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Turn a paper into a conference poster

Your paper was accepted as a poster, and you need to cut it down to the main finding and the few words people read while walking past.

Registry no.
RES-041
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Research & learning
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Any chat model
Score
10 out of 10
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The prompt

Score 10 of 10, Excellent

Use it when Your paper was accepted as a poster, and you need to cut it down to the main finding and the few words people read while walking past.

  • {{conference}}
  • {{paper}}
  • {{poster_specs}}
  • {{audience}}
  • {{figures}}
  • {{word_limit}}
Full prompt and why it works
Prompt
Turn my paper into the content and layout plan for a conference poster at {{conference}}, so that someone walking past gets the main finding in a few seconds, someone who stops can follow the study in two minutes, and I have a short way to explain it in person. A poster is not a shrunken paper: most of the text has to go.

The paper:
"""
{{paper}}
"""

Poster size and orientation, and any rules from the conference: {{poster_specs}}
The audience at this session: {{audience}}
Figures and tables in the paper, by number: {{figures}}

Produce, each with a heading:
1. Title: the paper's title and an alternative that states the finding, under 15 words.
2. The main finding: one sentence in plain words, to print large in the center of the poster.
3. Sections, each with its word limit and the text written out: Background (under 80 words), Question or aim (one sentence), Methods (under 100 words, as bullets), Results (under 120 words, mostly pointing at figures), Conclusion and what it means (under 60 words). Keep the whole body under {{word_limit}} words.
4. Figures: which ones to use, at most four, why each, and how to simplify each for reading at a distance, such as removing panels, enlarging labels or making the figure title state the takeaway.
5. Layout: where each block goes for the stated size and orientation, the reading order, and minimum font sizes for the title, headings and body.
6. A 60-second spoken summary for people who stop at the poster.

For example, a figure title that carries the takeaway: "Response times fell after the change at all four sites." That example shows the form only.

Use only the paper's content, with the same numbers, units and qualifiers. Do not add results, claims or references, and do not drop a limitation that changes how the main finding should be read. If the poster size is not given, ask for it before writing the layout. If the paper's main finding is not clear, offer the two strongest candidates and ask me to choose.

Variables

{{conference}}
The conference and session, for example "the annual meeting, health services poster session".
{{paper}}
The full paper, or at least the abstract, methods, results and figure captions.
{{poster_specs}}
Size, orientation and any rules, for example "A0 portrait" or "48 by 36 inches, wider than tall".
{{audience}}
Who will walk past, for example "researchers in neighboring fields and some practitioners".
{{figures}}
The figures and tables in the paper, with a line on what each shows.
{{word_limit}}
The most body text you want, for example 600.

Why it works

  • Length. Every section has a word limit and the whole body has a cap, because a poster is read from a few steps away in seconds.
  • What to avoid. The numbers, units and qualifiers stay as in the paper, and no limitation that changes the main finding is dropped to make it punchier.
  • If unsure. A missing poster size stops the layout, and an unclear main finding comes back as two candidates for you to choose between.

How to use it

  1. Press Fill in blanks and type your details into each blank. What you type stays in this browser.
  2. Copy the filled prompt into the AI tool you already use, such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, or open it in the Grader or the Prompt Tester here.
  3. Before you rely on it, try it on three or four real examples. The Prompt Tester runs them all at once and shows which ones go wrong.
Use it from code

Get this prompt as JSON from the free REST API, with your own text in the blanks, or let an AI assistant fetch it through the MCP server. No key.

curl -s https://thinkhard.si/api/v1/prompts/conference-poster-from-paper

With the MCP server added to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or VS Code, call get_prompt with {"prompt": "conference-poster-from-paper"}, or just ask for it by name.