Cards, toasts & captions

Birthdays, weddings, sympathy — getting past generic to personal.

The lesson

The trick to non-generic sentiment: feed it real memories. Three specific details about the person turn a greeting-card cliché into something that sounds like it could only be about them.

Try it — 60 seconds

Help me write a [birthday card / toast] for [name]. Three true things about them: [memory 1], [memory 2], [memory 3]. Warm, specific, not sappy.

Copy it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — whichever you already use. Fill in the brackets with your real life.

Watch out

If you didn't give it a real detail, it will invent one. Never let AI make up a memory about a real person.