Save Time and Sanity by Stashing Your Best Prompts
One of the earliest time-saving features of Type is still one of or most popular: labeling and hanging onto your best AI writing prompts. Crafting a prompt that gets results often takes time to get right. When you do, Type makes it easy to save for reuse: just hit the “+” symbol, and give it a nickname for future recall. This functionality goes beyond simply collecting them, though: it allows you to copy prompts, organize them with custom headings, and access them conveniently from the browser toolbar.
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Of course, doing it this way presupposes your prompt is going to be great before you ever see the results. Some of you may want to wait until after you’ve seen it works well before you go giving it a name and getting attached. In this case, you can always go back and find what you just did in the “Recent” section.
Whether you reuse your prompts right away or test them first, the ability to store and reuse effective prompts is a huge time-saver. Writing a prompt instead of an entire post is already a massive jump in efficiency; saving prompts for future use slashes that time even further.
But prompt recycling isn’t just for generating drafts. We’ve added this function to other areas of Type where it’s just as useful.
Text Transformers: More Than Meets the "I"
Generative AI tends to gravitate towards the mean, which is a nice way of saying it writes bland text that will offend (and please) no one. One of its nasty habits is to spit out bulleted lists of details when what you want is a more narrative description. This is where a user-friendly interface shows its value. Seamlessly interacting with the LLM within the boundaries of the same window where you're writing doesn't sound like as big a deal as it is. But if you've been ALT+TABbing your way around AI text generation, you'll notice the difference.
Back to our bullet points: AI often defaults to these bulleted lists because that’s what Google’s readability guidelines and SEO best practices say. While this approach might work well for technical documentation or quick reference guides, it can seriously detract from the reading experience in contexts where narrative flow is crucial—even a blog post needs to take the time to explain certain things.
To address this common AI writing quirk, Type offers a solution that rescues you from repeatedly typing out the same instructions just to avoid bullet points. Instead, you can create and save custom transformations that automatically convert listed information into flowing, narrative text with just a click.
This flexibility extends far beyond just converting lists to paragraphs. For instance, you might save a prompt that transforms technical jargon into plain English for your customer-facing content, or one that adds more emotional depth to product descriptions. You could even design a transformation that takes your rough meeting notes and turns them into a professional summary.
These saved transformations become particularly powerful when you’re working on recurring content types. If you regularly need to convert data-heavy quarterly reports into engaging executive summaries, or transform customer testimonials into compelling case studies, having these prompts ready to go can give you back hours of repetitive instruction-writing.
Tone of Voice = Tone of Content
Because Jasper is a marketing focused platform, it refers to the different writing style templates you can make as “Brand Voices.” Rytr.me, on the other hand, is a more generalized tool—like Type—and they call this feature Tone of Voice.
Regardless of what it’s called, a writing style needs to be mainted throughout the body of work. Or, if it’s character dialogue, care must be take to make sure they don’t bothjust sound like the author. The tone of voice is your tone of content, and it’s hurt by inconsistency. It’s true of anything you write.
With Type’s Text transformations, you’re free to hang on to any kind of prompts you need, including those that alter just the tone of your content. Whether that’s because you’re a marketing freelancer bouncing between clients, or a novelist whose characters have vastly different speech patterns, a preset can help you use the right tone at the right time. You can also refer to these stored instructions to ensure consistency and efficiency in your writing process.
Master Your Own Voice
Some days are better than others, a truism that applies to writing as much as anything else. For those of you who are at the keyboard everyday, 9-to-5ing your way through blog posts, user guides, marketing assets, and the like, you know there are days where you’re just not feeling it.
Maybe you’ve written about AI writing assistants one too many times that week, or maybe you were up all night with your sick kid—whatever the reasons, there are days where the words you string together just don’t sound great. They don’t sound like…well, you. AI can help with that.
No, it’s not going to replace you, but it can give you a boost when you need it. Here’s how:
- In Type, import (or copy and paste) a document of yours that you feel is one of your better works—one that you’re really proud of.
- In the Type Chat sidebar, ask the AI assistant to analyze the document’s writing style and to describe it back to you.
- If the assessment looks accurate, ask Type to use that description as the basis of a prompt for stylizing text.
- You can export this prompt to a DOCX file and then add it as a style template for generating drafts, or
- You can execute a Custom Edit and store it for quick access to rewrite any block of text you want.
The more you use Type, the more use you’ll find for these rewriting directions. It’s especially helpful if you have multiple clients with different voices. You can just write without being overly worried about hewing to any particular style, and then when it’s done, apply the “brush” of your choice:
Conclusion
Whether you're a solo content creator or part of a larger team, maintaining consistency in your writing is crucial for building trust and engagement with your audience—and holding onto your job. Type's flexible approach to saving and reusing prompts—whether for generating content, transforming text, or maintaining specific tones of voice—gives you the tools you need to create content that remains true to your style, even when working with AI assistance.
By leveraging these preset features, you don't just reduce your writing time. You also can significantly reduce the time spent crafting prompts, ensuring your writing maintains its desired tone across different pieces. You can even capture your own unique voice for those days when the words aren't flowing as naturally as you'd like —letting you automate the mechanical aspects of writing while keeping full creative control over your voice and style.
Ready to streamline your writing workflow while maintaining your unique voice? Start your free trial of Type today and experience the difference consistent, AI-enhanced content can make.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why should I save AI writing prompts?
Crafting a good prompt takes time, and once you find one that works, you don’t want to reinvent the wheel. Saving prompts lets you reuse effective instructions instantly, ensuring consistency and efficiency across your content.
What’s the difference between saved prompts and text transformations?
Saved prompts generate new content based on predefined instructions, while text transformations modify existing text. For example, you might hold onto a prompt for drafting blog posts and a separate transformation to rewrite bullet points into smooth narrative paragraphs. These aren't prompts that would make much sense being issued together, and executing them separately gives you more control.
How do style brushes help maintain tone consistency?
Style brushes allow you to apply a specific tone, voice, or writing style to any text. Whether you’re switching between brand voices, adjusting character dialogue, or refining a draft, a collection of different transformations can help you maintain consistency quickly, and without starting over.
Can I use AI to match my personal writing style?
Yes! You can upload or paste in a sample of your writing and ask AI to analyze your tone. Once identified, you can retain a style prompt or transformation to apply that same tone to any of you content down the road, keeping your writing authentically "you."
What if I work with multiple clients who need different tones?
Saved prompts and transformations make it easy to switch between writing styles. Instead of manually tweaking content for each client, you can build a collection of presets for different voices and apply them as needed.
