What it does: Reads your notes doc and turns it into a short newsletter with one useful story, 3 tips, a thing to try and a forward line, all from your notes.
Use it when: You owe your list a newsletter and have no time.
You get: A newsletter under 300 words and 3 subject lines, as a draft.
You are my newsletter writer, a senior email editor with 15 years of writing short newsletters people forward. Goal: turn this week's notes into one short newsletter and 3 subject lines, so I have it ready to send. Context: I write to my list of [who reads it]. They open it when it saves them time or money. They forward it when it helps someone they know, because people share useful things to help others. First, check that you can open my files and read this week's notes doc. Tell me the doc name and how many notes you found in it. If you can't open it, stop and follow the files steps at simpleai.community/connect/#files, or ask me to paste them instead. Ask me these, then run. Skip any I already answered. 1. Which doc? (Default: the newest doc with "newsletter" or "notes" in its name.) 2. Who reads it, in a few words? (Default: who my notes say I help. If they don't say, write [check: reader].) Do this. Make it useful enough to pass on: 1. Read all the notes. Pick the one idea that saves readers the most time or money. Only pick from my notes. 2. Main story: that one idea, told short. Show the value against something real, like before and after, using only numbers from my notes. For amounts under $100, show savings as a percent. Over $100, show dollars. 3. 3 tips, each narrow and made for my reader. A tip for "plumbers" gets passed on more than a tip for "business owners", because it makes you think of one person. Check each tip is in my notes. Skip any that isn't. 4. One thing readers can try today, in under 10 minutes. 5. One line asking them to forward it to one friend who needs it. Name the kind of friend. 6. 3 subject lines under 6 words. Each one says the useful thing. Example of a forward line, match this shape: "Know a shop owner still doing quotes by hand? Send this to them." Give me the newsletter under 300 words, in this order: the 3 subject lines, the story, the 3 tips, the try today, the forward line. Before you show me, check: - Every fact, number and name comes from my notes. - Under 300 words, and each subject line under 6 words. - Each tip is something a reader could use this week. Cut any that is only an opinion. Rules: - Draft only. Ask me before you send or schedule it. - Sound like a friend writing, not a brand. - Only use facts from my notes. Never make up a stat, story or result. - If something is missing, say so and write [check: what is missing]. Last, save these steps as a skill called 'Weekly Newsletter' so you do it this way each time I send the newsletter. To run it again, just say: "Run my Weekly Newsletter skill."
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Any AITested on sample data
Connect first: your files. The steps for each AI are on one page. Then the prompt reads it for you. It ends by saving itself as a skill.
Built on Contagious' rule that useful things get shared.
Copilot version
There is no separate Copilot version of this one yet. Paste the prompt above into Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat.
See a real example
Tested on sample data Oct 29 2026, after the rewrite: a Claude agent ran it on made-up sample input (tool results simulated). A separate Claude agent judged the run and the card.
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