now it's changed it all in the entire document if I want to change the color I can change it over here go to change all at the bottom and now it's changed everywhere inside of here so these are two methods remember I think kind of this one this SVG one might be better if you're just having uh Claude make some stickers for you it doesn't do it that well so I don't know that I'd really use it for that yet but if you had just like maybe a page layout and you kind of got it clawed to perfect it as close as you could to like almost Perfection you could just leave it there like this and
6:53 you don't have to worry about making it editable the second thing is if you do need something editable I would go to Chad GPT have it make that PDF and then you can have it uploaded into canva and then you can start editing it so in conclusion let's talk about the two llms it doesn't not work with Google Gemini perplexity cannot make planner Pages however Claud can make them but they're downloadable only in an SVG format so they have to be almost perfect and then the second one is chat GPT which can actually download it into a PDF which you can then upload into canva and that is editable so we are not not at the stage yet where we can make perfect planners but this can do a lot of that busy work for you and by busy work I mean putting the dates in I would say the reason I stopped making
7:40 dated planners is because putting the dates in was so painful uh so that alone makes this 100% worth it and at least worth I think a try at this point all right reporting back later when there are other big improvements inside of how to use AI to make planners I will definitely share them with you and remember if you would like to create your own planner make sure to sign up for my free course planner 101 I will leave a link to that below and I hope everyone's having a great start to their New Year and I'll see you later bye
