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Summarise Long Text: AI Prompt Exercises

Summarising documents and drafting emails are where AI saves the most time at work — if the prompt says what matters. These 10 exercises build up step by step, starting with meeting notes to actions, brief your manager on a report, tl;dr of an email thread.

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1

Meeting Notes to Actions

Free

Write a prompt asking Claude to summarise meeting notes you'll paste below into decisions made and action items, with an owner for each action.

What a good prompt includes
  • the task (summarise)
  • the decisions
  • the action items
  • an owner for each

Ask Claude to summarise the notes into decisions and action items, with who owns each action.

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2

Brief Your Manager on a Report

Free

Write a prompt asking Claude to summarise a 20-page report for your manager in 5 bullet points, focusing on risks and costs.

What a good prompt includes
  • the task (summarise)
  • the audience
  • the format (5 bullets)
  • the focus

Ask for a summary for your manager, 5 bullet points, focused on risks and costs.

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3

TL;DR of an Email Thread

Free

Write a prompt asking Claude to read a long email thread and give a 3-sentence TL;DR, plus anything you need to reply to.

What a good prompt includes
  • the source (email thread)
  • a short summary
  • what you need to reply to

Ask for a 3-sentence TL;DR of the email thread and a list of anything you need to reply to.

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4

Article to LinkedIn Post

Write a prompt asking Claude to summarise a news article into a 2-sentence post for your company's LinkedIn page, in a neutral tone.

Solution and instant grading: open it in the practice app (use one of your 20 free picks, or Pro).

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5

Themes in Customer Reviews

Write a prompt asking Claude to read 50 customer reviews and summarise the top 3 complaints and top 3 compliments, with how often each one comes up.

Solution and instant grading: open it in the practice app (use one of your 20 free picks, or Pro).

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6

Key Terms in a Contract

Write a prompt asking Claude to pull the key terms out of a supplier contract — payment terms, notice period and penalties — and flag anything unusual.

Solution and instant grading: open it in the practice app (use one of your 20 free picks, or Pro).

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7

Group Survey Answers

Write a prompt asking Claude to group 200 open-ended staff survey answers into themes, name each theme, and quote one typical answer per theme.

Solution and instant grading: open it in the practice app (use one of your 20 free picks, or Pro).

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9

What Changed Between Versions

Write a prompt asking Claude to compare two versions of a document you'll paste and list only what changed, as bullet points.

Solution and instant grading: open it in the practice app (use one of your 20 free picks, or Pro).

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10

Podcast to Takeaways

Write a prompt asking Claude to turn a 1-hour podcast transcript into the 5 most useful takeaways for a small-business owner, with a timestamp for each.

Solution and instant grading: open it in the practice app (use one of your 20 free picks, or Pro).

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