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Make keyboard shortcuts for common prompts
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- Name
- Peter Hartree
- @peterhartree
Are you writing the same prompts over and over again? Save them to your text expander.
For example, I get this when I type ",su": 1
Please give a comprehensive summary of this transcript.
{clipboard}
The clipboard placeholder is automatically replaced with whatever text is in my clipboard. Here's the Raycast config:

Usually, my prompts are longer. For example: correct my French and help me learn.
Alternative: Claude Skills or ChatGPT projects
In Claude, you can define Skills based on your custom prompts, and then reference them with a trigger phrase. They load dynamically when needed, work across all your conversations, and are easy to share and maintain.
In ChatGPT, you can save common prompts into project instructions, then use a trigger phrase within that project when you want to use it.
Footnotes
An unusually short prompt. Works well for me, with GPT-5 Thinking. ↩
