Thinking about scheduling a task in codex to doodle my day or week as a way of auto journaling, this was a test prompt I used and thought I would share it. Probably works best with a paid GPT sub.
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Create a highly realistic photograph of a classic spiral-bound notebook lying open on a desk, focused on a single lined page that has been completely filled over time with handwritten doodles, sketches, quotes, stray thoughts, little diagrams, symbols, inside jokes, half-finished ideas, arrows, boxed notes, crossed-out words, tiny illustrations, and spontaneous margin scribbles. The content of the page is the most important part: use everything you genuinely know about me from our conversations, saved memory, recurring interests, work, hobbies, creative projects, personality, sense of humor, things I obsess over, questions I repeatedly explore, ideas I have built, phrases or themes associated with me, and any unusual connections you have noticed, then translate that understanding into what I might naturally have doodled and written in this notebook. Do not simply make a list of facts about me and do not explain who I am; make the page feel subconscious, personal, chaotic, clever, occasionally funny, technically detailed in places, artistic in others, and full of small discoveries that reward looking closely. Mix handwriting sizes and styles, rough pen sketches, circled thoughts, arrows connecting unrelated ideas, tiny annotations, repeated motifs, scratched-out mistakes, and a few surprisingly thoughtful or cryptic lines. Make every visible element feel specific to me rather than generic filler. The notebook and ink should look physically real, imperfect and tactile, with natural paper texture, slight page curl, believable pen pressure and ink variation, subtle desk lighting and shadows, photographed like a real notebook someone has actually been carrying around and filling with pieces of their mind. No title, no introductory explanation, no generic inspirational filler, and do not write that the content was generated "based on what you know about me." Just show the page as though it already existed.
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Do not include work related content.