Prompt Library
Once you have a transcript, this is the useful part. These are prompts built for the shapes a transcript actually takes — long, timestamped, and slightly messy. Copy one, paste it above your transcript in any assistant, and replace the bracketed parts.
These prompts are plain text. Nothing on this page is transmitted anywhere — copy what you want and use it in whatever assistant you already use.
Summarise
Compress a long video into something you can read in under a minute.
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Summarise this transcript in five bullet points. -
Write a 150-word abstract of this video for someone who has not seen it. -
Give me a TL;DR in two sentences, then a longer summary in five. -
Summarise the argument in one paragraph, and state the conclusion it is trying to reach. -
Turn this transcript into a one-page briefing note for a colleague.
Study and recall
Turn a lecture into something you can revise from later.
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Generate 15 study questions from this transcript, from easy to hard, with answers. -
Create ten multiple-choice questions from this video and give the correct answer for each. -
Write a flashcard set from this transcript in "term — definition" format. -
Identify the five concepts a student must understand to follow this video. -
Point out where this lecture contradicts common beginner misconceptions, if it does.
Extract and verify
Pull out specifics, numbers and claims you might want to check.
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List every factual claim the speaker makes, with the timestamp it appears at. -
Extract all statistics, dates and figures mentioned in this transcript. -
Pull out the ten most quotable lines and give each a timestamp. -
List the questions the speaker raises but does not answer. -
What claims here would need an independent source before I repeated them?
Repurpose
Turn one long video into more content.
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Write a blog post of about 800 words based on this transcript, in the first person. -
Draft five social posts promoting this video, one per platform, each under 280 characters. -
Write show notes for this episode, including chapter timestamps. -
Turn this interview into a series of ten short standalone posts. -
Write an email newsletter announcing this video, aimed at existing subscribers.
Analyze
Look at how the argument is built and how the speaker communicates.
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Analyse the rhetorical structure of this talk. What is the hook, and how does it build? -
How would a critic summarise the strongest objection to this argument? -
Describe the speaker's communication style, pace, and use of rhetoric. -
Map the emotional arc of this talk from start to finish. -
What does this video assume the audience already knows, and does it explain it?
Rewrite
Change the register without losing the content.
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Rewrite this transcript at a 6th-grade reading level without losing any information. -
Condense this transcript to 25% of its length, keeping every concrete detail. -
Rewrite this as a script with section headings and stage directions. -
Convert this into a spoken-word script timed for a 10-minute delivery. -
Rewrite this as a set of frequently asked questions with answers.
Writing your own
A transcript prompt works better when it names the format you want, the audience, and the length. "Summarise this" gets you something generic; "Summarise this in five bullets for a new employee who has never used the product" gets you something you can send. Add the timestamps when the answer should be checkable against the video — asking for a timestamp per point usually forces the model to stay grounded in what was actually said.