The Prompt Vault

Free. Version 0.1.0. Windows. No account, no key, no sign-up.

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The idea came from Matthew J (@bermudianbrit@mastodon.online), who suggested a prompt library that sits in the tray instead of scattered across a pile of Word documents. That is what this is.

Two lists, not a tree

Arrow down the categories. Tab across. Arrow down the prompts. Ctrl+C.

That is the whole app. Two flat lists instead of one nested tree, because a tree makes you keep track of how deep you are and two short lists do not.

Every row reads the title first, then the prompt itself, so you know what something is before you hear the whole thing.

The blanks are fields, not brackets

Most prompt collections hand you a wall of text with [YOUR TOPIC] buried somewhere in the middle and leave you to find it.

Press Enter here and you get one labelled edit field per blank, with a live preview of the finished prompt. Fill in four named fields, tab to Copy, done.

That single difference is why this beats a document. Hunting square brackets inside a paragraph with a screen reader is miserable. Filling in a field called "Target length" is not.

What is in it

502 prompts across 13 categories and 61 subcategories.

• Your AI Workspace — standing rules, memory, division-of-labour contracts, making the AI prove things rather than assert them
• Eyes on Demand — photos, packaging, screens, post, signs, appliances
• Code and Building — reading code, debugging, accessible apps, servers, agents in the terminal
• Video Production and Audio, Music and Podcasting — real pipelines, including the measuring step most guides leave out
• Images and Design — generating images you cannot see, and checking them
• Screen Readers and Accessibility — NVDA add-ons, audits, bug reports, and what to do when the AI and your screen reader fight each other
• Plus Foundations, Writing, Social, Everyday Life, Games, and Work

Every prompt has a plain-language description. Press Ctrl+D and it tells you what the prompt does, what you fill in, whether you need to attach a file first, and which AI it suits. That never calls an AI to explain itself, so it works offline and nothing you look at leaves your machine.

Keyboard

| Key | Does | | --- | --- | | Ctrl+C | Copy the prompt | | Enter | Fill in the blanks, then copy | | Ctrl+E | Edit this prompt | | Ctrl+D | Describe it in simpler terms | | Ctrl+R | Put your edit back to the original | | Ctrl+B | Favourite | | Ctrl+N | Write your own | | Ctrl+F | Search everything | | F5 | Check for new prompts |

Make them yours

Edit any prompt to match how you actually work. Ctrl+R puts it back to the original whenever you want. Write your own and they live in My Prompts.

Nothing you write is ever uploaded. There is no account and no server that receives anything.

Your changes are stored separately from the shipped library, so an update can never overwrite a prompt you edited. When a prompt you changed gets a new official version, yours is kept and the new one waits behind Ctrl+R.

The library keeps growing

New prompts and whole new categories arrive on their own. The app checks once a day in the background and folds them in. If nothing arrived, it says nothing.

Those updates are signed, and the app checks the signature before it accepts anything. A prompt library is text that lands on your machine and then goes straight into an AI tool, so it is worth being careful about where it came from.

Where it came from

The prompts started with No Sight Required, my book on AI for blind users, and its bonus pack. The other 354 were written for this, and most of them came out of auditing what I actually do rather than guessing at what sounds useful.

That audit is also why the biggest original category is Your AI Workspace. The single most useful thing I found was not a clever prompt. It was that the things you tell an AI once, in a rules file, do more work than anything you retype every session.