AI is fast changing how many of us work. Most of us are learning how to use AI prompts to quickly generate ideas and complete our work faster. In this video, I will show you my technique for creating your own AI prompt template library so you can easily save your best AI prompts and call up any AI prompt in seconds, saving you hours every week.
Why an AI Prompt Template Library?
While AI is saving me loads of time each week, I find I am writing a LOT of AI prompts! I soon noticed that my results were better when I wrote a better prompt, so it became important to save my best prompts as AI prompt templates instead of wasting time rewriting the same prompts over and over. Here are the benefits I have found by building my own AI prompt template library.
- Saving a LOT of prompt writing time
- Better AI output because I am using a proven template I have tested over time, rather than coming up with a slightly different prompt each time
- The ability to add variables such as topic, type, purpose, etc.
- The ability to share my best prompts with my team
Use Cases
Here are some of the prompt templates I have created:
- Headline Creator: an AI prompt to generate headline ideas for my blog articles and YouTube videos.
- Social Media Post Creator: This prompt quickly creates a social media post in my voice, and I just provide variables such as the topic and where I want the post to link to.
- Article Outline Creator: Creates an outline on a topic I have chosen for my Time Tips blog.
- Book Summary: This prompt summarizes any business book and provides an easy-to-understand summary and action checklist I can use to implement the book’s principles.
- Daily News Digest: This creates an AI summary of daily local and International news in my preferred categories, along with some fun ideas like image of the day, today’s fact, word of the day, day in history, and a new AI prompt idea.
- Email Marketing Series: This prompt creates a series of marketing emails on a new product or service I am launching.
- Image Prompt: This creates AI images for my YouTube videos, website, product, and social media posts in the steampunk theme I use as part of my branding.
- Business Networking Introductions: I use this AI prompt for creating new, fresh, and interesting ways to introduce myself at business networking meetings.
- Online Course Lessons: This prompt grabs my videos and creates a description of each lesson for my online courses and masterclasses.
- Presentation Creation: This AI prompt creates entire presentations in just minutes using the Gamma app.
- Workshop Topic Generator: Generates workshop topic ideas for my future workshops and webinars.
In each case, I write the prompt once and immediately save it to my library. I then use the prompt regularly and keep tweaking it until I am happy with the results. My prompts are living documents that get better over time.
Tools Needed
Here are the tools needed to create your own AI prompt template library.
- Any AI agent
- Text Expander: I use TextBlaze for this.
How I use TextBlaze for my AI Prompt Template Library
Instead of saving my prompts in a document and having to look up the document and then copying and pasting, I use TextBlaze. TextBlaze is a tool that runs in the background on my computer and lets me call up any prompt (or any other document, URL, etc.) lightning-fast using just a few keystrokes.
I put /p in front of the prompt as my structure. So a prompt will look like /p[prompt name]. For example, I can call up my Book Summary prompt by typing /pbook, and this prompt will show up:
Please analyze the book, book title by author and provide the following:
1. A concise summary of the book in 3-5 paragraphs, covering:
– The main theme or central idea
– Key arguments or concepts presented
– Notable examples or case studies used
– The author’s conclusions or recommendations
2. A list of the 5-7 most important principles or lessons from the book
3. For each principle, create a practical, actionable checklist of 3-5 items that a reader could use to apply this principle in their life or work. Each checklist item should be clear, specific, and achievable.
4. Conclude with a brief statement (2-3 sentences) on the book’s potential impact or relevance for readers.
Please ensure the summary and checklists are clear, concise, and directly applicable to real-life situations. Use bullet points or numbered lists for clarity where appropriate.
The two variables (book title) and (author), I fill in when the Text Blaze window comes up when I type /pbook, and then, when I click on the [Insert] command, the prompt with the book title and author will drop into whichever AI tool I prefer.
Pro tip: You can also add [ENTER] onto the end of your prompt in TextBlaze, and the prompt will run in your AI chat automatically after the insert.
I currently have over 25 AI prompt templates in my library with more being added on a weekly basis. I also use an AI Swipe technique (based on the old copy swipe file idea) where I keep watch out for useful AI prompts shared by others, and replicate them in my own library.
The Result
Blazing fast call-ups of proven AI prompt templates in seconds. My library saves me hours every week of trying to write the perfect prompts. I make it a policy to never write the same text twice, so I always save my best sales letters, introductions, support replies, etc. in Text Blaze. Expanding this to AI prompts saves me even more time as I use AI on almost every task I work on.
Please hit the “Like” and “Subscribe” buttons on the YouTube video above to help others find this content.
Want to learn how to use AI for productivity for your teams? Book a free discovery call here and reclaim 5-10 hours per team member every week.