Why not just use ChatGPT?

A fair question, and we get it a lot. Here is the honest answer.

The words were never the hard bit

Almost nobody freezes in front of a room because they ran out of material. They freeze because they have too much of it, in the wrong shape, on a phone that keeps scrolling back to the top.

A chat window is built for a conversation with a computer. It hands you one long column of text. It does not know how long you have, where you are up to, or that you are three minutes over. It is the wrong thing to be holding when your hands are shaking.

What changes when you stand up

Use both. Here is the honest workflow.

1. Write it wherever you like. ChatGPT, a document, the back of an envelope. Whatever gets the words out of your head.
2. Paste it into PalmCards. It splits the text into cards you can read at a glance, and you tighten from there.
3. Rehearse it, then deliver it. Set a time per card, run it through once or twice, then present from your phone with your eyes on the room instead of the screen.

PalmCards has its own tools for drafting, splitting and tightening, so you can do the whole thing in one place if you prefer. They are there to save you the setup, not to win a writing contest.

What PalmCards will not tell you

It will not tell you that you rushed the opening, gabbled the middle, or said "um" forty times. PalmCards times you. It does not listen to you. Anything promising to make you a brilliant speaker from a phone in your pocket is selling you something.

What it does is smaller and more useful. It puts the right words in the right order, in your hand, at a size you can read, with a clear sense of how long you have left. That is usually the difference between getting through it and enjoying it.

So should you use ChatGPT?

Yes, if it helps you get the words down. It is a good writing tool and we are not going to pretend otherwise. It is just not what you want in your hand when the room goes quiet and everyone turns to look at you.