Are you saving AI Prompts inside TextExpander?

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I’ve started using TextExpander to collect and quickly reuse my go-to AI prompts. It’s been a handy way to stay consistent and save time. I’m curious: are any of you doing something similar?

If so, you might be a great fit to test some of the new AI capabilities we’ve been building. We’re getting close to putting them into the hands of early adopters, and your feedback would be incredibly valuable.

Also, I’d love to know which models you’re using most often. We’re planning a “bring your own model” approach, so understanding which platforms and tools you’re spending the most time with will help shape what we build next.

J.D.
TextExpander CEO

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Increasingly using AI for my business needs but until recently, did not consider there were “go to” AI prompts. I write each prompt now to meet a specific need. I primarily use ChatGPT subscription model but also occasionally use Claude or Gemini. Would love a forum to share useful prompts for document analysis. I’m a trial lawyer and find AI very useful in analysis of long documents, summarizing pleadings for clients, brain-storming legal issues, and even improving my German with the voice capabilities of AI. I’m intrigued by how TE might incorporate AI.

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I have not saved this one as a Snippet yet, but it’s a potentially life-changing GPT prompt:

Now that you can remember everything I’ve ever typed here, point out my top five blind spots

OpenAI recently upgraded GPT so it remembers all of your previous conversations, so it knows a lot about you if you use it a lot. I’m still chewing on everything it told me.

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Like @GerardGeiger I use AI (ChatGPT and Adobe AI) every day in my law practice. I also haven’t delved too deeply into “prompt engineering.” I can see how TextExpander can be an excellent tool to store prompt templates.

I use ChatGPT to help me create JavaScript snippets in TextExpander. I use the pasteboard object in TextExpander, which ChatGPT often forgets about. Now, that I’m thinking about it, this is something that I can include in my prompt going forward.

@jd-mullin I would love to try the new AI capabilities you have been building when you are ready for testers.

Thanks!

Hani

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Fantastic, we will get you on the alpha/beta wait list and probably reach out for a potential research call as well if you are up for it, Gerard.

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Hi Hani, the cool thing is our solution not only can help you save and re-use prompts, it can write new ones for you as well. It’s pretty cool. We will get you on the alpha/beta wait list and probably reach out for a potential research call as well if you are up for it.

J.D.

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I can’t speak from a legal standpoint, but I have had good results using the “ping pong” prompt. It’s a multi-step process to have AI craft your prompt. I have saved both prompts as snippets in TextExpander. Below is a video that explains it as well as a link to the doc.

https://youtu.be/jXSVQpbWhhM?si=qnRWmNHVO9vzprF5

And the prompts are at: https://profitschool.com/aiguide

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Thank you for sharing the video. I don’t have a problem with prompts when I’m using ChatGPT 4.0 because I’ve taught ChatGPT about me using memories. The memories are always almost full, and I delete old or stale ones when ChatGPT says I’m out of memory.

I’ve struggled with creating custom GPTs because they don’t know about me or my preferences. I think learning how to create better prompts will be useful for these going forward.

Thanks!

Hani

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I’d love to also be on your alpha/beta wait list. I use ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and NotebookLLM almost daily in my work as a writer/marketer and I’ve been wondering how to incorporate TextExpander into my AI work. I’ve been using TextExpander for years. Love it.

Michael

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Awesome, Michael. I’ll have our PM on this (Jason) reach out!

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What an amazing idea.

You don’t know how much this helps.

I literally use Gemini, perplexity, and BING SEQUENTIALLY to create the ultimate template prompt, and then put them back through each other to enhance expand upon, but simplify with analogies.

Then I go back in and do the deep research on at least Gemini and perplexity

Both for creation of prompts as well as as output

Sometimes even use one of the medical models like DOXIMITY/Dougall/and Medscape, which also have their own AI for medical

I have lost so many prompts, even after texting them to myself. Always wasting so much time trying to find.Which one was the best?

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That’s awesome, Thomas. There is a ton of value in saving prompts inside TextExpander. Have you experimented with using fill-ins inside the prompts as well? I’ve found this is another great way to have a base prompt and then customize it using single-line fillins or optional sections.

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Oh my Gosh!

Thank you, thank you thank you again.

I usually pride myself on thinking outside the box.

Creating a fill in so you can then adjust it and immediately update

I have several snippets to update now. They are just simple plain text with no Special fields. Drop downs, feelings, etc.

IThis is going to improve things even further.!

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Another great trick us to use the clipboard fill-in, which lets you copy text from anywhere on the computer, then use it automatically inside your AI prompt.

I use this to feed context into certain Snippets. For example, I have a large prompt that helps me process my notes from all my meetings during the week. I copy those notes to the clipboard, then just expand the prompt inside my LLM, and it automatically has those notes from the clipboard.

J.D.

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It would be nice if the copy to clickboard option had ability to choose when.

For example, there may be sometimes where my situation would be that I need to copy something to the clipboard, but do not want that information to be public or go anywhere other than my own local. It might be credit card information. It might be someone’s name and phone number. It might be a Social Security number.

Also one really big thing if it’s at all possible and I’ve mentioned it before, but I think it would help a lot of people
The first thing is, is there any way to turn off the closing and finishing up a snippet when using single line fill-in if you hit the return you’re done

It would be much better to have to specifically indicate that you’re done rather than automatically under any circumstances, closing only because a return key was hit sometimes by accident

Also, since I type pretty fast, I’m so automatically if it’s a new paragraph I hit return and I’m already halfway into the next paragraph but this really interferes with speed

The next thing that would be good would be after the snippet has been completely filled in, that the information is saved, and the next time you want to open that snippet, it keeps all of the data in the snippet and allows you to change or update any changes of information For example, most patients are on 3 to 4 medications, and at least three of those are usually exactly the same each time

Or a patient may have 5 to 6 medical problems. Those aren’t going away they may improve, but most medical conditions are not cured only surgeons, OB/GYN/pregnancy, and infections are cured.

Guess would reduce having to completely redo all of the different sections. It’s not practical to go back and just copy and paste the previous final output because it needs to be in specific sections of the chart.

If it’s possible to do this, you would also want to be able to label it in such a way that you can find it and there would need to at least be a six or seven digit code

If these two areas were addressed, I might even want to get a part-time gig as a text expander rep going around the doctors offices and explaining to them why they should be using text expander.

We could work out the details on commission later.LOL

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Hi Thomas, when you use the clipboard fill-in in TextExpander, nothing leaves your computer, everything stays local.

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Hi Thomas, in addition to my comment about the clipboard fill-in, I’ve also captured your other two features requests, and love the context around the specific use cases where these features would help. Thank you!

J.D.

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Oh, now it’s on!!!

I DEFINITELY need to learn how to use this feature.

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So if I have an abnormal lab, I should be able to copy rhe lab abd have the context in my note.

What about if there are several labs i want to save but they are on different pages?