Tired of typing the same prompts into ChatGPT?

Why not create a prompt menu that pops up when you need it—for free.

Here’s how:👇
2/ Espanso is a free and open source tool.

Let's thank @terzi_federico for sharing it with the world.

It runs on Mac, Windows, Linux.
3/ You set up shortcuts, like typing:

;copy

and Espanso replaces it with whatever you want

eg, “You are an expert copywriter…”
4/ But the really cool part is being able to trigger menus.

Espanso calls these “Choice Extensions”

Type a shortcut, and a menu pops up, with whatever prompts you've saved. Image
5/ In this example, when I type `;ci` (CI for Code Interpreter):

I get a menu of prompts I've saved for Code Interpreter.
6/ To set it up, just install from the website.

The next bit is a tiny bit more complicated.

But don’t worry. Find a file called `base.yml`. Open it in a text editor like Notepad or TextEdit.

You can find the path for base.yml in the documentation: Image
7/ Then copy the menu code (Choice Extension) into the `base.yml` text file. Image
8/ Change “trigger” to be whatever you want to type to make the menu pop-up.

You can have as many different menus as you want, eg:

- ;ci for Code Interpreter
- ;gp for ChatGPT
- ;fo for Format of Output

You really can go wild. Image
9/ If you have any problems:

- Let me know. I'll try to help.
- Or: upload your yml file to Code Interpreter, with some of the Espanso documentation. Ask Code Interpreter to modify your yml file.

There you have it! You've got a prompt library that pops up when you need it. Image
Hope you found this helpful. What have you been using to save your prompts?

If you'd like more of the learnings I'm sharing on AI and writing:

1. Follow me @JeremyNguyenPhD
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“Are there AI apps that turn drawings into animations?”

@JoshuaLisec asked about turning his boy’s drawings into animation. It’s easy to take a kid's drawing and get an animation in under ten minutes. Even if you've never used Midjourney.

Here’s how 👇
@JoshuaLisec 2/ The tool stack is simple:

- Midjourney for the still image
- Runway Gen 2 to animate

Neither are free.

- I used the free trial of Runway.
- There are free alternatives to Midjourney.

BTW, after you make some animations, share them with Joshua's boy in the thread below.
3/ First upload the image to Midjourney.

Then find the image in the feed.

Expand and copy the image address.

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Aug 11
ChatGPT doesn’t let you enter more than ~6,827 words (8,192 tokens).

But you can automatically cut your text into chunks GPT can handle.

Here’s one way:
2/ Okay, I know what you’re thinking:

- Just use Claude’s 100k!

I love Claude for writing—but for some tasks, you can’t beat GPT.

- Omg, haven’t you heard of the API?

Have, lah. @ehalm_'s InfiniteGPT is pretty cool. But some of the people I help just want to use ChatGPT.
3/ Here’s a site called ChatGPT Splitter.

I like how the name tells you what it does.

—feels like that's a lost art, nowadays.
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Aug 4
You could be a writer who brags about how AI sucks at writing.

Or you could be like Lupe Fiasco. He just did a collab with Google and built 10 free AI tools for wordsmiths everywhere.

Let’s see what he made for us 👇
2/ MIT Visiting Professor.

Grammy-winning rapper.

Lupe Fiasco is a titan of lyricism and writing. Image
3/ Let’s get one thing out of the way:

Lupe’s tools do not “do the writing for you”. If you want that, you’ll be disappointed.

But if your writing has ever had you Googling details like what 70s kids ate for after-school snacks…

You might love this. Image
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Aug 1
July was a whirlwind—so much happened in AI!

Lets break down the great new releases from OpenAI, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic—

—and what you can do with them. 👇
2/ The big one:

Code Interpreter for ChatGPT finally dropped.

It's tough to convey how powerful it is without me sounding like an "AI threadboi".

Don't let the name put you off:

"It is less a tool for coders and more a coder who works for you."
3/ With Code Interpreter @icreatelife made this game in just 5 mins.

Imagine you had someone who could code for you and all you have to do is tell them what you want in plain english.
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With the new Custom Instructions: this works in ChatGPT.

(Results in the comments). Image
2/ Before: Image
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Jul 19
Has ChatGPT “gotten dumber”?

New study released today finds a 97.5% drop in a math skill.

Could "prompt drift" ruin your work? What’s the solution?

Here's what we know so far: 👇 Image
2/ You probably heard the murmurs earlier this year.

Rachel Woods asked out loud, 2 months ago.

She calls it “prompt drift”.
3/ Here's the study released today, from researchers at Stanford and UC Berkeley:
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