Updated my idea after talking to marketers – was I solving the wrong problem?

Last week I posted asking how people save ChatGPT/Claude prompts.

Got some interesting feedback. Most people said they use Google Docs or Notion, which I expected.

But here's what I didn't expect: **the problem isn't really about storage.**

One person (CRO at an ecommerce company) said something that hit me:

> "Saving prompts isn't the issue. The issue is that good prompts need context. A 'write ad copy' prompt for cold traffic is completely different from one for remarketing – even though they're both 'ad copy.'"

This makes SO much sense. A prompt without context (industry, audience, tone, objective) is basically useless when you try to reuse it.

**So my question:**

When you save AI prompts, do you also document:

– What industry/use case it was for?

– What audience you were targeting?

– What tone you used?

– Why it worked?

Or do you just save the prompt and hope you remember the context later?

Genuinely trying to understand if this "context problem" is universal or just specific to certain use cases.

Happy to chat if anyone wants to dig into this – building something to solve it but trying to validate first.

Thanks!

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