Lessons / Intermediate

Stop starting from scratch

If you've typed roughly the same prompt more than twice, you're paying a tax. The rule the best operators live by: if you do it twice, save it.

Your morning briefing is the perfect first one. Instead of retyping a four-sentence prompt every day, you save it once and invoke it by name — a paragraph becomes a single word.

Try it now

Take the prompt you keep retyping (the morning briefing is the usual suspect) and save it:

I run this most mornings: "Summarize what happened across my email and calendar since yesterday and give me the 3 things to do first." Save that as a command I can run by name so I don't have to retype it.

Then tomorrow, just invoke it by its name.

You've got it when…

You ran a saved workflow by name and got the same quality as the full prompt — without retyping it. Now do the same for the next repeated task, and the next.