Good AI output starts with a good prompt. Most people retype the same prompts forever.
Znote 4.2 ships slash prompts: reusable AI commands you invoke from chat or on a selection. Type / and pick one. Every prompt is customizable — you can override the built-ins with your own version.
The built-ins
/rewrite — Rewrite the note (or a selection) based on your conversation with the AI. The workhorse: it's how chat output becomes clean notes instead of transcript sprawl.
/edit — Targeted edits on a selection. Fix, tighten, restructure — surgically.
/clarify — Instead of answering, the AI asks you questions. Perfect when your idea is fuzzy and what you need isn't an answer but better questions.
/brainstorm — Opens the problem up. Alternatives, angles you didn't consider, questions that widen the space before you narrow it.
/specify — Turn an idea into a specification. This one comes straight from the Spec Kit spec-driven development workflow.
Spec-driven development, in your vault
If you use Claude Code or another coding agent, you already know the pattern: the quality of what the agent builds is capped by the quality of the spec you hand it. Spec Kit formalized this — /specify, /clarify, /plan — but it lives in your terminal, attached to one repo.
Znote brings that workflow into your notes, where specs actually get thought through. Start with a rough idea, /brainstorm to open it up, /clarify to close the gaps, /specify to shape it into something an agent — or a colleague — can execute. Each step lands in a Markdown note in your vault: linkable, versionable, reusable across projects.
Your notes stop being where ideas go to sit, and start being where they get sharpened into specs.
Override everything
Don't like how /rewrite behaves? Override it. Your team has a house style for specs? Encode it in your own /specify. Prompts are yours to shape — which is exactly how it should be in a local-first tool.
Znote is a local-first Markdown editor with executable code blocks and AI grounded in your notes. Opens Obsidian vaults natively.