"Give me a table with columns X, Y, Z" beats "tell me about this" every time. Asking for the exact structure — a table, a numbered list, a specific format — is how the pros get output they can use immediately instead of editing.
An answer shaped exactly like the thing you actually needed, ready to paste in — not a paragraph you have to reformat yourself.
Structured requests are a documented best practice straight from the model-makers' own prompting guides — specifying the output shape removes almost all the cleanup work.
Open the AI you use (in any chat). This works in all the popular ones.
Copy the prompt below, paste it in, and replace anything in [brackets] with your details.
Read what comes back and ask it to adjust — shorter, warmer, more detail. Two tweaks and it’s perfect.
This is a one-off you can run in any chat. The real magic is making it repeat — ask AI to do it every week, keep it as a living system, or have it build you a tool that does it for you. That jump from "neat trick" to "runs my work" is exactly what the ∞ apps are for.
Read the full story → 5 prompting habits straight from AI's own makers (not internet folklore)
Plus the printable AI Moves Starter Pack (PDF). No spam, just things that make you go "I had no idea."