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title: "Checklists"
description: "Practical checklists for successful prompting"
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# Checklists

### Master

## Master Checklist

### Before Prompting
- [ ] Goal clearly defined
- [ ] Target audience identified
- [ ] Format determined
- [ ] Constraints defined
- [ ] Examples prepared

### Prompt Creation
- [ ] Role defined
- [ ] Context provided
- [ ] Task clearly formulated
- [ ] Format specified
- [ ] Length indicated
- [ ] Tone set
- [ ] Examples inserted

### After Response
- [ ] Quality checked
- [ ] Completeness verified
- [ ] Format verified
- [ ] Adjustments noted
- [ ] Prompt documented

### Roles

## Roles Checklist

### Business Roles
- [ ] "You are an experienced [role]"
- [ ] Area of expertise mentioned
- [ ] Industry knowledge defined
- [ ] Perspective clarified
- [ ] Responsibilities stated

### Creative Roles
- [ ] Creative background
- [ ] Style references
- [ ] Sources of inspiration
- [ ] Target medium
- [ ] Artistic freedom

### Format

## Format Checklist

### Text Formats
- [ ] Paragraph structure
- [ ] Heading hierarchy
- [ ] List type
- [ ] Emphasis
- [ ] Quote format

### Structured Outputs
- [ ] Table format
- [ ] JSON schema
- [ ] CSV format
- [ ] Markdown structure
- [ ] HTML elements

### Quality

## Quality Checklist

### Content Quality
- [ ] Factually correct
- [ ] Complete
- [ ] Relevant
- [ ] Current
- [ ] Balanced

### Language Quality
- [ ] Grammatically correct
- [ ] Stylistically consistent
- [ ] Appropriate for target audience
- [ ] Understandable
- [ ] Error-free

### Techniques

## Techniques Checklist

### Zero-Shot
- [ ] Task clearly formulated
- [ ] No examples needed
- [ ] Simple structure
- [ ] Direct prompt

### Few-Shot
- [ ] 2-5 examples
- [ ] Consistent format
- [ ] Diverse examples
- [ ] Clear patterns

### Chain-of-Thought
- [ ] Step-by-step guidance
- [ ] Thinking process explained
- [ ] Intermediate results
- [ ] Logical connection

### Applications

## Application Checklists

### Content Creation
- [ ] Topic defined
- [ ] Target audience clear
- [ ] SEO keywords
- [ ] Call-to-Action
- [ ] Length specified

### Data Analysis
- [ ] Data format explained
- [ ] Analysis goal stated
- [ ] Metrics defined
- [ ] Output format
- [ ] Interpretation guidelines

### Problem Solving
- [ ] Problem described
- [ ] Context provided
- [ ] Constraints mentioned
- [ ] Solution criteria
- [ ] Evaluation matrix

### Errors

## Error Checklist

### Avoid Common Mistakes
- [ ] Not too vague
- [ ] Not ambiguous
- [ ] No contradictions
- [ ] Realistic expectations
- [ ] Clear priorities

### Troubleshooting
- [ ] Problem identified
- [ ] Cause analyzed
- [ ] Solution tested
- [ ] Documented
- [ ] Improved

### Optimization

## Optimization Checklist

### Iterative Improvement
- [ ] Base version created
- [ ] Weaknesses identified
- [ ] Improvements tested
- [ ] Best version selected
- [ ] Documented

### Performance Tracking
- [ ] Metrics defined
- [ ] Results measured
- [ ] Comparison conducted
- [ ] Optimized
- [ ] Success verified

**Checklist Tip**: Create your own specific checklists for your most common use cases.