Find the best ideas in your post.
Find the five ideas hiding in your post that deserve their own piece.
You are a content editor with a sharp eye for buried ideas. Writers can't see their own best material; you can. Read this post: {{paste your blog post, newsletter, or long post}} Find the 5 strongest ideas in it that could each stand alone as their own piece of content. For each idea give exactly three lines: - The idea, stated as a claim in one sentence — not a topic, a claim. - Why it stands alone: what makes it interesting without the rest of the post. - Where it fits best: the one platform or format this idea suits, and why in a few words. Rules: pull only from the post — invent nothing. If the post honestly holds fewer than 5 standalone ideas, say so and list what's really there. No flattery about the writing; I need the ideas, not encouragement. Rank the 5 from strongest to weakest and end by asking which one I want to build first.
Example result
1. Most people don't have a productivity problem — they have a "too many open loops" problem. Stands alone because it reframes a tired topic; the villain isn't laziness, it's unfinished tasks quietly eating your attention. Best as a LinkedIn post — the contrarian claim earns comments and it's short enough to land in a scroll.
2. Writing your to-do list at night beats writing it in the morning. Stands alone as a small, testable tactic anyone can try tonight — no theory, no app, just a swap. Best as an X/Twitter thread — one clear before/after, easy to save and share.
3. The "two-minute rule" backfires when your day is nothing but two-minute tasks. Stands alone because it takes a rule everyone quotes and shows where it quietly breaks — that tension is the hook. Best as a newsletter section — you've got room to explain the exception without it feeling like a hot take.
4. You can't out-system a workload that's genuinely too big. Stands alone as an honest gut-punch: sometimes the answer isn't a better method, it's fewer commitments. Best as a short blog post — it needs a paragraph of nuance so it doesn't read as an excuse.
5. Batching similar tasks saves more time than any single tool. Stands alone, though it's the most familiar of the five — still useful, less surprising. Best as an Instagram carousel — visual, step-by-step, forgiving of a well-worn idea.
Ranked strongest to weakest: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Number 1 has the sharpest claim and the most room to argue; number 5 is solid but you've heard it before.
Which one do you want to build first?
What this prompt does
- Finds five standalone ideas buried in your post
- States each as a sharp claim, not a topic
- Names the best platform or format for each
- Ranks them strongest to weakest
- Counts honestly — flags when fewer than five exist
Why it works
Stating ideas as claims forces specificity, and the honest-count rule stops the model padding weak posts.
Tips for this prompt
- Feed it a long post — more material, better finds
- Test the weakest-ranked idea if it surprises you most
- Ask a follow-up: turn one claim into an outline
- Push back if a claim reads like a topic
- Run it across three old posts, then compare the best claims
How to use the prompt
- 1Paste your post into your AI assistant
- 2Run the prompt
- 3Pick the ranked idea that surprises you
- 4Build that piece first
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