Yesterday a developer shipped a prompt recall tool for Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. The twist? They built the smallest version possible on purpose.
That constraint is the whole story. The AI tools space right now is full of builders who think more features equal more value. More integrations. More sync layers. More settings menus you’ll configure once and never touch again. This developer looked at that pattern and went the other direction. The goal wasn’t to build the best prompt manager. It was to build the one you’d actually use without thinking about it.
Most prompt managers make you do more work. Folders. Sync. An account. A separate app to switch to mid-thought. This one skips all of that.
Think about what that friction actually costs you. You’re three sentences into a prompt, you remember you have a structured format saved somewhere, and now you’re opening a different tab, scanning a list, copying text, switching back, and trying to remember where your train of thought was. That’s not a small interruption. That’s enough to break the flow completely. Most people don’t bother retrieving the saved prompt. They just rewrite it from scratch again, which is exactly what they were trying to avoid.
It’s 30kb. Stores locally. Free forever. And it lives right inside the input box where you’re already typing.
The 30kb number is worth pausing on. That’s smaller than most favicon files. There’s nothing to install, nothing to configure, no server making calls on your behalf, no account sending your prompts anywhere. Everything stays on your machine, which also means it works offline and there’s no subscription to cancel when they decide to charge for the tier you’re using. The local storage approach also means your prompts are still there the next time you open a browser, no sign-in required.
Here’s how it works:
- 🖱️ Highlight any text in your AI chat. Click to clip it. The extension grabs the selected text and stores it locally in under a second. No naming required, no folder to assign it to. It captures exactly what you highlighted.
- Go back to any AI chat window, any time. This works across Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, so you can clip a prompt from one and use it in another. Session doesn’t matter. Browser restart doesn’t matter.
- ⌨️ Type
//in the input field. That double slash is the entire trigger. No toolbar button, no right-click menu, no switching context to a different panel. You type it right where the cursor already is. - A picker appears inline, right where your cursor is. No app switch. You get a small search box that filters your saved prompts in real time as you type. If you saved a code review checklist, you can type “review” and it surfaces immediately.
- ✅ Find your prompt, press Enter. Back to work. The text drops directly into the input field, fully editable, ready to go. Nothing to paste, nothing to reformat.
Zero friction between the thought and the output.
That sentence sounds like marketing but it’s a real description of what happens. The entire retrieval process takes maybe three seconds if you’re being slow about it. Compare that to the average tab-switch-find-copy-switch-back workflow and you’re looking at a 10x difference in time, and more importantly, a near-zero interruption to what you were actually thinking about.
Pro tip: The highest-leverage use isn’t saving clever one-liners. It’s the long structured formats you rewrite from scratch every session. Code review checklists. Structured output templates. Anything you’ve copy-pasted more than twice. Those are the ones worth clipping first.
Specifically: persona definitions you use to set tone (“you are a senior engineer who values clarity over cleverness”), output format specs that require a specific JSON shape or table structure, multi-step reasoning scaffolds, and any prompt that has more than two conditional branches in it. These are the formats where rewriting from memory introduces subtle drift every time. The version you wrote on a good day is better than the version you reconstruct under time pressure. Save the good one.
💡 Treat it like a // shortcut library, not a vault for every prompt you’ve ever written. Keep it lean and it stays fast. Start adding 200 prompts and you’ve rebuilt the problem you were trying to escape.
A good rule of thumb: if you haven’t reached for a prompt in two weeks, delete it. The value of this tool comes from fast recall of things you actually use, not from having a complete archive. Curate aggressively. Ten prompts you reach for daily beat a hundred you saved just in case. When you clip something new, ask yourself honestly whether you’ve used a version of this at least three times in the last month. If not, skip it.
The developer is still in early days and actively collecting feedback on which prompts people actually reach for. If you’ve been manually pasting the same prompts into Claude or ChatGPT week after week, this is worth five minutes of your time. 🚀
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Does this increase my token consumption?
No. The tool stores and retrieves your prompts locally before you send them to the AI. You only use tokens for the actual content of your message, the recall process itself adds no overhead.
Q: What should I save as a prompt?
Anything you paste more than twice. Great examples: structured output formats (JSON templates, markdown layouts), code review checklists, system prompts, and frameworks you reuse across conversations.
Q: Can I use saved prompts across different conversations?
Yes. Everything stores locally on your device, so your entire prompt library is available in any new conversation with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or whichever AI you’re using.
Q: Does it slow down longer conversations?
No. The tool is only 30kb and runs entirely on your device. Searching and retrieving prompts is instant, even with a large library saved.
Built a // prompt recall tool for Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini. Deliberately minimal. Free forever.
by u/Decent_Educator_162 in PromptEngineering