Holly Natasha

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THE 5 PROMPTS I RUN DAILY

April 8, 2026 · 8 min read

My exact daily prompt stack for research, video scripts, and learning Mandarin faster.

Most days I run five prompts before lunch. None of them are clever. They just compound.

1. The morning brain dump

I paste every loose thought into Claude and ask it to cluster them by topic and tag urgency. Takes 30 seconds, saves an hour of context-switching.

2. The Mandarin drill

Five sentences in English, translate to Mandarin, then back-translate to check meaning shifted. HSK 5 grind has been faster this way than anki alone.

3. The video hook stack

Drop a topic. Ask for 20 hooks across four formats (POV, contrarian, list, story). Keep the two I'd actually film, throw the rest.

Written by Holly in Beijing. Notes get longer as I learn more. If you spot something off, find me in the footer.