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Hello everyone. This is Damasi Thomas and here to quickly demonstrate how I use Mac GPT to interact with the Chat GPT service. So I'm not going to go through a lot of the application. There's not really a lot there, honestly, to begin with, but I'm really just going to show you the ways that in which I use it. So I will go to some settings just to kind of show you how things are configured on my side. But most of it consists of a keyboard shortcut and typing. So I'm going to start off by have my draft window open here and that's just so I can copy and paste things in and show you how that looks. I have Mac GPT configured on my end to launch with a shortcut, and for me that shortcut is Control F Eleven. So I'm going to hit that shortcut and Mac GPT is up. Now I will explore this window and show you what's here so nobody's caught off guard when you're looking at this because there seems to be a lot of stuff that you need to deal with. But honestly, once you're configured, you're good to go. So you have a couple of options. First, you have the interface that you actually want to use, whether you're using like a native app interface, which is going to look more like a Mac app with an entry field, or if you want to use the web interface. From my current knowledge right now with this app, if you have access to GPT Four and you have access to the beta plugins or browse feature, you need to switch to the web interface here. So this is how you can do that and still just use this application. So I do switch to the web interface sometimes, but usually I'm in native, so I'm going to make sure native is selected and that's in a mode radio group. The web interface just looks like a local wrap app around the website. So if you're using Chat GPT on the web, you'll be kind of familiar with what the web interface actually looks like. But I'm in native mode because that's how I normally use it. Copy here you have copy which will copy the input and output, so it's going to copy your query as well as the answer you get back from Chat GPT. Just as a warning if you have a long going back and forth interaction, so you submit a query, you get an answer. You submit another query, get another answer, so on and so forth. If you hit Copy, it's going to copy that entire conversation. So it's copying the entire conversation, not just the last thing that you did. So if you're looking to start fresh clear, you can click this button, which is clear. And I'm going to click that now because I have no idea what my last queries were about.
Mode. Radio group, copy. So we still have the Copy shape fill. The Clear button goes away when there's not anything to clear. You don't have that. There's the gear shape button, which is settings. I will come back to those. Close the Close button type button, image. Type something to start talking to Chat GPT.
And where you want to get to is where it says Edit text. So I'm going to quickly type in a query. All right, so tell me about the podcast Double Tap Canada. And I'm going to vel left arrow. And right now you can hear voiceover kind of making these little you hear the voiceover sounds. This is indicating that this is still operating like it's still processing window. So what I'm going to do is what I normally do, which is press Escape. All right? Now I go off and do other things while I let it process its answer. Sometimes it comes back really quickly, sometimes not. So I'll just usually go off and do something else, maybe check email or continue on with the task that I was doing before I jumped into Chat GPT, I would expect. Now that it's done, so I'm going to hit CTRL F Eleven again. All right, my window has come back up. I'm going to jump to the end of the window, send and then vo left arrow from there, because that's for me. It's the quickest way to get to this list.
Send a message, edit text. Now this list is where it has my query in the answer. So I'm going to interact with this double tap. Tell me about the podcast Double Tap Canada. There's my query.
Double Tap Canada is a podcast focused on discussing technology and accessibility from Canadian perspective. The show is hosted by Steven Scott, Marcus Lalo and Sean Crease, who are all passionate about technology and how it can be made more accessible for people with disabilities. The podcast covers a wide range of topics, including latest tech news, product reviews.
And interviews with you see, we have all the answers. Now, if I want any section of this Vo Shift C to copy the last spoken text by voiceover, if I just wanted to grab, say, that first little block where it tells me who the host are on the show and what they talk about, if I want the whole conversation, I'll stop interacting. Vo left button, close your Shakespeare. Clear. Copy.
Hit copy. And now I'm going to tap Escape drafts blank window and I'm back in my drafts window. I'm going to paste in the results new line. Now, what Mac GPT does whenever you copy text, at least from that interface of Mac GPT, is, like I said, it's going to have your entire conversation. So here we have one query, one answer, person with blonde hair, it shows person with blonde hair, tell me about. The podcast double tab and then your query.
So as you're navigating through, if you have a longer conversation, person with blonde hair will always precede your query. Robot face and Robot Face will always precede the response from Chat GPT. All right? And from here, I could do any number of things with this text if I needed it for something. If I was writing up a summary, I could edit around this, because I've now pasted this into an editor in macOS. Now I want to bring Mac GPT back up. So control f eleven. And now I'm going to show you where the shortcut how you can set this shortcut.
Coffee clear, gear shake fill close dear. Shake fill, so gear shape fill, badly labeled button, but it's a gear which indicates probably settings. We're going to vo space window enable MacG.
And now I'm in the Mac GPT settings. Now, this is the settings for the entire application. And one thing I'm going to cover in these settings is where I'm now in the inline tab. One thing I want to show you in these settings is also where you put in your API key. So we have general web menu bar, menu bar, global, global inline prompt prompt and about general. So I'm going to start with the portion of the app that I'm using, which is the menu bar app, menu bar. So I'm going to veo space bar to select that type of bar. Open menu bar view, open menu bar.
View control f eleven content select open menu bar view. There's the shortcut that I set menu with. You can set your shortcut to be what you want it to be. Medium menu view width, the menu view width. I don't bother when you view stuff, but that is also here if you want to make the window wider to change the way the menu bar icon looks. But those are pretty much the settings that I rely on. Now, there's one other section you want to go to. Web general selected. I believe it's General.
Show tokens per message on check check place on when we fly. Right. Show tokens.
Show tokens per message. This will show you how many tokens are used for the queries that you submit. As the response comes back, it'll show it at the end of the response. That's good. If you're trying to keep track of how much queries are costing you, or get a rough idea, like how much are the types of queries I do, what do they tend to cost? Those tokens convert to a dollar amount or a penny amount, depending on how how big your queries are. I had this on briefly just to kind of get a rough idea. When I switched over to GPT Four. I now have turned it off because it's superfluous information and my bill is still well under $5 a month. So I'm good.
Play sound when reply rise in background. Checkbox display sound when reply arrives in background. I have that checked. I don't know if it's checked by default. I've never heard a sound in the background, so not sure. Markdown and code syntax checkbox always on top. Open API key. This is also where you put in your API key. So you're going to put in your API key here. Reset color number API model and you.
Also can pick your API model. So what does it use for the API, which would be the menu bar, the global or the inline options will use this API key. If you are in the menu bar app and you switch to the web view, you can change your model from there as well, just like you would on the website. Again, the web interface. The web view of the menu bar app is pretty much like the website just in this little window. If you have GPT Four access, you can change that to that here, or you have 3.5 turbo. Now I'm going to jump over to the global menu bar global section, because I think this is how some people may be interacting with chat GPT. With Mac GPT. And I've tried this interface. It doesn't make sense to me. There's just a blank window. I do have a shortcut set so.
I can bring it up. Content selected toggle Global Search text Field.
It's going to use the global API monitor. Now I'm closing the settings for Mac GPT when I go back to draft. So now I'm going to bring up this global window. So for me, that's option F Eleven pops up a little dialog and there's an edit box and I could type in a query, tell me hit Return and it's processing image. Another query. I have to now erase this text and put that in. I actually don't use the global, I use the menu bar. You can access the menu bar using a shortcut. You can set that shortcut as I've shown you in settings for Mac GPT. Or you can just go to your menu extras with voiceover, click on your menu bar icon for the Mac GPT application and that will launch that view. I find that to be more useful. I had never actually used the global interface. The inline part also can be useful. I found that kind of hit or miss in some applications, so I tend to stick to hitting CTRL F Eleven.
Web Radio button two of two, and. I can pick whether I want native or web copy. Clear. Hit Clear Close button, type something to.
Scroll area edit text and I just type my queries here. And then I get my answers back. That is the way that I am using Mac GPT and it's what I find to be the most useful being able to hit a shortcut. It comes up when I tap Escape back in the application that I was in. So that keeps my workflow kind of clean and smooth and as well, I just find that interface a little bit more useful. Hope this was helpful and made sense to those of you that are exploring with Chat GPT.