Building a ChatGPT Playbook

A "Power User" is consistent. You shouldn't have to "rediscover" how to prompt for a task you've done before. You need a Personal AI Playbook.

1. What's in a Playbook?

A Playbook is a document (Notion, Google Doc, or Obsidian) that contains:

• Winning Prompts: The exact text of prompts that give you 10/10 results.
• Personas: The "System Prompts" for your most-used roles (e.g., The Ruthless Editor).
• Workflows: Step-by-step instructions for complex tasks.
• Formatting Rules: Your preferred output styles.

2. Categorizing Your Assets

• Category A: Professional (Email drafting, meeting summaries).
• Category B: Technical (SQL generation, Python debugging).
• Category C: Creative (Brainstorming, Midjourney expansion).

graph TD
    Win[Success Prompt] --> Save[Save to Playbook]
    Save --> Cat[Categorize]
    Cat --> Reuse[Instant Reuse/Scale]

3. Version Control for Prompts

Just like code, prompts can be improved.

• "V1: Summmarize this. (Bad)"
• "V2: Summarize this in 3 bullets. (Better)"
• "V3: Summarize this in 3 bullets, focusing on the financial impact, under 100 words. (Playbook Ready)"

4. Sharing Your Playbook

If you lead a team, sharing your Prompt Playbook is the fastest way to increase the whole group's productivity.

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Hands-on: Save Your First Entry

1. Look back through your chats from this course.
2. Find the ONE prompt that gave you a result that surprised you.
3. Task: Copy it into a separate doc and list: The Role, The Instruction, and The Result.

Key Takeaways

• Documentation = Scaling.
• Treat prompts as Intellectual Property.
• A playbook turns a "chat" into a System.