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# Prompts
> Writing journal prompts for every client's workspace, and suggesting one to your own client.
Writing prompts of your own is being rolled out. Clients can still use the shared catalogue.
A prompt is a question or an instruction to write against. You write them in **Prompts**, and a published one carries your name, your discipline and a link to your profile into every client's prompt list.
## Writing one
Click **New prompt**.
| | |
| --------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| **Title** | Up to 80 characters. What the card says |
| **Description** | Up to 160. One line under the title |
| **The prompt itself** | Up to 2,000 characters. What a client writes against |
| **Category** | One of eight, below |
| **Icon** | From a fixed set |
| **Colour** | Mint, butter, blush, sky, or plain grey |
The eight categories are **Starting out**, **Before a session**, **After a session**, **Hard days**, **Relationships**, **Gratitude**, **Growth** and **Rest**. A client can filter by any of them.
A title and a body are all that's required to save.
## Private or published
You choose when you save.
Nobody else sees it. It stays in **Your prompts** as a draft, and you can still suggest it to your
own client.
In the catalogue every client can browse, bylined with your name and discipline and linked to your
profile. Only therapists can publish.
A client can write prompts, but only for themselves.
The publish check reads the role on your record rather than the one in your session, so it takes
effect immediately.
## Suggesting one to a client
Open a prompt and choose **Suggest**. It appears in that client's **Suggested for you**, marked with your name and a note of up to 280 characters if you write one.
* **Your caseload only.** Someone you've had, or have, a session with.
* **They need an account.** A client you added yourself who hasn't signed up can't be sent one. You'll be told.
* **Suggesting the same one again replaces it.** The note is overwritten, and the suggestion comes back if they'd cleared it.
Nothing obliges a client to use a suggestion, and nothing tells you whether they did.
## What you can't see
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| ---------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Who saved your prompt | Not visible |
| Who wrote an entry from it | Not visible |
| Whether a client used a suggestion | Not reported |
| What anyone wrote | Never. A journal entry is private unless the client shares that entry |
Prompts carry no read counts, unlike [Writing](/therapists/writing). To know whether one landed, ask the client in a session.
## Withdrawing one
**Delete** removes a **private** prompt outright. A **published** one is withdrawn from the catalogue instead: nobody new can find it, and entries already written against it stay readable.
## What not to put in one
A published prompt is you, named and linked, in front of clients who haven't chosen to see you. Nothing screens it.
* **Write for anyone, not for someone.** A prompt is general writing and can't assess a person.
* **No case material.** A composite is still identifiable if the person would recognise themselves.
* **No claims about outcomes.** The advertising limits on your [posts and reviews](/therapists/reviews-and-advertising-rules) apply to a prompt with your byline too.
Nobody reads what a client writes, so writing is not a way for them to reach anyone. If you write a
prompt that touches suicidal thinking, self-harm or crisis, put the crisis lines in the prompt
itself. Emergency services on **000**. Lifeline on **13 11 14**. See [Getting help](/getting-help).
## Related
Posts and practice updates, which are public and counted.
The other side of this page, including what stays private to them.