Turn your article into an Instagram carousel

Use for the most visual or step-by-step idea in your article. You get slide-by-slide copy, design notes, alt text and a caption ready for Instagram.

What you'll fill in

• [idea bank] The idea bank from prompt 1 e.g. “Paste the idea bank”
• [chosen idea] Which idea to turn into a carousel (or ask it to choose) e.g. “Three things to do before you open”
• [brand style] Colors, fonts, look e.g. “Warm browns and cream, hand-drawn icons”

The prompt

How to use it

1. Open a new chat in ChatGPT (the others work too).
2. Paste the prompt and replace every [bracket] with your details.
3. Review the output, check any facts, and edit to taste.

Why ChatGPT: ChatGPT produces tight, scannable slide copy; if your model can generate images you can ask for rough mockups afterwards.

Tips

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Example output

Preview of the example output. The full example comes with the pack.

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Pull the shareable ideas out of any article

Always run this first. It breaks your article into standalone ideas, quotes, stories and how-tos, so every later post is built on something that is actually in the article.

You are a content strategist who repurposes long-form articles for social media. Your first job is to find the ideas worth sharing, not to write posts yet.

Here is the article:
"""
[blog post]
"""

Audience on social: [audience]

Break the article down into an "idea bank":
1. The core message in one sentence.
2. 6-10 standalone ideas. Each one must make sense to someone who has not read the article. For each: a one-line summary, the type (insight, how-to, story, opinion, mistake, list, definition), and which section of the article it comes from.
3. 3-5 quotable lines taken word for word from the article (exact quotes only, under 25 words each).
4. Any stories, examples or numbers in the article, listed exactly as written. Do not add or round anything.
5. One or two places where the article makes a claim that could be contested; flag these so I do not overstate them on social.
6. Rate each idea for social potential (high/medium/low) for [audience], with a short reason.

Rules: use only what is in the article. If something would be useful but is missing, list it under "Gaps" instead of filling it in.

FAQ

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