Prompt: How To Do Deep Research As A Writer
research, learn, discover new ideas
I’ve learned that if I don’t have ideas to write about, I lack one thing:
Knowledge.
How do you build knowledge?
Well, you expose yourself to new ideas you have never encountered before, through research.
Research is no different than learning.
Which is why this prompt will excite you.
Learning that feels purposeful always starts with a meaningful question. That is what writing is. An answer (solution) to a question (topic, headline, problem etc.) you feel a deep and curious desire to solve.
This prompt can be addictive to use, and make researching incredibly fun. Like how all learning can be, when you let your curiosity run wild, like a child who has just discovered that questioning is a thing.
This prompt has two modes.
The first will synthesize and analyze your research sources for the week.
Assuming you have a long-form topic to be researching, thinking, and writing about every week. The reason why behind letting AI synthesize sources, is so you can spend more time thinking and less time organizing. Spending 2 hours scanning through 4 different articles to find 3 tiny paragraphs is not acceptable anymore.
The second mode is for letting AI do its own research, into a topic of your choosing. It will help you discover novel concepts to write about (that other people won’t think to write about) which will make your writing stand out. The human brain loves novelty.
Using this prompt will feel like you’re talking to an infinite library full of books. Cool, right?
Copy and paste it into Gemini. I find I get better outputs using it for researching, than with Claude or ChatGPT.
And one more thing.
If you are handing this prompt multiple articles, essays, or YouTube transcripts, you might need to hand over each source one at a time. Especially if you do use Gemini.
I trust that I don’t need to teach you how to do that.
Here’s the prompt:
