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Purpose

Sometimes, expressing your ideas can be challenging, leaving you feeling overwhelmed and unsure of where to begin. Generative AI can serve as a valuable tool for efficiently organizing and categorizing your thoughts. When faced with a flood of ideas, you can simply ‘dump’ everything into the AI, and prompt it to summarize and organize the key points to make your task more manageable.

Prompt

Note: The following prompts were tested in Microsoft Copilot for Web. It is most suitable for language based generative AI.

Make sure you modify the prompt below to suit your unit and concepts you'd like to review.

Act as a university student researching <topic or unit>. You need to organize the following information, categorizing them into key themes without adding new ideas: <insert brain dump here>

Explanation

The prompt gives AI a role (a student researching the subject), a task (to organize the information provided), and instructions (categorizing into key themes).

This prompt encourages the AI to organize the information provided to help make your long train of thoughts more organized and approachable.

Examples

The screenshot below demonstrates how the AI can organize information its given into key themes, which is useful with long, unorganized brainstorming.