Socratic tutor that won't just answer
Be my tutor for {{topic}}. Rules for the entire conversation, which you must not break: 1. Never give me the answer to a problem I'm working on. Ask the question that gets me unst…
Education & Learning prompts
Practical education & learning prompts tested with useful AI apps.
Explain it at four levels until it clicks
Explain {{concept}} at four levels, each complete on its own: 1. INTUITION — one paragraph, no jargon, built on something I already experience daily. Then say precisely where this…
Run a workshop people don't zone out in
Design a {{duration}} workshop on {{topic}} for {{n}} people who are {{roles and level}}. Success = they can {{capability}} afterwards. 1. State the one thing they must leave able…
Learn a language with a corrected daily loop
Be my {{language}} practice partner. My level: {{level}}. Goal: {{e.g. handle a work meeting}}. Each session: 1. Speak to me only in {{language}}, at one notch above my level, on …
Practice problems calibrated to my edge
Generate practice problems for {{topic}} at my level. Recent evidence of my level: {{describe what I can and can't do, or paste an attempt}}. Give me 8 problems: - 2 that I should…
Turn a skill into deliberate practice
I want to get better at {{skill}}. Current level: {{honest description}}. Recent example of my work: {{paste or describe}}. I can practise {{minutes}} per day. 1. Decompose the sk…
Prepare for an exam by working backwards
I have {{exam}} in {{days}} days. Syllabus: {{paste}}. Past paper patterns: {{describe or paste}}. My current state: {{what's solid, what's shaky, what's untouched}}. 1. Work back…
Give feedback that actually lands
Help me give feedback to {{person, role, relationship to me}} about {{situation}}. What I've observed: {{specific incidents with dates}}. What I want to change: {{behaviour}}. Cont…
Turn a textbook chapter into a one-hour study session
Here's the chapter: {{paste it, or the section headings and key passages}}. Course context: {{what came before, what I'm being assessed on}}. I have {{60}} minutes and {{my current…
Make notes you'll actually reread
Turn this material into notes I'll actually use: {{paste lecture transcript, chapter, or article}}. Purpose: {{exam, work application, long-term understanding}}. Produce: 1. THE S…
Learn a hard topic with a real syllabus
I want to learn {{topic}} to the point where I can {{concrete capability}}. I currently know: {{honest baseline}}. I have {{hours per week}} for {{weeks}}. Build a syllabus: 1. De…
Study from a dense paper without drowning
Help me read this paper: {{paste or attach}}. My background: {{level}}. Why I'm reading it: {{purpose}}. 1. THE CLAIM — what the paper argues, in two sentences, and why it mattere…
Build a reading list that goes somewhere
Build me a reading path for {{topic}}, aimed at {{goal}}. My background: {{level}}. 1. Give 8-12 items in reading order, each with: title, author, year, format, why it comes at th…
Teach me by making me teach it back
I'm going to explain {{concept}} to you as if you were {{audience, e.g. a smart 15-year-old}}. Here's my explanation: {{paste}}. Respond as follows: 1. Play the audience: ask the …
Turn a week of your own mistakes into a study list
You are my coach. Below are the mistakes I actually made this week while learning {{skill or subject}}: {{paste them - wrong answers, failed attempts, corrections you received, thi…
Finish the course you abandoned in week two
I started {{course or book}} and stopped at {{where}}. Act as a coach who gets me over the line, not a motivator. Remaining contents: {{paste the module or chapter list}}. Why I st…
Build a flashcard deck that isn't trivia
You are turning source material into a spaced-repetition deck for someone who needs to use this knowledge, not recite it. I will paste the material. Produce a table with columns: …
Work out why a concept still isn't sticking
I have studied {{topic}} and it still does not click. Act as a diagnostician, not a re-explainer. Here is my own explanation of it, in my words, mistakes included: {{write your und…
Rebuild a skill you learned once and have not used in years
You are a coach for people relearning something, not beginners - the wrong plan wastes weeks on things they still know. Skill and the last time I used it seriously: {{e.g. SQL, fo…
Study a course you can only listen to on the commute
You are a tutor designing an audio-first study loop for someone who cannot take notes while learning. Material: {{paste transcript, chapter text, or lecture notes}}. My situation: …
Turn a dense API doc into a working mental model in an hour
You are teaching me an unfamiliar API I have to build against today. Below is its documentation. Do not summarise it - build me a mental model. Give me: 1. THE SHAPE — the 5-8 co…
Fit a certification syllabus around a full-time job
You are a study coach who plans around real calendars, not ideal ones. Certification and exam date: {{name, provider, date booked or target}}. Official syllabus or domain weightin…
Build your own thirty-day ramp plan for a new job
You are a mentor who has watched people succeed and fail in their first month. My role: {{title, team, company type, who I report to}}. What I was told I am here to do: {{paste the…
Turn a conference you attended into something you actually use
You are a coach who has watched people come back from events full of energy and change nothing. My raw notes, session titles and any recordings text: {{paste everything, unedited}}…
Get up to speed on an unfamiliar domain before tomorrow's meeting
You are briefing me before a meeting on a subject I do not know. Domain: {{topic or industry}}. Why I am in the room: {{my role and what I have to decide or contribute}}. Who else …
Design the onboarding curriculum for the next person in your role
You are an instructional designer. I am writing the learning path for whoever takes over my role. My role: {{title, team, what I own}}. The things I actually do weekly: {{paste a r…
Get the most out of thirty minutes with someone more senior than you
You are my coach. I have a short session booked with someone whose time is expensive, and I usually waste it on questions they could answer in a blog post. Return exactly four sec…
Learn enough of a field to hire someone better than you at it
You are a tutor helping me get literate in a field fast, because I have to hire and manage someone in it and I cannot fake it. The field: {{name it}}. The role and what they will …
Close the gap between your skills and the job you want next year
You are a blunt career coach. I want a specific job in about a year and I would rather hear what is missing than be encouraged. The role I want, with a real posting pasted in: {{p…
Get up to speed on a tool your company just bought and made you the owner of
You are a patient tutor helping me learn a tool fast, because someone above me bought it and I am now the person the team asks. The tool and what it is meant to replace: {{name it…
Turn a tutorial binge into one thing you can actually do
You are a coach who cares about what I can do on Monday, not what I watched. I have consumed a pile of tutorials, videos and articles on one topic and produced nothing. Below is wh…
Learn from a mistake at work without replaying it for a week
You are a calm mentor running a personal post-mortem. You are not here to reassure me. What happened, in plain order of events: {{paste, including what I said or shipped}}. What I…
Check whether you actually learned what you studied last month
You are my tutor running a retention check, not a lesson. Below is what I studied in the last month (topics, sources, dates) and what I was trying to be able to do with it. 1. CLO…
Run a study group that does not fizzle in week two
You are helping me run a small study group of working adults who will all be tired on the night. What we are studying: {{topic, book or course}}. How many of us and our starting l…
Get fluent in the numbers your company runs on
You are a tutor teaching me the metrics my own company lives by, so I stop nodding along in meetings. Below are the metric names I hear, any definitions or dashboards I have, and m…
Study for interviews in a field you are switching into
You are coaching someone changing fields who has interviews coming. Below is my current background, the target role, and how many weeks I have. Build the study plan. 1. THE GAP - …