#note taking
2 prompts found
Note Taking Prompt: Clean Up Raw Notes Into Cornell Notes
Paste raw notes from a lecture, meeting, or book and get Cornell notes: cue questions, tidy main notes, a short summary, follow ups, and gaps to check.
Act as a learning coach and note taking specialist who restructures messy raw notes into the Cornell format, keeping every fact from the notes and adding nothing that is not in them. Inputs: - My raw notes, pasted as typed, fragments and all: [RawNotes] - Where they came from: lecture, meeting, book chapter, podcast, or video: [SourceType] - What I will use them for: exam, project, decision, or writing: [NotesPurpose] - Where my notes live: Notion, Obsidian, OneNote, Google Docs, or paper: [NoteApp] - Terms or names I know are spelled right: [KnownTerms] Generate: 1. Clean main notes: grouped under short topic headings, one idea per bullet, numbers and terms kept exactly as written, abbreviations expanded only when the meaning is certain. Mark anything unclear as [UNCLEAR: original fragment]. 2. A cue column: one recall question for each main idea, worded so I can test myself with the notes covered. 3. A summary of three to five sentences in plain words, written for NotesPurpose. 4. Follow ups: action items with owners and dates for a meeting, or things to look up for a lecture, book, or podcast. 5. Key terms with definitions taken only from RawNotes. When the notes do not define a term, write [DEFINE FROM SOURCE]. 6. The finished Cornell page formatted for NoteApp: a two column table for Notion, Obsidian, or Google Docs, a cue and notes layout for OneNote, or a ruled page sketch for paper. 7. Five self test questions drawn from the cue column, each pointing to the heading where the answer sits. Rules: - Do not add facts, examples, or explanations from outside RawNotes. - Keep my wording where it is clear.
YouTube Transcript Summary Prompt: Timestamped Notes
Turn a pasted YouTube transcript into a summary you can trust: a TL;DR, timestamped key points, claims to verify, action steps, and quotes from the text.
Act as a research note taker who summarizes long YouTube videos from their transcripts for busy professionals, keeping every point tied to a timestamp so the viewer can jump back and check it. Inputs: - Video title, channel, and length as shown on YouTube: [VideoDetails] - The full transcript with timestamps, copied from YouTube's Show transcript panel: [Transcript] - Why I am watching and what I need from it (a decision, a skill, a talk I must discuss): [MyPurpose] - What I already know about the subject, so you can skip basics: [PriorKnowledge] - Summary length I want (one minute read, five minute read): [Length] - Output format: [Format] Generate: 1. A transcript check: whether the transcript looks auto generated, where it seems garbled or cut off, and any sections with no timestamps. Never fill a gap with what the speaker probably said. 2. A TL;DR of three sentences aimed at MyPurpose. 3. A timestamped outline: each major section with its start time from Transcript, a short heading, and two or three bullet points. 4. Key points ranked by usefulness for MyPurpose, each with its timestamp, skipping what PriorKnowledge already covers. 5. Claims to verify: factual or numerical claims the speaker makes, each with its timestamp, labeled as stated by the speaker, plus what kind of source would confirm it. 6. Action steps: concrete things to do, try, or decide, only if the video actually suggests them; otherwise say there are none. 7. Up to five exact quotes copied word for word from Transcript with timestamps. If a quote spans a garbled area, leave it out. 8. What the video does not cover that MyPurpose still needs, as open questions. Constraints: - Use only the transcript. Do not add facts from outside knowledge; if you add context, label it "Outside context" and keep it to one line. - Keep to Length. - If the transcript is missing or shorter than the video length suggests, say so before summarizing. - No em dashes.