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Install PromptMason, set it up, and make and copy your first prompt.
This section is for anyone who has just downloaded PromptMason. It covers installing the app, choosing how much of it to show, and making your first prompt from a reusable block.
A few ideas come up everywhere in the guides:
- Block: a reusable piece of prompt text, such as “Act as a careful editor”.
- Prompt: the text you paste into an AI tool. A dynamic prompt is built from blocks and changes when they change. A static prompt is fixed text.
- Library: where your blocks and prompts are kept, on your PC.
- Features: optional parts of the app, such as Tags or Chat, that you can show or hide. Hiding a feature doesn’t delete anything.
Start with Your first prompt. It takes you from the installer to a copied prompt, with a link to more detail at each step. For what Windows may ask when you install, and how to update or remove the app, see Install, update and remove. If the window looks busy, A tour of PromptMason explains what each screen is for, and you can hide the parts you don’t use (see Show or hide features).
Guides in this section
- Your first prompt: Install PromptMason, see how your 14 days of Pro and the license key work, make your first block, build a prompt from it and copy it.
- Install, update and remove: Install PromptMason on Windows, start your 14 days of Pro, update to a new version, and remove it.
- A tour of PromptMason: What each part of the PromptMason window is for, and the few ideas everything else builds on.
- Show or hide features: Turn PromptMason's optional features on or off, so the app shows only what you use.
Want a hand?
Copy this prompt into Claude, ChatGPT or another AI assistant, and it walks you through it step by step.
I'm new to PromptMason and just downloaded it. Explain what blocks, prompts and the library are, and tell me which guide to read first to install it and make my first prompt.
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I'm new to PromptMason and just downloaded it. Explain what blocks, prompts and the library are, and tell me which guide to read first to install it and make my first prompt. About PromptMason: a Windows desktop app for building AI prompts from reusable blocks. A person writes blocks (reusable pieces of prompt text), builds prompts from them on the Build screen (or keeps a Markdown document, such as a Skill), and copies a prompt into an AI tool, runs it in PromptMason’s own Chat, or lets a connected AI agent use it through PromptMason’s built-in MCP server (the Chrome extension copies prompts on any website). AI assist, Evaluate and Chat use a local model that runs on the person’s PC, or their own AI provider. The guides are also on PromptMason’s Help screen, and Chat can answer “how do I” questions from them. Libraries hold the blocks and prompts; a person can sync their personal library to their other PCs and share team libraries, both through a folder in cloud storage they already have (OneDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox). Everything synced is encrypted and every edit is signed and checked. A recovery kit (a file plus a code) is the spare copy of the person’s keys, for when every PC is lost. The official guide for this is "Get started": https://promptmason.ai/docs/get-started Its full text follows, between the lines. Use it as the source of truth, and if anything I see differs from it, tell me rather than guessing. --- This section is for anyone who has just downloaded PromptMason. It covers installing the app, choosing how much of it to show, and making your first prompt from a reusable block. A few ideas come up everywhere in the guides: - **Block:** a reusable piece of prompt text, such as "Act as a careful editor". - **Prompt:** the text you paste into an AI tool. A dynamic prompt is built from blocks and changes when they change. A static prompt is fixed text. - **Library:** where your blocks and prompts are kept, on your PC. - **Features:** optional parts of the app, such as Tags or Chat, that you can show or hide. Hiding a feature doesn't delete anything. Start with [Your first prompt](https://promptmason.ai/docs/getting-started). It takes you from the installer to a copied prompt, with a link to more detail at each step. For what Windows may ask when you install, and how to update or remove the app, see [Install, update and remove](https://promptmason.ai/docs/installation). If the window looks busy, [A tour of PromptMason](https://promptmason.ai/docs/app-tour) explains what each screen is for, and you can hide the parts you don't use (see [Show or hide features](https://promptmason.ai/docs/features)). --- How to help me: - Go one step at a time. After each step, ask what I see on screen before giving the next one. - Use the exact words on PromptMason’s buttons and screens, as the guide does. - Never ask me for my recovery code, my recovery kit file, a password or my invite line, and never ask me to paste them here. - Start by asking which step I’m on, or what I see now.