> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.gists.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Gists

A gist is a prompt template that is designed to automate a repetitive task.

Let's take a look at how gists are created.

## Example

Many people use ChatGPT to draft emails with prompts like this:

```text
Write an email draft:
- Greet them
- Ask about the progress of project
- Mention that it's been late for 1 week
- Let them know that we can help and wish for some update

Be succinct, direct, but polite.
```

This prompt consists of two parts: the `instruction` part and the `content` part.

<Expandable title="Instruction" defaultOpen>
  ```text
  Write an email draft:
  {{content}}

  Be succinct, direct, but polite.
  ```
</Expandable>

<Expandable title="Content" defaultOpen>
  ```text
  - Greet them
  - Ask about the progress of project
  - Mention that it's been late for 1 week
  - Let them know that we can help and wish for some update
  ```
</Expandable>

While the contents can change case by case, the instructions for the tasks are highly reusable.

In the above example, we've just created our first gist by placing a placeholder `{{content}}` in the prompt template.

By saving this gist with a name, such as `email-draft`, next time we want to create an email draft, we can just type the outline and provide it to the gist.

To see how to run a gist, take a look at the [quick start](/quickstart) guide.

## Automatable tasks with gists

We can create gists for any of the following tasks that people automate with LLMs:

* Classification
* Information extraction
* Question answering
* Summarization
* Editing
* Brainstorming
* Translation