Custom AI processing prompts
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Curtis Hibbs
Right now there are two built-in AI processing prompts: concise summaries and detailed summaries. We should be able to create additional, custom prompts that are clickable like the built-in ones.
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Sankari Nair
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Ability to set custom prompt for Summaries or action that needs to be taken on the content ingested.
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Utkarsh Deep
Sankari Nair
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It would be great if we could add a prompt system that would allow for more tailored note taking. For example, to write out “implications for the lawyer” for each material
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Marek Ballaun
Sankari Nair
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Customized template for chat + system prompt
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Ssu-Yuan Lin
- System prompt setting for all chat.
- Customized template like concise summary and detailed summary to have a costumized button to have response.
These two features should be easy to add into current version, and greatly improve the user experience to collect and organize the notes.
Appreciate the work you guys are doing, exactly what I need!
Sankari Nair
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Being able to change the summary with a prompt
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Bruno Henriques
In the summary tab, it was very useful to say how we wanted the summary, shorter, longer, just explaining some topics...
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AI Actions - Custom Prompts
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Abd Sab
Make the app more customizable, so we can define our own prompts for question generation and summarization etc.
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schroell
Actually, I wanted to exactly request the same feature. Luckily, I have searched for what is already available. I would really want to have the ability to create my own personal catalog of prompt templates that I regularly use, and in the chat window, I can use some shortcut like a backslash ""/ and just type the title of any predefined prompt that I have created and execute it with just a couple of keystrokes. For example, I tend to use this small prompt in the chat window for a newly created card "What are the 10 key elements of information that I should take away from this discussion" Now, if I store it as "key-information", my expectation would be to be able to type in the chat window "/key-information" And while typing the /k I get already a list of titles of prompt macros and I just can select one via the arrow keys and just push Enter to execute it. That would be much more helpful than always copy-pasting these prompts from earlier notebooks or cards where I have used the prompt already. Luckily, those prompts are stored together with the chat result if I have added them to the notebook, which is a major benefit compared to NotebookLM of Google where the prompt that you use to generate an output is lost.
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Token Eater
Yes!!! I realise that by caching requests using summaries or detail is saving token etc, but I really have some working specifics. I’ve been tailoring it for recall
Primary Goal:
Summarize the provided content in a well-structured Markdown format. The summary should be clear, concise, and easy to read, while capturing the essential information.
General Formatting & Processing Rules:
1. Headers: Use appropriate H1 to H4 headers to structure the document logically.
2. Automatic Corrections:
• Fix obvious spelling and grammatical errors automatically.
• Ensure all sentences begin with a capital letter.
• Insert definite articles (like "the" or "a") where they are clearly missing.
3. Content Flow:
• Ensure a logical flow of information.
• Ignore irrelevant sections like social media plugs, disclaimers, or conversational intros/outros that do not contribute to the main topic.
• Preserve any timestamps from the original text for reference.
4. Markdown Links: When referencing external resources like articles or videos, format them as proper Markdown links where the title or a descriptive phrase is the clickable text.
• Example: Title: Topic
5. Quotes: For direct quotes in the summary body or the final "QUOTES" section, use standard double quotation marks (e.g., "This is a quote.").
Special Formatting: Admonition Boxes
When relevant, expand on the context by inserting information into collapsible admonition boxes.
• Rule: Use the HTML <details open> and <summary> tags. The title inside the <summary> tag must be bold.
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Token Eater
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* Spacing: Crucially, ensure there is one blank line both before the opening <details> tag and after the closing </details> tag. There should also be a blank line after the <summary> tag for the content to render correctly.
Here is an example of a complete "Check" box:
<details open>
<summary><strong>Check</strong></summary>
This is where the key insight or useful information goes.
</details>
Use the following admonition types based on the content:
* Check: For key insights or useful information.
* Important: For critical points or must-remember details.
* Fail: For warnings, dangers, or failures.
* Note: For notable quotes or poetic/philosophical reflections.
* Question: For thought-provoking or discussion-worthy questions related to the topic.
* Example: For extended exploration, implications, or deeper, more philosophical ideas.
Final Output Structure:
At the end of the summary, create the following four sections using bullet points:
* IDEAS: 1-10 distilled key insights. Each insight must include a clickable timestamp, like HH:MM:SS, referencing its origin in the source.
* QUOTES: 1-10 impactful direct quotes. Each quote must be followed by its clickable timestamp, like HH:MM:SS.
* TIPS: 1-10 practical and actionable takeaways. Each tip must be linked to its source with a clickable timestamp, like HH:MM:SS.
* REFERENCES: A list of relevant books, tools, projects, or inspirations mentioned.
(Optional) Transcript-Specific Processing Rules:
If the input content is a raw video transcript (e.g., SBV, SRT, VTT), first convert it into the standard format: HH:MM:SS Transcript line text. Then, apply all the formatting rules above.
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Phil Kalogeras
Yes please. There are often nuance and egpdge cases that summarisation does not capture. Being able to add supplementary instructions or have custom prompts would be useful.
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Joe Chen
Definitely need this. Without custom prompts, the recall app may output weird summary occasionally. For example, if I don't specify language used for summary, most of the time, Recall will use Korean to summarize even through the page is in traditional Chinese. However, if I specify output language to Chinese, it will give me simplified Chinese which doesn't fit my need. Moreover, I may like to specify the summary structure. So, custom prompt is a MUST to have option in my opinion.
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Curtis Hibbs
I just created a feature request that is very similar for "custom prompts" that are clickable. You might want to go find that and upvote it. Actually, these two requests should be merged.
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