Creating with AI

How to generate first-draft solutions

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Written by Greg Janota
Updated over a week ago

In Skippet, you can create entire solutions with AI. Click the Create action in the top-left corner of Skippet and select First draft with AI from the menu.

Then type simply what you need in the prompt input and click the Generate button.

Skippet then displays the steps that the AI is going through to generate your solution. At any point, you can stop the generation process and regenerate a new solution starting from the same or a different prompt.

Once the AI generates your solution, the views are nested inside a summary page. Feel free to drag your views out of this page and drop them anywhere you like. You can even delete the summary page if you wish.

Note: if you delete the summary page while the views are still nested within it, you will also delete the views.

What can the AI generate?

Skippet’s AI generates solutions consisting of multiple, often interrelated, views and sample data. Depending on your prompt it can also generate automations, item conditions in permissions, or bookmarks.

You can type in prompts for whatever use cases you want—there are no limits!

Note: depending on your prompt the sample data may be purely for demonstration purposes or have inherent value. For example, the prompt “I want a CRM” will produce fake data while the prompt “Create a knowledge base of HR policies” may create entirely sensible policies.

Solutions involving multiple people

Skippet is a collaborative app so you are encouraged to try prompts that involve working with or sharing data with other people.

In these situations, the AI will usually create a new dedicated table to save the data of your collaborators rather than append it directly to the Users table. To keep this latter as lean as possible, the AI will only add a related item field to the Users table pointing to your freshly created Collaborators table.

You can then use the Collaborators table—which could get named as team members, friends, …, depending on your context—to handle your collaborators. Be aware that, when you add collaborators to the table, they will not have immediate access to your Skippet‘s workspace yet.

If you want the collaborators you added to access your Skippet’s workspace, you should add them as users to the Users table, so that they get an invitation. While adding a new user/item to the Users table, remember to pick the corresponding collaborator/item from the Collaborators table, using the dedicated related item field, so that you can relate the two.

You can also leverage the power of the related item field to fill in each collaborator’s details directly from the Users table.

Prompting tips

There is no set format for typing in prompts though “I want to organize…” tends to be a good starting point.

We encourage experimenting with different levels of detail in your prompts. If you want a specific view type to be created (calendar, board, map, form, …) you can mention it in the prompt.

Note: if you need inspiration, some example prompts are listed below the prompt input.

Iterating on the AI’s draft

For now, you can not use the AI to modify existing views in Skippet—except for adding new fields to the Users table. If you want to expand on the AI’s output you can:

  • generate a new solution to replace your existing one

  • generate a new solution and patch it together with your existing one manually

  • edit your existing solution manually

What’s next?

In Skippet, you can automate repetitive tasks and workflows on your data by creating automations on each view.

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