# Prompt: turn an article into a carousel that makes sense

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

- Type: prompt
- Category: creation
- Labels: andie, carousel, formats, prompts
- Author: Redação Swonkie, Equipa editorial
- Published: 2026-08-14
- Canonical: https://swonkie.com/en/hub/article-into-carousel/

## Prompt

```
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.
```

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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.