AI Tools to Create an Ebook When You Don't Know What Digital Product to Create

 A beginner-friendly guide to using AI tools to discover, develop, write, edit, and design your first digital product

You want to create a digital product using AI, but you don't know what to create.

You may have useful skills, experience, or knowledge, but you are not sure how to turn them into an ebook. You open an AI tool and ask for digital product ideas. It gives you dozens of suggestions.

Now you have another problem: Which idea should you choose?

Then you may wonder: Which AI tool should I use for research? Which one should I use for writing? How do I edit the content? How do I design the ebook?

With so many AI tools available, beginners can easily become overwhelmed.

The good news is that you don't need dozens of tools.

A Simple Alternative: Use Different AI Tools for Different Jobs

Instead of looking for one AI tool that does everything, give each tool a specific job.

Think of creating your ebook like building a house. You need to first decide what you are building, gather the right information, construct it, check the work, and then make it look good.

Your AI workflow can follow the same idea:

DISCOVER → RESEARCH → WRITE → EDIT → DESIGN → CHECK

This approach keeps the process simple and prevents you from jumping randomly between AI tools.

Why This Approach Is Better

Imagine asking one AI tool:

“Create my entire ebook about digital product ideas.”

You may receive a large amount of information, but it may not reflect your own skills or teaching style.

Instead, use AI tools one step at a time.

For example, ChatGPT can help you brainstorm, organize ideas, create an outline, draft content, rewrite sections, and improve clarity.

Perplexity can help with research by providing answers supported by citations, which can be useful when you need to investigate a topic.

Canva can then help you turn your content into a visually organized ebook. Its current AI features include writing, design generation, image creation, and document-related design capabilities.

The advantage is simple: each tool has a clear responsibility.

The New AI Ebook-Creation Framework

Use these five main tools or tool categories.

1. ChatGPT — Discover and Develop Your Idea

Start with ChatGPT.

Tell it about your skills and ask it to identify problems people experience in that area.

For example:

“My skill is interacting with people of difficult characters. List common problems beginners have when dealing with difficult people.”

Then ask:

“Which of these problems could become a useful beginner ebook?”

Once you choose a problem, ask ChatGPT to create an ebook outline.

For your example, the problem could be:

“I don't know how to deal with difficult people.”

Your ebook could become:

How to Deal With Difficult People: A Beginner's Guide to Staying Calm and Responding Wisely

ChatGPT can then help you develop the chapters one at a time.

2. Perplexity — Research the Topic

Use a research-focused AI tool when you need to investigate information, find sources, or check current facts.

For example, you could research:

• Common communication problems
• Conflict-resolution principles
• Communication techniques
• Different types of difficult behavior

Perplexity describes itself as an AI answer engine that researches the open web and provides cited answers.

Remember: don't simply copy research into your ebook. Use it to understand the subject and then explain the ideas in your own beginner-friendly voice.

3. ChatGPT — Write and Improve the Content

Return to ChatGPT after your research.

Give it your chapter outline and your own ideas.

Ask it to help you create:

• Chapter drafts
• Examples
• Exercises
• Checklists
• Reflection questions
• Summaries

You can also ask it to simplify complicated explanations.

For example:

“Explain how to stay calm during a difficult conversation using simple English, as if you are teaching a beginner.”

Then review the result and add your own experience.

4. Grammarly or an AI Writing Editor — Polish Your Draft

After writing, your ebook needs editing.

Use a writing editor to help identify:

• Grammar mistakes
• Spelling errors
• Repeated words
• Unclear sentences
• Awkward wording

Don't let the tool completely rewrite your personality out of the book.

Your goal is clearer writing, not writing that sounds like a machine.

5. Canva — Design the Ebook

Once the writing is finished, use Canva to create the visual version.

You can use it for:

• Ebook covers
• Chapter pages
• Worksheets
• Checklists
• Simple illustrations
• Page layouts

Canva's AI tools can help generate and edit designs, while its editor lets you continue refining the result yourself. Canva also supports creating designs directly from ChatGPT in supported workflows.

This means you don't have to be a professional graphic designer to create a clean-looking ebook.

A Simple Example

Suppose your skill is dealing with difficult people.

Your workflow could look like this:

ChatGPT: Find problems → choose one problem → create outline

Perplexity: Research communication and conflict-related information

ChatGPT: Develop chapters → create examples → create exercises

Grammarly: Check grammar and clarity

Canva: Create cover → format pages → add worksheets → prepare final design

You have now moved from:

“I don't know what digital product to create.”

to:

Skill → Problem → Ebook → Research → Writing → Editing → Design

Practice Exercise

Choose one skill you have.

Then complete these steps:

Step 1: Ask ChatGPT:
“My skill is ________. What problems do beginners commonly have with this skill?”

Step 2: Choose one problem.

Step 3: Ask ChatGPT:
“Suggest three ebook ideas that could solve this specific problem.”

Step 4: Ask ChatGPT to create a simple chapter outline for your chosen ebook.

Step 5: Research important facts or supporting information with a research tool such as Perplexity.

Step 6: Develop your chapters with ChatGPT.

Step 7: Edit your writing.

Step 8: Design the finished ebook in Canva.

Don't try to master every AI tool today. Learn one tool at a time and give each tool one clear job.

Take the Next Step

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Download the FREE Beginner's Guide to Creating Digital Products With AI for a simple step-by-step explanation of how to move from an idea to a finished digital product.

Conclusion

Creating your first ebook doesn't require dozens of complicated AI tools.

Start with a simple workflow:

DISCOVER → RESEARCH → WRITE → EDIT → DESIGN → CHECK

Use AI to support your thinking, research, writing, and design—but keep your own knowledge, experience, examples, and judgment at the center.

You don't need to create everything today.

Choose one skill, find one problem, choose one AI-assisted ebook idea, and start building.