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Machined V3
Machined V3
  • About
  • Quickstart
  • Change log
    • 2025-04-01: Brand Voice beta
    • 2025-03-24: Bulk Research, Language fixes and more
    • 2025-03-16: Stability AI images
    • 2025-02-22: Improvements and bug fixes
    • 2025-01-14: Reduced costs
    • 2024-12-26: Projects
    • 2024-12-10: Improvements and bug fixes
    • 2024-11-12: Custom Outlines GTM
    • 2024-10-06: Humanizer GTM
    • 2024-09-23: Model updates
    • 2024-09-10: Custom Outlines beta
    • 2024-08-25: UX Improvements
    • 2024-08-17: Humanizer improvements
    • 2024-07-22: GPT-4o-mini
    • 2024-06-12: Humanizer beta
  • Who is Machined for?
    • Startups
    • Content Sites
    • Marketing Agencies
  • Walkthroughs
    • Configuring OpenAI API Keys
    • CMS Connections
      • Connecting to WordPress
      • Connecting to Webflow
    • Creating Clusters
      • Auto-Pilot Clusters
      • Manual Clusters
    • Writing Articles
    • Featured Images
    • Publishing
      • Publishing to WordPress
      • Publishing to Webflow
    • Exporting
      • Copy as Rich Text
      • Download as HTML
      • Download as Markdown
      • Download Featured Images
    • Webhooks
    • Research
  • Content Structure
    • Overview
    • Content Types
    • Custom Outlines
    • Custom Briefs and Directions
  • VOICES
    • Overview
    • Built-in Voices
    • Custom Voices
  • Further Customization
  • Research
    • Overview
  • Automated Research
  • Directed Research
  • Linking
    • Overview
  • Internal Linking
  • External Linking
  • IMAGES
    • Overview
    • Stock Photos
    • DALL-E 3
    • Stability AI
  • Troubleshooting
    • OpenAI API Key
    • WordPress integration
  • SEO Strategy
    • Internal Linking
    • External Linking
    • Topical Authority
    • Content Clusters
    • Long-tail Keywords
    • Keyword Cannibalization
    • Reader Engagement
    • Bounce Rate
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  1. Content Structure

Custom Outlines

Provide an exact outline that the writing agent should use

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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

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).

How to

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

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