Outline from a brain dump

Paste your scattered thoughts. Get a structure, the missing pieces, and the first sentence.

Articles, talks, proposals, anything where you have material but no shape.outlinestructurewriting

Turn my brain dump into an outline.

Everything I have (notes, fragments, quotes, half-ideas, in any order): <paste>
What I'm writing: <article / talk / proposal / post> for <audience>
What I want the reader to think or do at the end: <one line>
Length: <words or minutes>

Produce:
1. The one sentence this piece is really about. If my material points to two different pieces, say so.
2. An outline: sections with working titles, and under each the fragments from my dump that belong there (quote them). Order for the reader, not for how I thought of them.
3. What's missing: the points the outline needs that my dump doesn't have yet: evidence, an example, a counter-view, a definition.
4. What to cut: fragments that don't serve the one sentence, with a line on why.
5. The opening: 3 options for the first sentence, none of them a question or a dictionary definition.
6. The close: what the last paragraph must do, in one line.

Use my words. Don't write the piece; give me the shape and the gaps.

Replace every <placeholder> with your own details before you send it.

How to use it

1Dump everything, including half-thoughts. Order and quality are the model's job here.
2The 'what's missing' list is a research plan. Do it before you write.
3Ask for two different structures if the first one feels forced.

Reviewed 2026-09-20

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