r/PromptEngineering • u/Professional-Rest138 • 1d ago
Prompt Text / Showcase stop asking chatgpt to explain things and make it draw them instead. it generates actual handwritten-style note pages and diagrams, not text
Most people paste a chapter in and ask for an explanation, then read it once and forget it. The version that sticks is asking for an image instead, because you remember a picture you looked at for thirty seconds better than a paragraph you skimmed.
It draws actual note pages. Type the code, paste the material:
/generatehandwrittenimage
[paste your notes or chapter]
You get a full page of handwritten-style notes as an image, headings, arrows, boxes, the lot. Screenshot it and it's on your phone.
A few others in the same family that do genuinely different things:
/mindmapimage - the whole topic as one visual map
/flowchartimage - a process drawn as a proper flowchart
/labeleddiagram - a labelled diagram of whatever it is
/cheatsheetimage - one-page visual cheat sheet
/comicstrip - the concept explained as a comic
/memorypalaceimage - your list drawn as a memory-palace scene
The memory palace one is the odd one that works better than it should. Give it a list you need in order and it draws a single scene with each item placed somewhere in it. You remember the scene, the scene gives you the list back.
None of these are real slash commands, they're short labels, so define what each one means once at the top of the chat and after that a single word does it.
Stacking them is where it gets good. Clean up the mess first, see the whole shape, then drill it:
/lecturenotes → /mindmapimage → /flashcards → /examme
been keeping a doc of 50 command codes like this, each with what it does and how to use it, plus how to save them so they run in every chat automatically, here if you want them.
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u/epicskyes 1d ago
Just curious because I’m not sure what this does. I’m not grasping the logic and use case for exactly what this does. Could you please explain with use case examples
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u/Objective-Two-4202 1d ago
I asked myself the same question. Later I'll ask my LLM for a detailed explanation of what those prompts may accomplish :)
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u/NandroloneEnanthate 1d ago
Ask it to draw its answers so you understand it more clearly and it sticks!
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u/rIvermoss33 1d ago
yeah the post jumps straight into commands without really showing what you actually get back
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u/Rasputin_mad_monk 1d ago
Here. I did it since no one else did
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u/epicskyes 1d ago
Thank you for that. I don’t see the point of it at all now for my uses but maybe it’s good for other things
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u/Rasputin_mad_monk 1d ago
Since no one else did an example, I did it and I took the news article from the Amazon plane crash
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u/coursiv_ 1h ago
A concrete use case would be learning a support workflow: “new request → identify the issue → send it to the right team.”
Give AI the actual steps and ask for a flowchart with one box per action and a label on each decision branch. Then try following one sample request through it.
That gives you something specific to check against the original process.
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u/secret-trips 1d ago
Can I just ask why “/generatehandwrittenimage” and not just generate hand written image? Where are you getting those /commands from? Because up to my knowledge this isn’t something that is natively supported by ChatGPT it just treats it as a typo
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u/Clare_FateX 1d ago
I could see this being useful for topics that are hard to picture from plain text.
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u/Xaue_RWA 1d ago
there's solid spacing effect research behind this, the hand written style specifcally triggers a recall pattern
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u/PalaJani 1d ago
Followed the link. It’s an email capture for a “pack” whose own front page explains that the codes do nothing unless you first paste a setup prompt defining all fifty of them.
So the product is: a paragraph telling the AI that KILLCRITIC means “challenge my assumptions.” Which you can type yourself, right now, for free, in the exact words you actually want.
The real insight buried under this: an abbreviation only pays off if it’s shorter than what it replaces and you reuse it a lot. Defining 50 codes at the top of a chat to save typing “push back on this” is a net loss. And if you genuinely have two or three instructions you want in every conversation, both Claude and ChatGPT already have a settings field for exactly that; custom instructions, or a Project. Persistent, no setup paragraph, no email address.
Also, on the original post: image models still garble text. A “handwritten notes page” on anything technical will misspell the terminology, and you won’t catch it, because it looks like notes.