Turn my trip notes and photos into a travel journal
A warm, readable travel journal or photo-book story built from your notes, with day-by-day entries and captions in your own voice.
The prompt
Help me turn my trip notes into a travel journal.
Trip: [WHERE, WHEN, WHO with]
My notes (paste them, messy is fine): [NOTES - day by day if possible: places, meals, funny moments, conversations, feelings]
Photos I want to include (describe them): [e.g. "sunrise from the ferry", "kids covered in gelato"]
Who it's for: [just me / family keepsake / a photo book / to share with friends]
Tone: [e.g. funny, reflective, cozy, adventurous]
Length: [e.g. one page per day / a 1,000-word story / captions only]
Rules:
- Use only the details I've given you. Do not invent events, people, or facts about places. If a day feels thin, add [ADD A MEMORY HERE] rather than making something up.
- Write in first person in my voice, using my own phrases where they're good.
- Capture senses and small moments, not just a list of sights.
- Keep private details out if it's for sharing; flag anything that might embarrass someone.
Return:
1. A title for the journal and a short opening paragraph.
2. Day-by-day entries with a heading for each day.
3. A short caption for each photo I described.
4. A closing reflection: what this trip meant, and one thing to remember next time.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- WHERE, WHEN, WHO with
- e.g. "sunrise from the ferry", "kids covered in gelato"
- e.g. funny, reflective, cozy, adventurous
- e.g. one page per day / a 1,000-word story / captions only
- ADD A MEMORY HERE
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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