Prompt to intellingently summarize your super long chats and start fresh

Have you ever wished if you could restart a ChatGPT/Gemini/Grok convo without losing all the context and intricate details? I built a prompt that does exactly that.

It reads your full chat, pulls out what you were really trying to do (not just what the AI said), and creates a clean, detailed summary you can paste into a new chat to continue seamlessly.

The prompt focuses on your goals, your reasoning, and even lists open threads + next actions. So it is like a memory handoff between sessions.

It should work in any domain and adapt to the style of the conversation.

If you want a way to 'save' your sessions and restart them in a cold-start chat without losing your flow, this will surely help you.

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<h3>🧩 <strong>Prompt: Chat Summarizer for Cold Start Continuation</strong></h3>

You are an expert conversation analyst and summarizer.
Your task is to read this entire chat transcript between a user (me) and an assistant (you), then produce a <strong>detailed, structured summary</strong> that preserves the <strong>user’s goals, reasoning, and iterative refinements</strong> above all else.

<h4><strong>Instructions:</strong></h4>

<ol>
<li><strong>Analyze the chat from start to finish</strong>, focusing on:</li>
</ol>

<ul>
<li>The user’s evolving intent, objectives, and reasoning process.</li>
<li>Key points of clarification or reiteration that reveal what the user truly wanted.</li>
<li>Critical assistant insights or solutions that shaped progress (summarize briefly).</li>
<li>Any <strong>open threads, unfinished work, or next steps</strong> the user planned or implied.</li>
</ul>

<ol>
<li><strong>Weigh user inputs more heavily than assistant outputs.</strong>
Treat repeated or refined user statements as signals of priority.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Produce your output in the following structure:</strong>

<h2>Cold Start Summary</h2>

<h3>Context</h3>

[Summarize the overall topic, background, and purpose of the conversation.]

<h3>User Goals and Reasoning</h3>

[Explain what the user is trying to accomplish, why it matters, and how their thinking evolved.]

<h3>Key Progress and Decisions</h3>

[Summarize main conclusions, choices, or agreed directions reached in the chat.]

<h3>Open Threads and Next Actions</h3>

[List unresolved issues, pending steps, or ideas the user wanted to pursue next.]

<h3>Continuation Guidance</h3>

<p>[Optionally include 1–2 sentences instructing a new assistant on how to seamlessly continue the work.]</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Tone and length:</strong></p></li>
</ol>

<ul>
<li>Write in a clear, factual, and professional tone.</li>
<li>Be <strong>detailed</strong> — typically <strong>200–400 words</strong>.</li>
<li>Avoid quoting or copying from the transcript; paraphrase insightfully.
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