5 AI prompts for capturing every kind of knowledge you carry (save this) 🐾
Career wisdom, family stories, life lessons, forgotten expertise, and the archive that holds it all. Five fill-in prompts ready to begin today.
This week is about knowledge and legacy capture — and today I’m giving you five prompts for five different kinds of knowledge worth capturing. Save this. Share it with anyone whose knowledge the world would be poorer without.
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Prompt 1 — Career Knowledge Nobody Wrote Down
“Please interview me about the professional knowledge I’ve built through experience — not my resume, but the real knowledge. Ask one question at a time about: the most important lesson my career taught me that I couldn’t have read in a book, what I learned about [your field] that took years to understand, a mistake I made early that I’d never make again and why, and what I’d tell someone starting in my field today that they won’t hear anywhere else. Help me go deeper with each answer — follow up until I’ve said something specific and true.”
Use for: capturing the professional wisdom that took decades to build and exists nowhere in writing
Prompt 2 — Family Stories Only You Can Still Tell
“Help me identify and capture family stories that might otherwise be lost. First ask me: who in my family history do I know the most about that younger generations know the least? What [family decisions / events / migrations / struggles] shaped everything that came after? What stories do I find myself telling that nobody else can tell? Then interview me about each story — asking what was happening in the world then, what they wanted, what they sacrificed, what they’d want descendants to know.”
Use for: the family history that exists only in your memory — the where-we-came-from stories, the stories about family members who are gone
Prompt 3 — Life Lessons Worth Passing On
“Interview me about the life lessons I’ve learned — not generic advice but what I know from having lived. Ask one at a time about: what I know about [relationships / money / work / loss / raising children] that I couldn’t have known at thirty, the hardest thing I’ve been through and what it taught me, what I’d do differently and what I’d do exactly the same, and what I most want the people I love to understand that I’m not sure I’ve ever said clearly. Help me find the language for things I know but haven’t fully articulated.”
Use for: the wisdom that came from living — the kind that experience gives you and books can’t replicate
Prompt 4 — Discover What You’ve Forgotten You Know
“Help me discover the knowledge I’ve forgotten I have. Ask one at a time: What do I do so automatically that I’ve stopped thinking of it as expertise? What have I been through that taught me something I rarely talk about? What do people come to me for help with that I’ve never thought of as expertise? What do I know about [a specific place / period / community / industry] that most people don’t? What skills from an earlier chapter have I mostly set aside but could still teach?”
Use for: the second pass through your knowledge map — the expertise you’ve integrated so deeply you forgot it was learned
Prompt 5 — Shape It Into Something Worth Keeping
“I’ve captured some [career knowledge / family stories / life lessons] and want to shape it into something that can be shared and kept. Here’s the material: [paste or summarize your captured content]. Please help me turn this into [a letter to my younger self / a family history organized as living stories / a one-page personal credo / a wisdom letter to (specific person)]. Keep my voice. Add shape and organization. Make it something worth reading more than once.”
Use for: the final step — turning raw captured material into a finished document that can be given to someone who will keep it
🎬 Watch today’s Mini Lesson: The Knowledge Map Method — three steps for building the catalog of everything you know before you begin capturing.
⬇️ THE KNOWLEDGE MAP METHOD — ALL 3 STEPS FROM TUESDAY’S MINI LESSON VIDEO ⬇️
📌 Step 1 — Inventory the Obvious Categories
“I want to map the categories of knowledge I carry. Ask me questions one at a time about: my professional expertise and specific domains within it, the family history I’m the keeper of, specific life skills I’ve developed over decades, communities I’ve been part of and what I know about how they work, what each decade of my life taught me, and any specific subjects I’ve studied or lived that most people in my life don’t know about. Summarize into a Knowledge Map I can see all at once.”
📌 Step 2 — Discover What You’ve Forgotten You Know
“Now that I have my obvious categories, help me discover the knowledge I’ve forgotten I have. Ask one at a time: What do I do so automatically that I’ve stopped thinking of it as expertise? What have I been through that taught me something I rarely talk about? What do people come to me for help with that I’ve never thought of as expertise? What do I know about a specific place, period, or community that most people don’t? What skills from an earlier chapter have I mostly set aside?”
📌 Step 3 — Prioritize the Capture Sequence
“Here is my completed Knowledge Map: [share your categories]. Help me prioritize by asking: Which contains knowledge most at risk of being lost — things only I know, undocumented anywhere? Which would be most valuable to specific people in my life? Which have I been meaning to capture the longest? Which would take least time to begin? Give me a suggested capture sequence — starting with what matters most and is most at risk.”
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Save this. Share it with someone whose knowledge matters — or with someone in their life who wants to help them capture it. 🐾
— Debbie
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