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Prompts with Blanks

A blank is a gap in a saved prompt that you fill in each time you use it. Write the blank once, and Kortex opens a small form when you insert the prompt. It is like a form letter with spaces for the name and the date.

A small form above the chat box asks for each blank, with the usual answers already filled in

Why use blanks?​

Many prompts stay the same except for one or two words. A blank lets you save the part that stays and change the rest in seconds.

How to write a blank​

Put the name of the blank between double curly brackets in your prompt.

  • {{audience}} is a blank you fill in each time.
  • {{audience=my team}} is a blank with its usual answer already in it.
  • {{tone:formal|friendly}} is a choice. The first one, formal, is picked for you.

Kortex can also fill some blanks for you: {{selection}}, {{clipboard}}, {{date}}, {{time}}, {{page}} and {{url}}. They are the text you selected, what you copied, today's date, the time, the page's title and its address. Write {{>sum}} to bring in another saved prompt by its shortcut.

You do not have to remember this. In the Library's prompt editor, the Add a blank menu inserts any of them for you.

The blank menu in the prompt editor adds a blank, a choice, the selection, the clipboard and more

How to use a prompt with blanks​

  1. Type ; and the prompt's shortcut in a chat box, then press Enter.
  2. A small form opens above the chat box. It shows your last answers.
  3. Fill in each field. Press Tab to move to the next one. Choices show as a list.
  4. Press Enter, or click Insert. The finished prompt goes in the chat box. Shift+Enter adds a new line inside a field.

How do I chain prompts, one step after another?​

Some jobs take two or three messages in a row. Write them in one prompt and put a line with only >>> between the steps.

  1. Use the prompt as usual. The first step goes in the chat box.
  2. Send it, and wait for the answer.
  3. A box appears above the chat box. Click Insert next step.
  4. Click Stop if you do not want the rest.
After you send the first step, a box offers Insert next step
Good to know
  • The editor warns you about likely mistakes, such as a blank spelled two ways. It never stops you from saving.
  • In the Library's Prompts view, the ⋯ menu has Starter ideas: ready-made prompts with blanks you can copy.

Next: Prompt shortcuts, Prompt suggestions.