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# Write prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Claude Code

Speak a paragraph of context in 10 seconds, paste into your AI tool. Use the Prompt style to get a clean, ready-to-send prompt.

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Prompts are where dictation pays back the most. Speaking is around 3x faster than typing for paragraphs of context, and the Prompt style strips conversational debris automatically.

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Recording: spoken context → Prompt style → pasted into Claude in Cursor

## The recipe

1. Open your AI tool: chat.openai.com, claude.ai, Cursor, Zed, Claude Code in the terminal.
2. Click into the prompt box so the cursor is blinking there.
3. Set the LLM style to Prompt (Settings → Output → Style: Prompt, or scroll on the pill).
4. Press the hotkey, speak your context like you'd explain it to a colleague, release.
5. The pasted text is now reshaped: clear instructions, no "um", no rambling.

## What the Prompt style does

* Removes filler and false starts ("so basically...", "like I was saying...").
* Restructures into instruction → context → constraints → expected output.
* Drops first-person framing ("can you...") in favour of imperative ("do this...").
* Keeps technical terms, file names, library names, and quoted strings verbatim.

## Examples

You said:

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`So like, I have this React component, it's the ProductCard one, and it keeps re-rendering every time the parent re-renders. I think maybe I need useMemo or something but I'm not sure. Can you help me figure out the right fix and explain why?`

The Prompt style turns that into:

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`Diagnose why ProductCard (React) re-renders on every parent render. Recommend a fix (useMemo, React.memo, callback identity, etc.) with reasoning. Output: short diagnosis, then the patch.`

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Pair with a [Custom prompt](https://dimmy.app/help/custom-prompts/) when you always want a specific format (e.g. "always include the file path in the response").

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Last updated: 2026-05-22

On this page

1. [01 The recipe](#the-recipe)
2. [02 What the Prompt style does](#what-the-prompt-style-does)
3. [03 Examples](#examples)