You’ve finished an article and want to share it on social media, but you don’t want to just post a link with “New article is up.” Yet when you ask AI to shorten the whole thing, the result often reads like a summary, missing the detail that would make someone want to keep reading.
Deciding what one thing to keep in the post makes it easier to revise than simply asking AI to “make it engaging.” If your long article has three ideas, your post can focus on just one.
First, think about who the post is for
Readers of a long article are willing to follow along, but someone scrolling past your post may not know what you’re talking about yet. What the opening often needs is the scene where it happened—not another condensed version of the conclusion.
For example, if your article is about walking and writing, you could focus on the moment when you’d been stuck on a passage for a long time and thought of the next sentence only after heading out. You don’t need to cover your walking habits, how you observe the city, and your writing process all in one short post.
First, mark the sentences you definitely want to keep
Suppose the original says: “On Saturday evening, I left my half-finished article and went out to buy dinner. When I got to the corner, I suddenly knew how to start the next section. I’m not sure if it was because of the walk; I just know that stepping away from the screen for a bit helped me that day.”
The details most worth keeping are the scene of buying dinner and the author’s uncertainty about why it helped. Changing it to “Just a ten-minute walk can break through writer’s block” might sound more like a headline, but it no longer means what the original says.
A post doesn’t have to make every line short to read like a post
You can split it into three short paragraphs: what you were stuck on, what happened next, and how you see it now. Don’t break a complete sentence into five lines just to make it look like a social media post.
Here’s a short version based on the same material. It keeps one scene and preserves the author’s uncertainty.
You can keep the question at the end or remove it. Only include a question if you genuinely want to hear from readers.
Before adding a link, let the post say one thing on its own
A post can tell people what happened and what you tried. You don’t need to stop deliberately before reaching an answer and tell readers to click a link. The full article can offer more context for anyone who wants to keep reading.
If you’re turning the same article into several posts, don’t just change the opening. Choose another angle you have material for, such as “How I jot down ideas that come to me while walking.” That gives you a reason to write another post. If there isn’t a second point, just publish one.
Keep the long-form original and prepare a separate short version
Before rewriting, save a copy of the original. You can create a separate document for the short version, so you don’t cut essential context from the long article just to suit the rhythm of a social post.
In Gaoding, add the passage you want to revise to your document, then tell the Agent who it’s for, how long it should be, and what must stay. Before accepting edits, check especially for changes to numbers, tone, and cause and effect. Shorter copy should still say what you originally meant.
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