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Make a Scroll with an AI chat

The easiest way to make your own Scroll: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI chat does the writing, and you upload what it gives you. No technical knowledge needed.

1. What you need

  • A Nectar account. Create one if you don't have it yet.
  • The text you want to turn into a Scroll: an article, the transcript of a video or podcast, your own notes or a chapter of a book. Copy it from where you read it, or keep the file at hand.
  • Any AI chat, on a computer or a phone.

Use only content you are allowed to use, such as your own writing or a text in the public domain. Create a Scroll explains what that means.

2. Copy the prompt

A prompt is the message that tells the AI what to do. Copy the whole text below with the copy button. You don't have to change anything in it.

Turn the text I send after this message into a Nectar Scroll file.

Work out the title, the authors and the language of the text yourself, and
write the Scroll in that language.
Also translate into: [other languages, or leave this empty]

Use only my text. Do not add facts, claims or examples it does not support.
Split the text into chapters with descriptive titles, and each chapter into
ideas. Each idea is one complete thought that makes sense on its own, in your
own words, at most 400 characters. State each idea directly,
without "the author says". Add short, concrete examples only where they help,
at most 400 characters each. Mark the defining ideas as
"important" (no more than about a quarter of them), strong supporting ideas
as "good" and the rest as "common". Write a description of two or three
sentences about what a reader will learn, at most 600 characters, and
3 to 5 short, lowercase topic tags.

The file is JSON in this shape, with a BCP 47 language code such as "en":
{"language": "...", "title": "...", "authors": ["..."], "description": "...",
 "tags": ["..."], "summaries": [{"title": "Chapter title", "ideas": [
 {"text": "One idea.", "tier": "good", "examples": ["An example."]}]}]}
Every idea has an "examples" list, empty when it has none. For translations,
add a "translations" object with one complete version per language code: the
same chapters, ideas and examples in the same order, each with its own title,
authors, description and tags, and without "language" or "tier".

Give me the result as a downloadable file named scroll.json. If you cannot
make files, answer with only the whole JSON in one code block.

Want the Scroll in more than one language? Replace the text in square brackets with the languages in plain words, for example "French and German". Otherwise leave it as it is.

3. Send the prompt and your text

  1. Start a new chat and paste the prompt.
  2. In the same message, under the prompt, paste your text. You can also attach the file instead.
  3. Send it and wait until the AI has finished writing.

If your text is too long, the chat tells you so or stops halfway. Send the text in parts, one message per part, and after the last one write: "Now put all the chapters into one scroll.json file."

4. Save the file

What you do depends on what the chat shows:

  • A file to download (ChatGPT and Claude usually offer one): download it. Its name should end in .json, such as scroll.json.
  • Only text in a box: press the box's copy button. On a computer, open Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac: first choose Format, then Make Plain Text), paste and save the file as scroll.json. On a phone, write "Please give me this as a downloadable file" and download that instead.

5. Read a few ideas

AI makes mistakes. Open a few ideas and check that each one makes sense on its own, says what your text says and invents nothing. If something is wrong, tell the chat in plain words, such as "make idea 3 shorter" or "the second chapter is missing", and ask for the whole file again. You can also fix ideas later, after uploading.

6. Upload it to Nectar

  1. Sign in and open Import a Scroll.
  2. Choose your scroll.json file. Nectar reads it and fills in the details.
  3. Check the title, the authors and the cover. Leave who can see it at Private if the Scroll is just for you.
  4. Press Save Scroll. The Scroll opens and you can start reading.

7. If Nectar shows an error

Don't worry, this is common. Copy the error message, paste it into the same chat and write: "Nectar shows this error. Fix it and give me the whole file again." Then upload the new file. If it still fails, see Troubleshooting.

Want more control over chapters, translations and details? See Create a Scroll and the file reference.