Thinking level
Instant is for quick questions. For planning, pricing math or comparing options, turn up the Thinking slider (paid plans) or pick Think (Free and Go). On Plus and Pro it won’t step up by itself, even if you type “think harder.”
A cheat sheet made for Molly
Use this every day
Ask me up to three questions about anything important I haven’t told you, one at a time. Then turn everything I’ve said into a clear prompt I can paste into a new chat. Include the goal, the context it needs, and what a good answer looks like.
The rest of the page covers building on your plan, setup, prompt moves, the right tool, and catching it making things up.
RefresherOne topic per chat, give it context, and start a new chat when it drifts.
Your plan can keep growing. Bring it into ChatGPT, shape it together, and ask for the features you want.
Make a project called “My plan”, start a chat in it, and paste the whole plan in.
Go through my plan with me one step at a time. For each step, ask whether it still fits, and change it with me before we move on.
Using this plan as the first stage, help me build a longer-term plan. Ask me where I want to be in a year before you write it.
A page you can click and tick is a ChatGPT Site. Ask for it in Work (Plus or higher), check the preview, ask for changes, then use Share and Publish to get a link.
Build my plan as a website I can use, with a check box beside each step in my short-term plan so I can tick them off.
Break it out into another page: a day-to-day plan based on the one I like, and make it an interactive to-do list.
ChatGPT keeps things in three places. Put each thing where it belongs and every chat starts smarter.
Small changes to how you ask, big changes to what you get back.
It asks for what it needs instead of guessing. The hand-off prompt at the top starts the same way.
Before you write anything, ask me the questions you need to write a strong About page for my online shop. Ask them one at a time, then write it.
An example beats a description of what you want. Fill in the brackets first.
Here’s a product description I like from another shop: [paste it]. Write one for my [product] in the same style and length.
Picking between options is easier than judging one.
Write three different subject lines for an email announcing a new product. Then critique each one and tell me which you’d send and why.
Keep what works and fix the rest.
Keep everything else exactly the same. Rewrite only the second paragraph so it’s shorter and warmer.
Most of what ChatGPT can do sits in the + menu and the model menu.
Instant is for quick questions. For planning, pricing math or comparing options, turn up the Thinking slider (paid plans) or pick Think (Free and Go). On Plus and Pro it won’t step up by itself, even if you type “think harder.”
Search is for quick facts with links. Deep research writes a cited report from many sources, like how similar shops price shipping, and shows you its plan first. Start it from +
Upload a spreadsheet, like a month of sales, and ask for totals, trends or a chart. It runs the numbers instead of estimating them.
Tap the Voice icon in the message bar to talk it through, like rehearsing a pitch. It stays in the chat, so you can read it back.
For finished work, like a spreadsheet comparing suppliers, switch from Chat to Work at the top of the screen. It plans, does the steps, asks before important actions, and can repeat a task on a schedule. Any plan in the desktop app; Plus or higher on web and phone.
It sounds just as sure when it’s wrong, so check anything you’ll act on.
For prices, fees or rules. Then open the links and check they say what it claims.
Search the web and check what you just told me. Link a source for each fact, and tell me anything you couldn’t confirm.
Which parts of this are you least sure of, and why?
Upload the spreadsheet first, so it works from real numbers.
Check this against the spreadsheet I uploaded. List anything that doesn’t match, and show me where in the spreadsheet it comes from.
New idea? Copy the hand-off prompt.