GPT Cookbook | Quick Table of Contents (Hierarchical Summary)

Mike with Tango Reef
2 min readSep 17, 2023

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Whether you work in Healthcare, Law, Information Technology, Automotive, Educational, or simply someone who loves playing around with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, enhancing your output for the most readability is a must.

Let me introduce a neat Prompt Hack for GPT Models with OpenAI: du and tree. These commands are indispensable to explore directories in a Linux, or Windows environment. The file and folder structures are displayed.

tree /f command in PowerShell

The best way to display this structure with the GPT output is to simply ask the following:

“Display the output in the PowerShell `tree /f` structure”

Or you could ask

“Display the output using the Unix `du -a` structure”

Brilliant summaries will appear for whatever your heart desires. Enjoy!

Example:

How do I start an organization? Display the output using the Unix `du -a` structure.

Starting an Organization: A Step-By-Step Guide in du -a Format

Introduction

Starting an organization is an intricate process that involves a myriad of steps. Each step can be considered a “file” or a “folder” in your organizational “directory.” Let’s map out the steps to start an organization, using a directory-like structure similar to the output of the du -a Unix Shell command. This hierarchical format will help you understand the steps and sub-steps needed to successfully launch an organization.

Directory Structure for Starting an Organization

|-- Starting_Organization
|-- 1_Research
| |-- 1.1_Market_Research
| |-- 1.2_Competitive_Analysis
| `-- 1.3_Organization_Type
|-- 2_Business_Plan
| |-- 2.1_Executive_Summary
| |-- 2.2_Mission_Statement
| |-- 2.3_Financial_Plan
| `-- 2.4_Operational_Plan
|-- 3_Funding
| |-- 3.1_Bootstrapping
| |-- 3.2_Investors
| `-- 3.3_Grants_and_Loans
|-- 4_Legal_Structure
| |-- 4.1_Business_Type
| |-- 4.2_Register_Name
| |-- 4.3_Licenses_and_Permits
| `-- 4.4_Tax_ID
|-- 5_Team
| |-- 5.1_Co-founders
| |-- 5.2_Advisors
| `-- 5.3_Hiring
`-- 6_Launch
|-- 6.1_Website
|-- 6.2_Marketing
`-- 6.3_Grand_Opening

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