OpenAI Commands Mini Course – Starter Workflows
Lesson 4: Your Starter Command Toolkit
Lesson Objectives
By the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
- Choose five everyday tasks that benefit from command-style prompts.
- Write and test one short command prompt for each.
- Keep the toolkit somewhere easy to use.
Lesson Content
A starter toolkit is five short prompts you can use every week. Each one follows the pattern job + input + format + limit:
- Summarize: "Summarize this in five bullets with any dates and decisions."
- Reply: "Write a friendly reply to this message, under 80 words, confirming [detail]."
- Plan: "Turn this to-do list into a plan for today with times, respecting [fixed commitments]."
- Explain: "Explain this in plain words for a beginner, with one example."
- Check: "List any facts, dates, or numbers in this text that I should double-check."
Keep the toolkit in a notes app or a pinned document. Change only the details in brackets each time.
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