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10 Coda AI prompts to try
Prompts to sprinkle time-savings throughout your workday.
Prompt writing demystified: quick examples you can use.
Figuring out how to write your first AI prompts might feel intimidating, but fear not! We have curated a collection of 10 Coda AI prompts that will help you kickstart your prompt writing journey with confidence. And even if you are a seasoned prompt writer, you'll likely find some new ideas, and we encourage everyone to celebrate every time-saving win.What's in here.
AI prompt types
- Brainstorm with Coda AI: Get suggestions, generate taglines.
- Format and change content: Format text, convert a table to an article or bullet points to a table.
- Create or clean up data: Generate fake data or a table of dates, tidy up your data.
- Get quick insights: Get insights on a new topic or from your data.
Brainstorm with Coda AI.
Get suggestions.
Ask for feedback on any plans, ideas, or writeups.- Prompt: What are pros and cons?
- AI feature used: AI chat
Generate taglines.
If you're drafting any content, AI chat can offer any suggestions, including paragraph taglines.- Prompt: Come up with taglines for each paragraph.
- AI feature used: AI chat
Format and change content.
Format text.
Add emphasis, instantly.- Prompt: Bold the key words.
- AI feature used: AI assistant
Convert a table to an article.
Expand upon table data in longer form, or convert to bullet points.- Prompt: Turn (table) into a friendly article.
- AI feature used: AI chat
Convert bullet points to a table.
Create a table of data from your rough notes.- Prompt: Convert (bullet points) to a table.
- AI feature used: AI chat
Create or clean up data.
Generate fake data.
Create tables from scratch, filled with any data of your choice.- Prompt: Make a table of 10 fake names, email addresses, titles and companies.
- AI feature used: AI assistant
Create a table of dates.
If you're building a data set, Coda AI can create the starting point.- Prompt: Make a table of dates from 1/1/2023 to 2/1/2023.
- AI feature used: AI assistant
Clean up your data.
If you have mismatched data, Coda AI can help tidy it up. Just @ reference the column to clean up in your prompt.- Prompt: Tidy up this data to follow a First name Last name pattern. Remove any middle names or initials:
@Names
Example: John Smith - AI feature used: AI column
Get quick insights.
Get info on a new topic.
If you're exploring a new topic, get quick insights that you can add to your doc.- Prompt: What are 10 things IT admins care about when evaluating new software? Make it a table.
- AI feature used: AI chat
Get insights from your data.
If you have a table filled with customer transcripts, feedback or other qualitative data, AI can create any summaries or share selected quotes.- Prompt: Extract two interesting quotes from
@Transcript
. - AI feature used: AI column
What's next?
If you haven't already, explore our how to get started with Coda AI guide, which gives prompt writing tips and a deep dive into each feature. Now that you have some inspiration, check our our Gallery for AI-enabled docs you can copy to build your workflows.Was this helpful?
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