# Make keyboard shortcuts for common prompts

Published: 2025-08-21T00:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2025-10-31T00:00:00.000Z
Canonical: https://wow.pjh.is/journal/text-expander-prompts

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]

[^1]: An unusually short prompt. Works well for me, with GPT-5 Thinking.

**Prompt**

```

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](https://www.raycast.com/core-features/snippets) config:

![Raycast UI showing summary prompt snippet](https://wow.pjh.is/static/images/blog/raycast-snippet.jpeg)

Usually, my prompts are longer. For example: [correct my French and help me learn](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/correct-my-french-teachable-moments).

## Alternative: Claude Skills or ChatGPT projects

In Claude, you can define [Skills](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/claude-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](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10169521-projects-in-chatgpt#h_1986feca84), then use a trigger phrase within that project when you want to use it.