Home>AI Courses>Personal Productivity in the Age of AI>Lesson 16

Personal Productivity in the Age of AI

Module 4 — Codifying Expertise as Skills

Lesson 16: Memory, Slash Commands, and Outcome-Named Shortcuts

Last updated: 2026-05-12

Two small layers turn a tidy assistant setup into something yours: persistent memory across sessions, and named shortcuts that make a recurring move take one command. Name them after the outcome, not the mechanism.

Lesson 16: Memory, Slash Commands, and Outcome-Named Shortcuts

Blackboard

Persist the preferences; name the outcomes

12 min
Pause and Think

Of the corrections you have made to an assistant in the last month, how many would you have to make again if you started a new session right now?

Practice Question

Question

Does not count for certificate
Choose one answer, use the hint if needed, then check your answer.
Use the hint before checking if you need a nudge.