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Claude drafts a one-minute toast and two openings from your stories, then revises once. You check and edit.
Gather and label stories
Draft toast and openings
Check against the stories
Revise with your corrections
Read aloud and choose
Use: You
Have ready: your memories, the occasion and the audience. Label each story S1, S2... and note what you would never say aloud.
Check each story is one you actually remember, not half-heard, and could not embarrass anyone.
Use: Claude
Ask Claude for a one-minute toast and two alternative openings using only the supplied stories, with story labels cited.
What to paste into the tool
Task: A main toast draft, two alternative openings, and a "left out" list of unused stories. Draft a warm toast of about one minute when read aloud for a family celebration, using only the stories and facts supplied below. Also draft two alternative openings, each one or two sentences and genuinely different in tone. Cite the story label behind every story or fact you use. List any supplied stories you did not use under 'left out'. Keep it kind: no teasing about sensitive topics, no private details, nothing embarrassing. Do not invent anecdotes, dates, names, quotes or qualities. If the stories are too thin for a full minute, say so instead of padding. Inputs: [paste the checked story collection] [state the occasion] [describe the audience in general terms].
Use: You
Check every line of the draft against your story collection before revising.
Check every story and fact against what you supplied; remove anything added or twisted. Time it by reading aloud.
Use: Claude
Ask Claude for one revision pass that applies only your corrections, then edit the result into your own words.
What to paste into the tool
Task: A revised toast with both alternative openings and the unchanged unused-story list, which you then edit line by line into your own words. Revise this toast applying only the corrections listed below. Keep it about one minute when read aloud, keep the kind tone, keep using only the supplied stories, and cite story labels. Do not add new stories, facts or jokes. Return the revised toast, both alternative openings (revised only where a correction affects them), and the unused-story list unchanged. Inputs: [paste the checked draft from step 3: the toast, both alternative openings with their story labels, and the unused-story list] [paste your list of corrections].
Use: You
Read the final toast aloud, time it, and settle on one opening.
Time the read-aloud and trim. Check every story traces to your collection, both openings are saved and nothing sensitive survived.
You jot stories as they come. ChatGPT shapes them into labelled notes, then drafts from confirmed notes only.
Jot your stories
Shape into labelled notes
Confirm each note
Draft from confirmed notes
Check, edit, read aloud
Use: You
Your stories and facts as you remember them, plus a never-say list.
Mark any story you would never want said aloud.
Use: ChatGPT
Ask ChatGPT to shape your jottings into notes S1, S2 and so on, each with a proposed safe-to-say flag and reason.
What to paste into the tool
Task: turn my jottings into short structured story notes, nothing else. For each story or fact, write a note labelled S1, S2 and so on: a few lines covering what happened and why it matters, plus a proposed 'safe to say?' flag (safe or sensitive) with a one-line reason. Use only what I wrote; do not add details, dates or names. Do not draft the toast. Jottings: [paste your checked jottings].
Use: You
Compare each note with what you genuinely remember and confirm or correct its safe-to-say flag.
Compare each note with what you genuinely remember. Be honest on the safe-to-say flags; hold back anything sensitive.
Use: ChatGPT
Ask ChatGPT for the toast and two openings using only the confirmed notes, with labels cited and a 'left out' list.
What to paste into the tool
Task: A main draft, two alternative openings, story labels cited, and a 'left out' list. Using only these story notes, draft a warm toast of about one minute when read aloud, plus two alternative openings of one or two sentences each, different in tone. Cite the note label behind every story or fact. List unused notes under 'left out'. Keep it kind; use only notes flagged safe to say. Do not invent anecdotes, dates, names, quotes or qualities. If the notes are too thin for a minute, say so instead of padding. Inputs: [paste the confirmed story notes] [state the occasion] [describe the audience in general terms].
Use: You
Check the draft against your notes, edit into your own voice, choose an opening and do the final timed read.
Check every story against your notes; remove anything added or sensitive. Edit into your voice and time the read-aloud.
You write the toast yourself. Gemini only offers two alternative openings. You choose, edit and finalise.
Gather your stories
Write your own draft
Offer two openings
Choose, edit, finalise
Use: You
Have ready: your stories and facts you want to use, and marks on anything never to say.
Mark anything you would never want said aloud.
Use: You
Write the toast yourself, about one minute, from your story list, noting which stories you did not use.
Check every story is real and safe to say. Read aloud with a timer and trim.
Use: Gemini
Ask Gemini only to offer two alternative openings for your draft, without changing the body.
What to paste into the tool
Task: Two alternative openings, each one or two sentences. Here is a toast I wrote myself. Do not change the body. Offer two alternative openings, each one or two sentences, genuinely different in tone, that fit the body and the occasion I state. Use only facts already in my draft; do not invent stories, names, quotes or details, and do not add jokes about anyone. Inputs: [paste the checked draft] [state the occasion in general terms].
Use: You
Accept, adapt or reject the openings, edit everything into your voice, and do the final timed read.
Check the opening fits, both openings are saved, every fact is yours and the read-aloud runs about a minute.
Best when: You have a checked story collection ready
What it does: Claude drafts and revises; you check and edit
Strong at: A correction pass is checked before the timed reading
Limit: You check two passes and edit the voice yourself
Free plan: Yes, limited (usage caps)
Best when: You prefer to jot stories as they come
What it does: ChatGPT structures notes, then drafts; you confirm flags
Strong at: Only notes you confirmed safe reach drafting
Limit: A safe-to-say flag can be wrong; you still catch it
Free plan: Yes, limited
Best when: You want to write the toast yourself
What it does: You write; Gemini offers two openings only
Strong at: The body stays in your own words
Limit: Writing, story selection and timing stay with you
Free plan: Yes, limited (prompt caps)
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Trace every result to the supplied original or checked source label; leave missing or conflicting facts visible.
Every story and fact in the toast matches what you supplied, the toast reads at about one minute aloud when you time it, two genuinely different openings are saved, and you have edited the final words to sound like yourself.
Check the result against your original inputs. Approve it before sharing or acting.