✏️ Create Your Own Prompt

Creating your own prompt is where TypeBoost really shines.
You can define exactly how the AI should behave, respond, and rewrite your text.

Let’s walk through how to do it, step by step – using a fun example:
👉 “Make this text sound like IKEA wrote it.”

🛠️ Step 1: Open Prompt Settings

  1. Click the TypeBoost icon in your menu bar. Don't see it? Learn how to find it.
  2. Select Settings from the dropdown.
  3. Go to the “Prompts” tab.

Here, you’ll see a list of your saved prompts on the left – and details for the selected prompt on the right.

➕ Step 2: Add a New Prompt

  • Click the “+” button at the bottom of the list to create a new prompt.
  • Give your prompt a name. This is what you’ll search or select when boosting text.
    • Example: “IKEA Style Rewrite”

🏷️ Step 3: Give It Some Extra Details

Before writing your actual prompt, you can define some useful details:

  • Active – Whether the prompt is currently active. Only active prompts show up when boosting text.
  • Tags – Add custom tags to help you find this prompt later. For example, we could add “Swedish” and “Marketing” so it shows up when searching for either.
  • Show changes by default – Decide whether TypeBoost should show a diff (before/after changes) when this prompt is used.
    • Great for small edits like fixing spelling
    • Less helpful for generative prompts (e.g. writing a full email from keywords)
  • Description – A short explanation of what the prompt does.
    • Helps you remember its purpose
    • Also visible to others if you share or publish it later

💬 Step 4: Write Your Prompt Messages

Prompts in TypeBoost are structured like a mini conversation.
You define how the AI should behave by filling in system, user, and optionally AI messages. You can learn more about the different roles in What are prompts?.

🧠 Let's Start with the System Message

Before writing it, ask yourself: What exactly do I want the AI to do – and how should the result sound?

This is your chance to be specific.

Here’s an example system message for our IKEA-style rewrite:

You are a copywriter at IKEA. Rewrite the given text so that it sounds like warm, minimalist Scandinavian marketing copy. Use short, inviting sentences. Add a subtle Scandinavian reference, feeling or metaphor where it fits. Avoid sounding corporate. Respond only with the improved text, no additional comments or explanations.

This tells the AI:

  • Its role (IKEA copywriter)
  • The writing tone (warm, minimal, Scandinavian)
  • Formatting style (short, inviting sentences)
  • What not to do (don’t sound corporate)
  • How to respond (only with the improved text, nothing else)

🙋‍♀️ What About User and AI Messages?

You can leave them blank!

TypeBoost will automatically insert the selected text as the last user message every time you run a prompt.

But if you want to create more advanced prompts (with example inputs and responses), you can add:

  • A user message: to give a sample instruction or format
  • An AI message: to show how the AI should respond

Learn more about advanced prompts in
👉 Prompting Strategies

💾 Step 4: Saving Your Prompt

There’s no save button – everything is saved automatically.
Just close the prompt settings and you’re good to go.

🚀 Step 5: Test and Use It

Now that you’ve created your own prompt, you can use it in your workflow.
This is also the best way to test how well your prompt works.

If something doesn’t feel right, just head back to the prompt settings and tweak it.

Next: Prompting Strategies