Organizing your AI prompts

I'll admit that I'm not great at organization. I'm the kind of guy who puts something valuable in a safe place, can't remember where that place is when I really need it, and then discovers the item tucked into a pair of socks four months later. I don't want to lose my valuable prompts in the same way. I want to be able to find them whenever I need them. So let's start by looking at the ChatGPT interface. If you look at the left column over here, you'll see that it contains all of your conversations. You can use that as a way of organizing your prompts using one prompt per conversation and coming back to it whenever you need to repeat the prompt on a different input. But that doesn't work for everything, and some important prompts are going to end up way down this list where they're going to be really hard to find. So I've created a spreadsheet for you that is a way of organizing your prompts. You can find a link to it right here. This can be particularly valuable if you're creating a library of prompts for your team. You can share it with all the members of your team with read only permissions so that no one can edit them and mess them up and ensure that all new prompt ideas are fed through one person for quality control and testing before they're then added to this list. Let's have a look. On this sheet, you'll find all the prompts in the course. You'll probably want to bookmark it. As you can see, each listing has a title. You'll probably want to make it descriptive rather than creative. It's got a description so people can see exactly what the prompt does. It's got the chatbot that you will use. Now, I use ChatGPT for most prompts, but I use Bing if I need to connect to the web for live data. Then in the green column, you've got the prompt itself. The next column contains the elements that you need to change in the prompt. These are the variables that we spoke about in a previous lesson. And finally, we've got the person who wrote it. Now, this is important if you've got multiple people contributing from your team. To find a prompt, just use Ctrl or command F as a search box. It will highlight any cell containing your term, making it easier to track down exactly what you're looking for. To use any prompt, double-click on the green cell with the prompt in it, select all of it, copy it, and paste it into your chatbot. Then add the necessary information and boom, you've got your response. If you've got lots of prompts for lots of different purposes, you may want to divide them up into different sheets, which you can do at the bottom here. You could have a sheet for research, another for writing, another for SEO, and another for delicious gluten-free vegan pizza recipes, that's probably empty. In the next lessons, I'm going to share some actual prompts with you. So stick around.