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Optimising for Token Usage in Custom GPTs & Claude Projects
Hey everyone! Just wanted to share a little tip I learned from my experience with Custom GPT and Claude Projects.
If you're uploading files and want to be efficient with your token count, stick to .txt or Markdown files (.md) instead of .docx.
Here's why: A Word document comes with a lot of hidden stuff like formatting, fonts, and metadata that gets counted towards your token limit. A plain text file is just the raw text, making it much more "lightweight" for the AI to process.
If you're a heavy AI user, you know how crucial it is to preserve your tokens. This small change can make a big difference.
If you need some basic formatting, Markdown is a fantastic middle ground. It's cleaner than a Word doc but still allows for things like bold text and headings. Also, Notepad itself allows formatting like bold & italic now.
Hope this helps you save some tokens! :)
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Optimising for Token Usage in Custom GPTs & Claude Projects
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