Better prompts
Prompt design 9 min setup
Turn a successful conversation into a reusable prompt template
Extract the task contract, variables, decision rules, and checks that actually produced a useful result
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Practical AI text prompt templates
AI text prompt templates for writing, research, planning, decisions, meetings, learning, and everyday work, with examples and result checks
These recipes turn a real task and the context only you know into a complete text prompt. Each one preserves missing information as an explicit gap, shows a worked example, and includes checks for the result.
How to use this collection
- Choose by the outcome you need, not by a model persona.
- Fill only the context that can change the result.
- Review the generated prompt and its result checks before use.
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318 recipesEveryday planning
Family life & personal administration 6 min setup
Turn a repair problem into a service brief
Organize symptoms, conditions, history, impact, and safe observations without inventing a diagnosis
Open recipePersonal productivity
Personal productivity 5 min setup
Turn a messy task list into a realistic day
Build a feasible day from fixed commitments, real capacity, task estimates, energy, and trade-offs
Open recipeCover letters
Cover letter writing 5 min setup
Turn a cover letter into a short application email
Condense the strongest role evidence into an email that complements rather than repeats attachments
Open recipeRead clearly
Document reading 6 min setup
Turn a long document into an actionable summary
Condense a document around decisions and next steps while preserving evidence and uncertainty
Open recipeLanguage practice
Translation & language learning 5 min setup
Translate text while preserving facts, numbers, and proper nouns
Produce a usable translation with a protected-term ledger and explicit uncertainty notes
Open recipeCareer preparation
Career & job search 8 min setup
Tailor a resume without inventing experience
Reorder and clarify verified evidence for a role while leaving genuine gaps visible
Open recipeUser insights
Product & user research 9 min setup
Synthesize usability issues from test notes
Turn session observations into evidence-counted usability issues without blaming participants or overstating prevalence
Open recipeResearch insights
Research & analysis 9 min setup
Synthesize research findings with explicit limitations
Combine findings into calibrated conclusions without erasing uncertainty, heterogeneity, or missing evidence
Open recipeTeam growth
People, hiring & development 9 min setup
Summarize team themes from an anonymous survey
Aggregate ratings and comments into privacy-safe themes with denominators, variation, counterevidence, and limits
Open recipeCompare options
Shopping & product decisions 9 min setup
Summarize product reviews while preserving sample bias
Aggregate product-review themes with denominators, model and use context, verification, duplicates, time trends, counterevidence, and selection limits
Open recipeSpreadsheet insights
Excel & spreadsheets 6 min setup
Split combined fields into Excel columns
Separate names, addresses, or codes using verified delimiters and exception flags
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