AI for Everyone — make AI do the work, not just chat.

For readers 45 and older: no coding, but you can still get real things done with AI. This is the archive of our WeChat articles.

Getting started

How long a parent biography is, how long it takes, and what it costs

A ordinary-life biography is often 30–80k Chinese characters over weeks or months. The cost is interviews and checking — not one-shot AI prose.

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Getting started

Questions to ask when writing your parents’ biography

Ask for time, place, people, and original wording. AI can interview; it should not invent their life.

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Tools

Turn a hard-drive of family photos into an editable birthday or graduation film

Do not start on a timeline. Build a day-and-people set, let AI draft a script, then hand a JianYing project.

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Tools

Does face recognition upload your photos? How local grouping works

Ask whether originals or face features leave your PC. Namecall groups faces on Windows locally and does not match a cloud watchlist.

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Getting started

How to sort old photos by person — on this PC first

Group the same person together first, then turn one note into an editable film. Sorting stays on your Windows PC.

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Tools

Too many photos, faces, and stories — a workflow that finds them again

Index by person first, gather by day, then make a roll-call wall, a clip, and a ticket stub you can send.

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Tools

You do not need to edit video to send a memory clip

The block is rarely editing skill. It is messy material, too many faces, and no place to begin. Line the material up first.

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Case studies

Skip the nine-grid for graduation — one photo, every name

Morning roll-call wall, noon 9:16 clip, evening ticket stub. No editing skills required, and photos stay offline.

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Case studies

Gen Z digital archaeology — turn parents’ old photos into a roll-call wall

Digital archaeology is not a filter. Name people first, then roll-call. Hide duplicate copies; do not delete originals.

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Case studies

I turned a 1998 graduation photo into a 30-second film

No retouching, no melodrama — just a three-act story from one old group photo, and a ticket stub to keep.

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Case studies

How do you sort the family letters in a drawer? I taught AI to understand Jingjiang dialect

Among more than three hundred letters, the Jingjiang dialect and local customs had to be explained line by line. The finished skill, Shiguang Jiachuan, is free in the skill market and can be used to write a family history.

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Tools

Let AI do the work, not only answer questions

A chat model can grasp a family letter and still misread a name. Why not to upload the whole letter, and how points, models, and skills work in WorkBuddy.

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Getting started

Seventy years of computers, from a room full of machines to one spoken sentence

From punched tape to getting work done with one sentence. The barrier has dropped seven times, and this is the easiest moment to start.

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