Quick Create: Build a Fanflet with Fannie
Type a topic and audience, and Fannie drafts a near-publishable fanflet from your library and past talks in under a minute.
What Quick Create does
Quick Create takes you from a topic and an audience to a near-publishable fanflet draft in under a minute. You give Fannie two short prompts. She reads your resource library and your past talks, then drafts a title, public URL, description, and a set of pre-selected resource blocks pulled from items you already own. You review the draft, tweak what you want, and land in the editor with a fanflet ready to publish.
When to use it vs build from scratch
Reach for Quick Create when you have a topic in mind and your Resource Library already holds the slides, handouts, and links you want to share. Fannie matches your topic to library items, ranks them by how often you have used them in published fanflets, and lays out a starter draft.
Build from scratch when you want full control over structure and copy, when you are starting with an empty library, or when you want to assemble something unusual block by block. The two paths produce the same final artifact. Quick Create gets you 80 percent of the way there in one step.
Where to find it
The entry point is labeled With Fannie on the dashboard and Create with Fannie elsewhere. Three places open the same modal.
- Dashboard hero. The green With Fannie button sits on your dashboard alongside New Fanflet.
- Mobile FAB. The floating green button on the dashboard sidebar opens Quick Create on phone-sized screens.
- Anywhere a Create with Fannie button appears. The same button shows up on the fanflets list and on empty-state cards.
The four steps share one modal
Step 1: Your topic and audience
The first screen asks two questions. What topics will you cover? is required. Who's your audience? is optional but worth filling in. Fannie reads both fields plus your speaker bio, your five most recent fanflets, and up to 20 ranked library items before drafting anything. Recent fanflets give her tone and naming patterns. Library usage tells her which resources you reach for most often.
Type your topics
A sentence or two is enough. “Patient communication for first-year hygienists, with a focus on consent conversations” gives Fannie more to work with than “hygiene.”
Add your audience
Optional. Skip it for repeat audiences Fannie already knows from your past talks. Fill it in when the audience is new or distinct, for example “dental school faculty” or “facility managers at NFMT.”
Click Generate with Fannie
The green button at the bottom of the modal kicks off generation. The button is disabled until you have typed at least a few characters into the topics field.
Step 2: Web-sourced resource suggestions
Below the audience field is a checkbox: Include suggestions from the web. Off by default. When you turn it on, a small number field appears so you set how many web suggestions you want, up to ten. Three is the default.
With the checkbox on, Fannie supplements your library with public links she knows by name, things like government sites, well-known tools, or canonical reference pages. She only suggests web links she knows the real URL for. If she does not know the canonical URL, she drops the suggestion rather than invent one. Web suggestions show up in the review step under a separate From the web heading, so you see at a glance which items came from your library and which came from outside it.
Library first, web second
Step 3: Reviewing the draft
After a few seconds of generating, the modal flips to Review your Fanflet. You see four things you control before saving.
- Title. Edit inline. Fannie writes a compelling title, not a flat topic restatement. Adjust it to match how you announce the talk.
- Description. One sentence describing what attendees get from the talk. Edit inline.
- Public URL. Generated from the title in URL-safe form, two to four words long. Visible after save and editable in the editor Access tab.
- Suggested resources. Three to five blocks Fannie picked. Each is checked by default. Uncheck any block to skip it. Library items show their type tag (link, file, video). Web items show their description and source.
If Fannie cannot find library matches and you have no past fanflets, a blue welcome banner appears at the top of the review. In this case, her suggestions are text-only starter blocks like Key Takeaways and Discussion Questions. She does not invent file or link blocks when there is nothing to reference.
Step 4: Save and continue editing
The review screen has two save paths.
- Create & Open Editor. Saves the fanflet as a draft and opens it in the full editor. Nothing is published yet. Use this when you want to add more blocks, set a theme, configure access, or tweak section names.
- Publish & Get QR. Saves the fanflet, flips publish on, and drops you on the QR code page so you have a code to share before you walk on stage.
Either way, Fannie stays available inside the editor as your AI coach. She audits the fanflet on open and surfaces fixes for missing thumbnails, vague titles, broken links, or empty sections. Read more in Fannie, your AI coach.
Tips for better drafts
- Be specific in your topic. A descriptive sentence beats a one-word category. Fannie has more to anchor on, and your title and description come back sharper.
- Fill out your library first. Quick Create gets stronger as your library grows. Even five or ten well-titled items give Fannie real material to pick from.
- Mention the audience clearly.Audience shapes tone. “Front-line dental hygienists” produces different language than “practice owners.”
- Use the web toggle when your library is thin. For a brand-new topic, web suggestions fill gaps without forcing you to stockpile links you have never used.
What Quick Create won't do
- Publish on its own.Create & Open Editor saves a draft. Nothing goes live until you flip the publish toggle or choose Publish & Get QR.
- Change your speaker profile. Quick Create reads your bio, name, and history for context. It never edits them.
- Write blocks from scratch without library context. Fannie picks from your library first. With no library and no prior fanflets, she writes text-only starter blocks instead of inventing file or link blocks. She never fabricates URLs.
- Replace the editor. Quick Create gets you to a draft fast. The block editor is still where you fine-tune copy, set sections, attribute blocks to sponsors, and configure access.