Repurposing was my biggest time sink until I built this. One long post now fuels a whole week.
The workflow
- Drop your published article into ChatGPT
- Ask for 5 LinkedIn hooks and 5 short X posts
- Have it map each to a day of the week
- Tweak the voice, then schedule
Result: A full week of posts from content you already wrote.
The prompt
Turn this article into a 7 day content calendar. For each day give a platform, a hook, and a 2 line body. Keep my voice punchy and specific. Article:
[PASTE]A note on what follows. The workflow, the prompt and the result above come from the member. The notes below (why the prompt works, what to watch for, how to adapt it) were written with AI help.
Why this prompt works
Asking for a platform per day is what stops seven versions of the same post. Give it a week with no platform and you get the same paragraph reformatted, which is exactly what makes a feed look automated. Two lines of body is a deliberate ceiling. I want a starting point I will rewrite, not a finished post I am tempted to publish as is, and the difference between those two is about forty words. "Keep my voice punchy and specific" barely works on its own, I will be honest. What works is pasting three of my own posts underneath and asking it to match those. Voice instructions in the abstract produce what the model thinks punchy means, which is short sentences and no substance.
What to watch for
- Day 6 and 7 are always the weakest. A single article does not contain seven ideas, and it will not tell you that.
- Platform conventions get ignored. The LinkedIn post and the X post come back nearly identical.
- The strongest idea from the article usually lands on day 3 or 4, buried. I reorder every time.
- It repeats the article's own phrasing across several days, so the week reads like a loop to anyone following you in two places.
How to adapt it
- Let it be honest about depth:
If the article only supports 4 posts, give me 4. - Front-load the best material:
Order by strength of idea, not by the order they appear in the article. - For real voice matching, paste your own posts and add
Match these three examples, including how I open and close.
What good output looks like
Seven hooks that do not sound like siblings. I read the hooks alone, in order, and if three could be swapped without anyone noticing then the week is padded and I cut it to four days. Each entry should give me something to react to, a claim or a number, rather than a topic. Entries that just name a subject are the ones I end up writing from scratch anyway.