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Choose between two cars, flats or schools with a scoring table
Two good options and you keep changing your mind. Get a weighted scoring table of what matters to you, with the deal-breakers checked first.
The prompt · ChatGPT
Help me choose between a few options with a scoring table. What I'm choosing: [e.g. a used car, a flat to rent, a secondary school] The options: [name each one] What I know about each: [e.g. price, distance, condition, what I liked or didn't] Who else gets a say: [e.g. my partner, my 11-year-old] Deadline to decide: [e.g. the offer runs out Friday] Before you start, ask me up to 3 short questions if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers. Focus them on what matters most and what would rule an option out. Then: 1. Deal-breakers first: knock out any option that fails one. 2. A table of 5 to 7 things that matter, each with a weight from 1 to 3, a score from 1 to 5 for each option, and the totals. 3. Where the scores are close, say so plainly, and what would tip it. 4. Questions I still need answered before deciding (for the seller, landlord or school). 5. A one-line gut check: which one would I be disappointed not to get? Use only what I've told you, mark any score you've guessed, and leave blanks for prices or facts I haven't given. UK English. Stay in this ChatGPT chat. Do not turn on apps or connectors, and do not use memory from another chat.
A short example
Fill the blanks, then paste. e.g. a used car, a flat to rent, a secondary school: a short note you already have. name each one: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.
The prompt · Gemini
Help me choose between a few options with a scoring table. What I'm choosing: [e.g. a used car, a flat to rent, a secondary school] The options: [name each one] What I know about each: [e.g. price, distance, condition, what I liked or didn't] Who else gets a say: [e.g. my partner, my 11-year-old] Deadline to decide: [e.g. the offer runs out Friday] Before you start, ask me up to 3 short questions if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers. Focus them on what matters most and what would rule an option out. Then: 1. Deal-breakers first: knock out any option that fails one. 2. A table of 5 to 7 things that matter, each with a weight from 1 to 3, a score from 1 to 5 for each option, and the totals. 3. Where the scores are close, say so plainly, and what would tip it. 4. Questions I still need answered before deciding (for the seller, landlord or school). 5. A one-line gut check: which one would I be disappointed not to get? Use only what I've told you, mark any score you've guessed, and leave blanks for prices or facts I haven't given. UK English. Keep the scoring table as a table so I can use Export to Sheets. Stay in this Gemini chat. Leave extensions off, including Gmail and Drive.
A short example
Fill the blanks, then paste. e.g. a used car, a flat to rent, a secondary school: a short note you already have. name each one: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.
You type the options and everything you know about each one.
The assistant asks what matters most to you and what would rule an option out.
You get a weighted scoring table, the deal-breakers checked and the questions still worth asking.
What happens
Use Gemini to choose between two cars, flats or schools with a scoring table
Two good options and you keep changing your mind. Get a weighted scoring table of what matters to you, with the deal-breakers checked first.
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