Write a blog post from my notes
The notes are easy - it’s turning them into a finished post that keeps it sitting in a drawer for months. On a bernard-hosted site, your AI does the turning: paste what you have, and it writes the post and files it on your blog.
The prompt
“Write a blog post for my site from these notes: [paste your rough notes]. Match the tone of my existing pages, give it a good title, and add it to my blog index.”
Signed in, Get my prompt fills in your site for you. Otherwise press Copy and fill in the [bracketed] parts. First time? Connect your AI to bernard once: Use your own AI (opens in a new tab).
How it works
- Connect bernard to your AI (once). Log in to bernard, open your site, go to Use your own AI, and paste the setup prompt into your AI to connect it - a one-time setup.
- Paste it into your AI - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, whichever you already use - then paste your notes and use the prompt below.
- Approve. The AI sends back a preview link. Read the post, ask for changes if it’s not quite you, press Approve, and it’s live.
Your notes don’t need to be tidy. A few bullet points, a rambling paragraph, even a transcript of you talking - the AI shapes it into a post and writes a title.
The new post is built the way your newest post is built: the same page layout, with your title, the date and a picture if you give one. In the same change your AI adds a card for it at the top of your blog’s list page, adds it to your site’s feed, and sets the page’s title, description and sharing details, so the post is findable from the day it goes live. If your newest post shows details that belong only to it, such as a project’s tags, your role or a timeline, your AI tells you which of those words the new page still shows, so they can be changed before you approve. If it cannot tell where one card on your list page ends and the next begins, it leaves that page alone and says so, rather than guessing. If the post was planned on your content calendar, your AI links it to that entry, and the entry is ticked off once the post is published.
No blog yet? Start one first - see Start a blog on my site - and every post after that is one ask.
Once it’s up, you can add images to the post, link it to your other posts or edit it later - each is one more ask.
Questions people ask
- How do I write a blog post for my website with AI?
- If your site is hosted with bernard, paste your rough notes - bullet points, voice-note transcript, whatever you have - to the AI you already use, ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. It writes the post in your site’s voice, creates the page and adds it to your blog index.
- Will the post sound like me or like a robot?
- The AI reads your existing pages first and matches their tone. If the draft doesn’t sound right, say so - ‘warmer’, ‘shorter’, ‘less salesy’ - and it rewrites before anything is published.
- Does the post go live as soon as it’s written?
- No - the AI sends you a preview link, and the post only goes live when you read it and press Approve. bernard also keeps the last 100 published versions of your site, so a published post can be edited or rolled back.
- What if my site has no blog yet?
- Your AI looks for a folder holding at least two posts: blog, news, posts or articles, or journal, notes, diary, stories, writing, insights or updates with dated posts. If it finds none, it says so rather than guessing, and points you to starting a blog first. If your posts live somewhere with another name, tell it where, for example ‘my posts are in the recipes folder’.