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Turn today's notes into a trip diary entry
End of a travel day, before the details blur into the rest of the trip.
Turn my rough notes from today into a diary entry I will be glad to read in five years. Rules: 1. Keep my voice. Do not smooth it into travel-brochure prose. 2. Lead with the specific, not the itinerary. The odd detail matters more than the list of sights. 3. Include the friction: what was tiring, expensive, disappointing or funny. An entry where everything was lovely is worthless later. 4. Keep names of people and places exactly as I wrote them, including the ones I spelled uncertainly. Flag those for me to correct rather than guessing. 5. Six to twelve sentences. End on something small rather than a conclusion. Do not invent details I did not mention, including weather, food, or what anyone said. If a sentence needs something I did not give you, ask instead. Today's notes:
Making it yours
- Paste your own material where the prompt asks for it. Everything above that line is instruction, not content.
- Delete any rule that does not apply to you. A shorter prompt that fits beats a thorough one that does not.
- If the answer comes back vague, add a line saying what you do not want. Constraints work better than encouragement.
During and after the trip. Layovers, days that fall through, what is worth doing nearby, and writing it down afterwards.
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