How to Write Better AI Prompts
JotPsych's note editor and template builder both run on plain English. What to say, and where to say it, to get the note you actually want.
Head of Growth and Operations, JotPsych
JotPsych gives you two places to change how your notes read. One changes a single note. The other changes every note a template produces from now on. Both take the same kind of instruction: a plain English sentence describing the change, typed into a chat box. No command list to memorize.
The first is the AI Note Editor, the sidebar on the right side of an open note. Open a note, click the Edit tab, and type what you want changed: "Make the HPI shorter," for instance, where HPI stands for history of present illness, the section describing how the patient's symptoms developed. JotPsych reads the note, changes the section you named, and shows you the result. A change to one section applies right away. A change that touches several sections shows a review banner first, with an Approve button and a Reject button, before anything is final. Leave the banner alone and the change still goes through. Click Reject if it is not what you meant.
One phrase in that same instruction decides how long the change lasts. Type only what you want changed and JotPsych edits this note and stops there. Add "and remember for all future notes," or start the sentence with "always," and JotPsych keeps applying it going forward. "Change 'pt' to 'patient' everywhere" fixes the note in front of you. "Always bold medication changes in both the Medications and Plan sections" becomes a standing rule for every note after it. Same box, same sentence. The words decide whether it is a one-time fix or a standing rule.
The second place is the Template Builder, reached from any template by clicking "Edit with AI." A template is the list of sections JotPsych fills in every time it writes a note from it: Chief Complaint, Medications, Assessment, Plan, and so on. You talk to the Template Builder the same way you talk to the Note Editor. "Add a section for patient history." "Rename the first section to 'Chief Complaint.'" "Add an example output for the assessment section." Where the Note Editor changes what is already on the page, the Template Builder changes the page itself. Every note built from that template afterward starts from the new structure.
A JotPsych note is not one block of text to instruct as a whole. The template behind a full psychiatric intake carries nineteen named sections. Ten cover the patient's history, five cover clinical assessment, and four cover the plan and the paperwork that follows the visit: 53%, 26%, and 21%. Naming the one you mean, HPI, Assessment, Plan, Medications, is what turns a vague instruction into a specific one.
- 1AI Note Editor: type the change, and this note updates
- 2Same box: add "always" or "remember for all future notes" and it becomes a standing rule
- 3Template Builder: click "Edit with AI" and every later note from that template changes
- 4Say the section by name: HPI, mental status exam, plan
The two places JotPsych takes a plain English instruction, and the phrase that decides whether an edit lasts past this note. Source: JotPsych product documentation, note editor and template builder. An instruction typed without that phrase fixes the note in front of you and stops there, so a habit you want on every note goes in once, in the template.
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The habit worth building: name the section, and say out loud whether the change is for this note or for good. "Shorten the HPI" beats "make this better." "Always bold medication changes" beats leaving it to chance.
Open your next note, click the Edit tab, and give JotPsych one specific instruction instead of a vague one.
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