I had an intention earlier this year to put AI in my writing process, but unfortunately haven’t had the time or availability to work on that project! My position has been evolving to meet the company’s needs, and unfortunately, they don’t need as many of my writing or documentation skills anymore.

I’m still planning on formally structuring an experiment to see if I can add AI to my writing process, but that will likely come sometime next year instead.

So this post isn’t completely useless, here are some of the ideas I had to get me started:

• Drafting terminology definitions
• Rewording paragraphs or sentences that are too long, wordy, or don’t make sense
• Create images – the category images on my blog are all created by AI using “blue haired person” as the descriptor and an action (typing, working, thinking, etc.) — I usually rely solely on screenshots and workflow graphics I create in my user guides, so this will be fun to play with
• Outlining with a top-down approach (most important information first)

Hope to check in again in a few months with some real analysis on how I can use these tools (or why I’m not going to).