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Checklist to Evaluate Technical Documentation Software

Identifying the right technical documentation software for your department can be overwhelming. To address this, the following checklist identifies some of the key criteria to consider when selecting technical documentation aka tech authoring software. The list is not exhaustive, but should give you a starting point to assess the products.

11 More Chat-GPT Prompt Writing Tips for Technical Summaries

If you’ve followed the previous steps, you should good technical summary. You should have saved a considerable amount of time, especially if you fed Chat-GPT with material from different documents, spreadsheets, and notes. I suspect doing this by hand would take considerably longer.
Here are some other ways you can get Chat-GPT to improve the quality of the summary.

How to Write CHAT-GPT Prompts to Create Technical Summaries

Let’s now look at how to write the actual prompt to summarize the text.
After you’ve uploaded the material to Chat-GPT/Claude/Poe, you must write a prompt (actually a series of prompts as can refine the summary results as you progress).
The simplest way to do this is to ask Chat-GPT how to create summaries, which is what I did.