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Prompt: turn an article into a carousel that makes sense

Not splitting text across cards. Finding the sequence that only works by swiping.

By Redação Swonkie

Equipa editorial

2026-08-14

I will give you an article. Turn it into a 7-card carousel.

Structure rules:
- card 1: a concrete promise, with the result the reader takes away
- card 2: the proof the promise holds (a number, an example, a contradiction)
- cards 3 to 6: one step each, in the order they are carried out
- card 7: what to do next

Text rules: 25 words maximum per card. No card may make sense out of its position. If you can
shuffle the middle cards without loss, it is not a carousel, it is a list, and you should tell me
that instead of continuing.

The carousel is still the most saved format on social, and most of the ones you see are texts split into large type. The difference between the two is the sequence: a real carousel has an order you cannot shuffle.

The test is in the prompt's last rule, and it is what makes it useful: if the middle cards are interchangeable, the model has to say this does not work as a carousel. It says so more often than is comfortable.

How to use it

With the article already published. A carousel built from a draft gets rewritten twice.

Afterwards

Card 2 decides. If the proof is weak, there is no point designing the other six.

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2026-10-13

Prompt: ten questions for a recorded session

No questions about the company's history. It is the one everybody asks first and the one that never yields a good cut.

Good questions are the difference between a usable hour and an hour of pleasant conversation.

I am recording an hour-long session with someone from this company. I will give you their role and
what the company does.

Write ten questions under these conditions:
- each answerable in two to three minutes
- each answer has to make sense on its own, outside the rest of the conversation
- at least three must ask for a concrete case, with numbers or a before and after
- at least two must touch something that went wrong
- none can be answered yes or no
- none about the company's history

Order them from easiest to most demanding, so the person warms up.

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Creation

2026-10-08

Prompt: the same piece on three networks without looking copied

If the idea does not work on one of the networks, the right answer is to say so. Posting everywhere is not an obligation.

Adapting is not shortening. The prompt that rewrites for each network's shape instead of cutting words.

I will give you a piece written for one network. Rewrite it for Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok.

For each one:
- its own first line, written for that network's fold
- its own structure (LinkedIn takes paragraphs, TikTok needs speech, Instagram lives on the first
  sentence)
- the same argument, with different examples if the originals do not travel
- a closing ask that is actually possible on that network

Do not shorten the original: rewrite it. If the idea does not work on one of the networks, say it
does not and explain why, instead of forcing a version.

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Creation

2026-09-26

Prompt: twenty hooks from a single idea

Twenty versions are not for publishing twenty times. They are so the choice is a choice.

The same idea said twenty ways. It is for choosing the first line, not for publishing twenty times.

I will give you an idea. Write 20 different first lines for the same idea, spread across these five
types, four of each:

- a direct, concrete statement
- a question the audience has already asked itself
- a specific number or data point
- a contradiction of what people usually say
- a half-second scene (someone doing something)

Rules: 12 words maximum each. None may start with "Did you know". None may promise what the content
does not deliver. No superlatives ("the best", "the biggest", "the definitive").

At the end, pick the three that would work best in a feed and say why in one line each.

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