Custom Outlines

Provide an exact outline that the writing agent should use

Providing a custom outline allows you to create content to a predefined structure, this is extremely useful if you have a specific outline in mind.

How to create a custom outline

To create a custom outline for an article, open the Content Type menu and choose "Custom outline" from the bottom of the menu.

This will open the Outline Editor as shown below

The Outline Editor requires you to provide your outline in the left panel using markdown. If you're unfamiliar with markdown, please see this guide.

Machined only supports headings H2, H3 and H4 - other markdown will be ignored. This means that you can paste any markdown text and we will extract only the outline from it - super easy. At present there is no templating engine, so you need to provide the outline verbatim, the agent will not update headings based on the keyword, title or anything else.

For the most part the agent will correctly stick your custom outline - but remember that this is AI and your outline is only one part of the underlying instructions for the writing agent. Ultimately, the agent may decide that your outline doesn't work for the content brief it's been given (topic, audience, keywords etc).

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