Outline a report or talk
Work & EmailSlides & TalksWriting
Give the length, the audience and what you have already decided, and get only the outline of a report or talk.
Fill the blanks and it copies as you filled it
Outline a on . - Length: - Who reads it: - What I've already decided: - Four main headings, two sub-points under each, one line per sub-point - Give me the outline only, don't write the body
0 of 5 blanks filled · anything left blank copies with its brackets
What this prompt does
Compared with asking the same thing without the length and format lines.estimate
Estimated output tokens
700
Asked loosely
320
This prompt
Energy (Wh)
1.215
Asked loosely
1.215
This prompt
Tokens estimated from characters; energy measured by Jegham et al. 2025.
A shorter answer, but the same energy band — the measurements are per band.
Reported backfire — Specifying output lengthSpecifying a length longer than needed backfires (a 34% increase in 11% of scenarios)
Where these figures come from
Published figures for the rule itself — not what this prompt saves.
Specifying output length
38.7%mean reduction · 95% CI 29.7–47.7%
Podder et al. 2026 BP#5 · 18 use cases / 57 prompts
by modelGPT-4o 35%Command R+ 49%Mistral-7B 32%
Reduced in every scenario. No backfire reported