The highest-leverage category. Do these early; everything else gets better. This is one of the 11 Playbook categories. Each play below is a single move you can run right now, tagged by effort. Filter to the quick ones if you are just getting started.
What is a play?
A play is a single move you can run in Smith right now: one prompt, one result. Each is tagged by effort so you can pick the quick wins first. Plays are grouped into 11 categories; this article is one of them. For multi-step workflows that combine several moves, see the Recipes.
Several plays here build a persona. The ready-made personas and the 2-minute quickstart all live in The Persona Builder Kit. Build them there, then use them in the plays below.
The Plays
Each card is one play. The badge shows the effort: Quick is a single prompt, Few steps adds a little setup, and Setup is a build-once move that pays off repeatedly.
Do: In any chat, paste 3 to 5 emails you are proud of: "describe my writing style as a short profile I can reuse." Then create the persona with the 2-minute quickstart (Persona Builder Kit above) and paste that profile into the Persona Primary Goal field.
Get: Every draft sounds like you; the style lives in the persona, no re-pasting samples
PersonasDo: In a chat, dump your resume, role, org chart, key relationships, motivations, and goals. Ask Smith to synthesize a structured "About Me" profile. Save the output to a Me folder in your workspace.
Get: Smith answers with your context baked in, every time
Workspace + ConversationsDo: Use the 2-minute quickstart with Primary Goal: "Compress anything I give you. Lead with the answer, then at most three bullets. Never pad." Full field text and a paste block are in the Persona Builder Kit.
Get: A one-click compressor you can point at any wall of text
PersonasDo: Use the 2-minute quickstart with Primary Goal: "Pressure-test whatever I share. Find the weakest points, what could go wrong, and what I am missing. Be direct." Full version in the Persona Builder Kit.
Get: A private pressure-test before anything important ships
PersonasDo: Use the 2-minute quickstart with Primary Goal: "Ask me a few short questions about what I am trying to do, then write me a strong, ready-to-use prompt." Then select it, dump raw context on it, and paste the prompt it writes into a fresh chat. Full version in the Persona Builder Kit.
Get: You never face a blank prompt box again
PersonasDo: Open ONE chat and keep coming back to that same chat as your routine log (chat renaming is coming soon; until then, just keep the tab handy or pin it). Every time you do a recurring task, log it there: "Add this, I build a sales recap every Monday, output is an email." After a few weeks you have a complete record of your repeatable work. Then ask Smith to export it to a file and upload that to your Me folder.
Get: A living map of everything you do regularly, the raw material for automating your job, and a file you can query ("what do I do on Mondays?")
Conversations + WorkspaceDo: When a chat produces something valuable, export it to Word/PDF and upload it back into a workspace folder. Now future chats can reference it as a source.
Get: Your best thinking becomes reusable, searchable knowledge instead of getting buried in chat history
Conversations + WorkspaceDo: Create one folder per project or client, drop related docs in, name them clearly. Then select just that folder when you query.
Get: Answers grounded in exactly the right context, nothing irrelevant
WorkspaceDo: Take one prompt, "give me 5 names for a new product line." Run it once on Low Temperature, once on High . Low gives safe, predictable options; High gives bold, unexpected ones. Now you know which setting to use when.
Get: A feel for when to use precise (Low) vs. creative (High), so you set it on purpose, not by accident
Settings (Temperature)Do: When a prompt works well, save it to the Prompt Library for reuse (creating and sharing your own prompts is coming soon).
Get: A growing shelf of one-click power prompts
Prompt LibraryDo: Create shared personas for recurring roles (Analyst, Client Comms, Editor) so the whole team works from the same definitions.
Get: Consistent output across everyone, not ten different styles
Personas (shared)See It in Action
Here is one of these plays running, so you know what to expect before you try it yourself.
Your Me file, working
Once your Me file exists, Smith answers with your context already built in, no re-explaining who you are.
Next Steps: Pick one Quick play and run it today. When single moves feel natural, the Recipes show how to chain them into repeatable workflows. Working through your first month? The First 30 Days plan tells you which plays to use each week.
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