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The most essential part of the prompt is the first section(s) that does message numbering, and then the parts that enable you to do operations using message numbers or ranges of them.

After using message numbering in ChatGPT I can never go back to working without that.

For example suppose you have a long chat with a bunch of iterations on some idea or piece of content.

You can simply say “Continue from //16” to continue the chat from that message (basically making a branch) without having to copy and paste it again.

Or you can say “revise //12 but make it more professional and also merge with //distill 5-7” to revise message 12 and merge with the distilled points from messages 5 through 7.

There are many more powerful things you can do with the /t tagging and /s sets, and the //! Loop command and //f function command to automate repetitive tasks such as expanding content, pulling sets of messages for a purpose, or iteratively writing a longer article etc.




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