User-created AI Tools and Workspaces for Family History: Structured Data from Multimedia

Still typing the same prompt into ChatGPT and hoping for magic? In **Developer Tools and Workspaces**, Steve Little (AI Genealogy Insights) demonstrates how real-world developers extract structured data from photos, recordings, and film reels—then keep every step reproducible and affordable. Walk through three tool tiers—a playground for instant OCR, an IDE for evolving prompts, and a cloud notebook that turns multimedia into a searchable event log. Take home plug-and-play code, a workspace template, cost-control tips, and an ethics checklist to transform your own archives immediately.