Summarization & Transformation
Best for:
Meeting notesExecutive summariesTone rewritesFormat conversionRepurposing content
Summaries, rewrites, tone shifts, and format conversions — the workhorse tasks. The key controls: who the summary is for, what they’ll do with it, and a hard length budget.
Prompt Variations
Section titled “Prompt Variations”Summarize the document below for [READER — e.g., a CFO deciding whether to attend the full briefing].
They will use this summary to [PURPOSE — e.g., decide go/no-go in under a minute].
Format:
- One-sentence bottom line first
- 3-5 bullets, each under 20 words, ordered by importance to this reader
- One "watch out" line if the document contains any risk, caveat, or deadline
Hard limit: [LENGTH — e.g., 120 words]. Preserve exact numbers, dates, and names — never round or approximate them.
[PASTE DOCUMENT]
Tips & Best Practices
Section titled “Tips & Best Practices”- Reader + purpose beats length alone: “for a CFO deciding go/no-go” produces a different (better) summary than “summarize in 100 words”.
- Protect the numbers: explicitly instruct exact preservation of figures, dates, and names — summarizers love to round and drop them.
- Don’t let it invent decisions: for meeting notes, the “if it wasn’t decided, it’s an open question” rule prevents phantom commitments.
- Zoom levels reveal drift: the three-level pattern exposes when a punchy one-liner misrepresents the full document.