📖 How to read and remember books in minutes: 4 prompt sequence



Reddit user Savings-Reading-1507 suggested a great 4-step prompt sequence to summarize and memorize any book.



1️⃣ Prompt 1:

🤖 Please summarize [BOOK] by [AUTHOR]



2️⃣ Prompt 2:

🤖 What are all of the chapters in the book?



(From here, I'd pick out chapters that provided the best teachings based on what I want to learn}



3️⃣ Prompt 3:

🤖 In [BEST CHAPTER], what are the most important 20% of learnings about [LEARNING OBJECTIVE] that will help me understand 80% of it.



(At this point, we've got the most important points from the chapter, based on what you want to get out of it. No fluff. Now we're going to use a scientifically proven way to remember it all.)



4️⃣ Prompt 4:

🤖 Convert those key lessons from the chapter into engaging stories and metaphors to aid my memorization.



ChatGPT will split out easy-to-understand stories that make it super simple to remember what you've just read.



5️⃣ (Bonus) Prompt 5:

🤖 Write me an action list of how I can apply [KEY LESSON] into [PLACE YOU WANT TO APPLY IT]



I tried it and it works like magic. How do you like it?



🏷️ #book #reading #summary #prompt #gpt4



🪆Russian: добавьте “Веди разговор на русском” в конце промпта



🇺🇦 Ukrainian: Введіть "Відповідай українською" в конце запиту



@ppprompt