# Start from a template

> Use a template for a question you ask often, fill its blanks by hand or with AI, and make templates of your own.

Part of the Prolepsia docs: Get started.
Video: [Start from a template](https://app.prolepsia.com/docs/videos/question-templates.mp4), 1:27, with [captions](https://app.prolepsia.com/docs/videos/question-templates.vtt).
This guide as a web page: https://app.prolepsia.com/docs/question-templates

## Steps

1. In the Library, choose Templates.
2. Find a built-in template, one your organization added or one of your own, and choose Use template.
3. Fill in each blank. Or say in a few words what you want and choose Fill with AI. The AI fills the blanks you left empty and keeps the ones you typed.
4. Choose Fill the form. The template writes the question, its description and how it resolves.
5. Check the form, change anything you like and choose Create question.
6. To turn a question into a template, open More actions on the question and choose Save as template.
7. To make a template from scratch, choose Add template on the Templates page. Write the question with a word in curly braces for each blank, such as {company}, give each blank a label and choose Add template.
8. In Discover, pick a template under Question template, and every question Discover suggests follows it.

## Good to know

- A template can also hold notes, files, tags, guidance for the AI and a forecast preset. A question made from it gets them all.
- A question keeps everything it got from its template. Changing or deleting the template later does not change the question.
- Organization admins add organization templates, which every member can use.
- Anyone who can read a question made from a template can read the notes and files it got from the template.
- Filling blanks with AI costs no credits.

## What the video says

A question template is the shape of a question you ask again and again, with blanks for the parts that change. In the Library, choose Templates. Prolepsia comes with built-in templates for common questions, such as company earnings, elections and prices. Your organization's templates and your own are listed below them. Choose Use template. This one asks whether a company reports a number above a target. Fill in each blank yourself, or say in a few words what you want and choose Fill with AI. The AI fills the blanks you left empty and keeps the ones you typed. Choose Fill the form. The template writes the question, its description and how it resolves. It also brings its notes, tags and forecast preset. Change anything you like, then choose Create question. The question shows the template it came from. Changing the template later never changes the question. Any question can become a template. Open More actions and choose Save as template. To build one from scratch, go back to Templates and choose Add template under Yours. Give it a name, then write the question once, with a word in curly braces for each blank. Give each blank a label. The preview shows what people fill in when they use the template. A template can also hold notes, files, tags, guidance for the AI and a forecast preset. Choose Add template to save it. Templates work in Discover too. Pick one, and every question Discover suggests follows its shape.

## Links

- [Open Templates](https://app.prolepsia.com/library/templates)

Every Prolepsia guide is listed at https://app.prolepsia.com/llms.txt.