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Build Your Library of Reusable Prompts With Variables

Stop digging through your history. Turn your best prompts into templates with variables, store them simply, and keep only the ones that get used.

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Getting started

Your Prompt Isn't Working: A 5-Question Diagnosis

Generic, off-target, too long, or wrong answers: five questions to ask yourself, in order, to find what's wrong with your prompt.

3 min read

Sell your prompts

Showing a sample result on your listing

How to choose the case, build realistic fictional data, and present a real result from your prompt, without touching it up or making it misleading.

3 min read

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Consistent Characters in AI Images: The Image-by-Image Method

Character sheet, reference images, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion: how to keep the same face and the same outfit from one image to the next.

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Product Photos With AI: Possibilities and Limits

Changing the backdrop of a real photo, creating a mood, avoiding misleading the customer: what AI allows for illustrating a product, and what it distorts.

4 min read

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Realistic AI portraits: avoiding the plastic look

Smooth skin, vacant stare, catalog smile: what gives away an AI portrait, the words to remove from your prompt, and the ones that make a face believable.

4 min read

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Negative prompts: how to use them well, tool by tool

Why your 40-word list is useless, how to write a negative prompt that works, and what changes between Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and FLUX.

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Prompts for Nonprofits: Meeting Notices, Minutes, and Grant Applications

A general meeting notice that complies with your bylaws, minutes done in twenty minutes, a clear grant application: prompts for volunteers.

3 min read

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Prompts for project managers: scoping, risks, and meeting minutes

A scoping note that asks the right questions, a risk register, meeting minutes with actions and owners: prompts for project managers.

4 min read

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Prompts for Salespeople: Prepare a Meeting, Follow Up, Handle Objections

Prepare a meeting in ten minutes, follow up without "just circling back," practice objections: prompts for salespeople.

4 min read

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Prompts for video creators: ideas, scripts, and descriptions

Find angles that sound like you, write a hook, pull titles, chapters, and a description out of a finished video: prompts for video creators.

4 min read

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Prompts for Developers: From Bug to Code Review

Hypothesis-driven debugging, diff review, characterization tests, SQL migrations: precise prompts that prevent fixes that miss the mark.

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