You don't need a hundred research prompts. You need five you trust and actually reuse.
Reuse the recipe
Write down what you never want as explicitly as what you do. The exclusions often do more work than the instructions.
- Keep one ask per prompt — chaining beats cramming
- Lower the reading level, then check what broke
- Name the audience and the single goal before you generate
Generate options, not answers
Write down what you never want as explicitly as what you do. The exclusions often do more work than the instructions.
- Name the audience and the single goal before you generate
- Have the model flag what it could not cover
- Compare two outputs instead of trusting one
Treat the first output as a draft, not a verdict. The prompt does the typing; you keep the judgment about what ships.