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Travis Sparks's avatar

This resonates, Alex.

I'm early in my Substack journey but already seeing how easy it is to lose track of what I've written. Your point about "flying blind = content chaos" hits - I've caught myself almost repeating the same AI insight twice in one week.

The 20-minute turnaround from yesterday's post to today's is impressive. Shows the power of having a systematic approach rather than staring at a blank page every time.

Question: Do you find the AI-generated follow-ups maintain your voice consistently, or do you need to do significant editing to make them sound like you?

Appreciate you sharing the actual workflow instead of just the theory.

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Alex McFarland's avatar

I used to catch myself doing the same, Travis. Since implementing this system, I've become a lot more organized and effective.

As for your question, they consistently maintain my voice. This is because of how I set up my project knowledge and prompting (I use ChatGPT projects). I put as many guardrails and guidelines on the AI, and provide as much context as possible. Besides that, I always work in the same chat going from one to another, so no need to start from scratch.

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Adriatic's avatar

Very astute observations and very cool tools. Impressive.

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