16-2 Recipes by Scenario 🍳

"When this happens, try asking it like this" — a collection of ready-to-follow recipes for different situations.

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✍️ Writing

• "Write a blog draft on this topic: ____"
• "Combine these notes into one organized piece" (attach the related notes as references)
• "Make this piece more concise / change the tone to be like ____"
• Dedicated commands: /worldbuild /craft /draft /compose /edit /revise → for a deeper, step-by-step approach, see 16-3 Writing & Composition

📚 Studying

• "Turn this PDF's key points into study notes" (attach the PDF)
• "Make 5 questions from this content — keep the answers separate"
• "Transcribe yesterday's lecture recording and summarize it" (attach the audio file — no whisper needed if you have an OpenAI/Gemini API key; it transcribes via the cloud)
• "Organize this chapter in the order concept → example → common confusions"
• Dedicated commands: /studynote /summarize /quiz /errorlog /lecturenote /studyplan

🔎 Research & information gathering

• "Search for the latest trends on ____ and organize them — be sure to cite sources!"
• "Pull the captions from this YouTube video and summarize the key points" (video URL)
• "Make a digest of today's new posts from this RSS feed" (feed URL)
• "Organize the arguments for and against this topic into a table, with sources"
• Dedicated commands: /gather /litreview /factcheck /paper (these helpers never assert claims without a source)

💡 Web content is written based on search results (titles, summaries, dates) — it doesn't open and read each page individually. So asking it to "cite sources" makes the result more trustworthy, and it's worth double-checking anything important.

🧠 Structuring knowledge

• "Draw the relationships between the notes in this folder as a mind map" → into a .canvas! → 11 Mind Map
• "Group these scattered memos by similar topic / suggest wiki links between these notes"
• "Find notes related to this topic and map out the surrounding structure too" (semantic search + graph)
• For a more systematic approach (Zettelkasten, ontology) → 16-5 Zettelkasten & Ontology · 17 Structuring Knowledge

🔄 Conversion & data

• "Convert this docx/pptx/epub to Markdown" (requires pandoc)
• "Turn this CSV/JSON into a clean table"
• "Read the text in this scanned PDF and transcribe it" (requires Claude + poppler)
• "Make a data table (.base) from these notes" · "as a kanban board by status" · "add a monthly-count chart view" · "set it up as a project view" — the agent creates or edits .base files (and seeds matching notes when needed). → Bases (Data Tables) · Project View
• See which formats it can read → readable file formats

🧜‍♀️ Asking it to draw a mind map or diagram

Ask things like "draw a mind map," "diagram the structure of ○○," or "make a chart," and the agent creates a .canvas file that ObsiKO opens as an interactive mind map. Once it's made, feel free to edit it yourself too — move cards, change colors, and more! → 11 Mind Map

• Diagram just about anything: topic maps (center → branches), sequences/processes/timelines, cause-and-effect, comparisons/classifications, tournament brackets, and more.
• Arrow direction follows the content's flow automatically (cause → effect, qualifiers → finals). Feel free to be specific if you want — "from qualifiers to the finals," "bottom to top."
• A map linking existing notes: "make a map connecting these notes as cards" from this folder → your actual notes go in as file cards that open when clicked (similar to an automatic mind map, but AI also interprets the relationships!).
• You can request the shape too: "different colors for each category," "5 branches," "spreading left and right from the center."
• Smarter diagrams now: the agent picks card shapes like decision diamonds and start/end ovals, wraps related branches into groups, and draws relationships that have no direction as lines without arrowheads. Try asking for "as a flowchart," "grouped by category," or "make these two a two-way relationship."
• If you'd rather have it inside the document: "forget the mind map, put it in this note as a Mermaid diagram" → embeds a diagram in the body. → 04 Advanced Markdown

Recommended prompt: "Draw the key concepts and relationships from the attached notes as a mind map (.canvas). Branch out from the central topic, and use arrow direction to express cause-and-effect or sequence where it exists. Use different colors per category!"

More copy-and-paste prompts → 16-6 Recommended Prompts

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