Remix Systems/Frank Coyne

Nine prompts

Copy one, paste it into Codex. Do one at a time. Stacked easiest first.

Prompt 00 · do this first

Bring your projects into the vault

The work you did in Codex projects and in ChatGPT is not lost. It just lives outside the vault. Bring it in one project at a time, starting with the one you will pick up again soonest.

A Codex project

Open a chat in that project. Click the + under the chat box, choose Files and folders, and add your My AI folder. Then paste this:

I did this work in this project, but it belongs in my vault, the My AI folder I just added. Bring it in. Read this chat and the files in this project. In the vault, create one project note in 80-Projects/ that says what the project is, who is involved, what we decided, and where it ended up. Save each finished document as its own Markdown note next to it. Wikilink every person and organization. Copy files, never move or delete the originals. Leave out anything about a student or a minor. When you are done, list what you created and where.

A ChatGPT project

Two steps, because Codex cannot see inside ChatGPT. First, in ChatGPT, open the project and paste this:

Write a handoff document for this whole project so I can move it into another system. Include what the project is for, who is involved, what we decided, what is still open, and the final version of everything we made, in full and word for word, not summarized. Use Markdown.

Copy what it writes. Then open a new chat in Frank's Vault and paste this, with the handoff underneath:

Below is a handoff from a ChatGPT project. File it in my vault. Create one project note in 80-Projects/ with what the project is, who is involved, what we decided and what is still open. Save each finished document as its own Markdown note next to it. Wikilink every person and organization. Leave out anything about a student or a minor. Tell me what you created and where.

If the ChatGPT project has files you uploaded, download them and drop them in 00-Inbox/. Prompt 4 files them.

The elder care planning you did this month is a good first one. Next time you or a friend needs it, it will be there.

Prompt 01

Find out what you already have

What can you do in this vault right now? List the commands and skills that exist, in plain language, and tell me which ones are not wired up yet.

Start here. It answers "what am I supposed to know" without you having to know it. Ask it again any week you forget.

Prompt 02

Teach it to sound like you

Read the last 15 emails I sent from Gmail. Do not read anything I received, only what I wrote. Learn how I actually write: sentence length, how I open, how I close, how formal I am with principals versus with DPS. Then update 20-My-AI/voice.md and show me what you changed.
If you only do one

This is the highest-value five minutes in the list. Everything it drafts for you afterward gets better. Needs Gmail connected, which is prompt 6.

Prompt 03

Turn a meeting into action items

Take my most recent meeting note. Pull out every action item in it, including the ones that belong to other people, not just mine. Put mine in today.md under a Follow-ups heading, and note who owes me the rest.

Do this with one meeting first, not your whole history. Once you trust the output, the same sentence works on anything.

You rated "turning a meeting into follow-ups" and "tracking who owes you what" a 5 out of 10 each. This is that.

Prompt 04

Bring your documents in

I dropped some documents in 00-Inbox/. Process them. Convert them to Markdown, link every person and organization you find as a wikilink, file each one where it belongs, and tell me what you did. Move the originals into 00-Inbox/_processed/ so I can decide later whether to delete them.

Drop PDFs, Word docs, Google Docs exports, whatever. This is how your existing context gets into the system. Nothing is ever deleted for you.

Make a Finder shortcut to 00-Inbox/ first. Drag the folder into your Finder sidebar. Then this becomes a habit instead of a task.

Prompt 05

Import your transcripts properly

I have meeting transcripts to bring in. Ask me where they are, then import them one at a time. For each one: write it as a dated note in 10-Timestamped/, wikilink every person and organization, pull out the decisions and the action items, and tell me what you found. Do not summarize them all at once, and do not guess at any name you cannot read clearly.

The system is only interesting at volume. Two transcripts tell you nothing. Fifty start telling you that you have raised the same concern in four separate conversations and never acted on it.

Prompt 06

Connect Gmail, Calendar and Drive

Walk me through connecting Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Drive, one at a time. Do not give me all three sets of steps at once. Start with Gmail, wait until it works, then move to the next. If a step needs something I do not have, say so and stop.

The "one at a time, do not give me all three at once" part is deliberate. Keep it in the prompt.

Prompt 07

Build your morning

Every morning I want one page. Check my Google Calendar for today, check my open action items, check my Apple Notes for anything I captured on my phone, and give me: what is on my calendar, the three things that actually matter today, and anything I promised someone and have not done. Write it into today.md. Then save it as a command called /morning so I can just say that tomorrow.

This is the one you described on the survey: "Calendaring, with alignment to goals and then outcomes and communication after." Needs prompt 6 done first, and Apple Notes may need a hand from Andy.

Prompt 08

Install the Obsidian CLI

I use Obsidian to browse this vault. Walk me through installing the Obsidian CLI so you can read the live vault instead of just the files on disk. One step at a time.

Done on 25 September. You installed it with Andy and turned it on in Obsidian settings. Nothing more to do here.

Still open

Two threads from the 8/24 session

The coaching exercise. Pick it back up where you left it. It is one of the chats you already had open.

The executive coaching practice. When you are ready, say "help me set up a project for my coaching practice" and it will build the folder, the prospect list and the offer doc with you.

The rule

Tell it the one next thing

If any of this starts feeling like homework, stop and type:

Just tell me the one next thing.

It will listen. Slow and used beats fast and abandoned.