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Colin and Samir demonstrate how to build a custom AI skill using Google Gemini's Spark feature to automate YouTube intro writing, based on their proven four-part formula. The skill automatically accesses their Google Drive documents, asks refining questions, and generates scripts in their brand style, even proactively checking their calendar for new recording sessions.
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The perfect YouTube intro has four parts: confirm the click, establish the video, make it personal, and open up a new loop.
Go to Google Gemini, switch to the Spark tab, go to skills, and ask it to help write YouTube intros. It automatically finds relevant documents in Google Drive.
The skill generates a script broken into the four sections in a Google Doc, using the brand's font and colors, and even suggests potential titles.
The skill checks the user's calendar every morning at 9 AM and offers to write a new intro when it detects an interview or podcast recording.
The AI provides an amazing starting point, solving the blank page problem and ensuring consistency by enforcing the creators' own rules.
This AI skill not only saves time but enforces creative consistency, making it a powerful tool for creators who struggle to follow their own best practices.
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What are the four parts of the perfect YouTube intro formula?
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What are the four parts of the perfect YouTube intro formula?
Confirm the click, establish the video, make it personal, and open up a new loop.
Which Google Gemini tab do you use to build a skill?
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Which Google Gemini tab do you use to build a skill?
The Spark tab.
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How does the skill find the user's intro rules?
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How does the skill find the user's intro rules?
It automatically searches Google Drive for a document containing the rules.
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What additional formatting can the skill apply to the generated document?
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What additional formatting can the skill apply to the generated document?
It can use the brand's font and colors.
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How often does the skill check the user's calendar?
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How often does the skill check the user's calendar?
Every morning at 9:00 AM.
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What problem does the skill solve besides the blank page problem?
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What problem does the skill solve besides the blank page problem?
It solves the consistency problem by enforcing the creators' own rules.
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💡 Key Takeaways
Four-Part Intro Formula
Provides a proven framework for engaging YouTube intros.
Automatic Document Discovery
Demonstrates AI's ability to integrate with existing workflows without manual setup.
00:45Proactive Calendar Check
Shows how AI can anticipate needs and prompt action, saving time.
01:45Consistency Over Perfection
Highlights that AI helps enforce best practices, not just generate content.
02:15Full Transcript
I built something to help us write our YouTube intros for all of our episodes with creators cuz the most important part of a video is the first 30 seconds and we have come up with a four-part formula for how to build the perfect intro. It's confirm the click, establish the video, make it personal, and open up a new loop, but we never take our own advice. Wait, we rarely take our own advice. We have come up
with a solution to this problem. It's called a skill and you can build it using Spark in Google Gemini. >> So Google Gemini was a title sponsor of our event Press Publish and you hosted a session on stage with David who's a creative technologist running through three ways that creators can use Google Gemini in their process and building a skill was the one that everyone reacted to. Every creator in the crowd was taking notes. Everyone came
up to David to ask him about it afterwards. So we want to walk you through how this worked on stage. >> Okay, so here's how it works. You just go into Google Gemini, you switch over to the Spark tab, and then you go down to skills. And I just asked if it would help me write my YouTube intros. That's it. And it actually just found the document where we have written out all of the rules in
my Google Drive. >> Oh, you didn't I did not ask it to do that. Whoa. >> It just said we found your doc The Anatomy of a Colin and Samir YouTube intro and it just used that. It asks you a series of questions just to refine it. I answered those. So then I just wrote in, "Can you write me a YouTube intro?" And the output is the script broken down into the four sections in a Google
document. And now that this is done, I can just continue to refine it. I then asked if it would make the document in the font that we use as well as the colors that we use. Then I asked if it would put titles at the top of the document, potential titles we could use. >> Wow. >> And the last thing I did was ask it to be proactive and look at my calendar and if it sees
an interview or a podcast recording, ask me if I want an intro. And now it checks my calendar every morning at 9:00 a.m. and will ask me if I want a new intro according to what's on my calendar. >> Wow, that's crazy. >> And I'm not saying that it gets you 100% of the way there and you should just take whatever it gives you, but it's an amazing starting point. >> It solves the blank page problem
for us, but more so it solves the problem of us not following our own rules and fundamentals. >> Yeah. >> It solves a consistency problem for us. >> And that's just one example for intros. I mean, this could apply to so many different things within our process.