I'm very happy with both the tool and team behind Triplo. There's been lots of progress on what was already very useful. I've been using it daily for about 1 month as of writing.
Features I love:
- Wide selection of models and BYOK.
- Custom Instructions let you inform the model a bit about you and the outputs you want.
- Smart Prompts - these come in three flavors: Normal (commands), Context (informational FYI's given to the model as background) and Inline (shorthands for stuff you don't want to type out directly). You create these for your use cases. Of course you can manually prompt something fully hand-written, but anything you do frequently can be put into a Smart Prompt.
- Normal (commands) can be bound to a shortcut for frequent use. Because Triplo isn't a chrome extension but instead a full app, you can use it within other programs. You can launch its full interface at any time by shortcut too to use Chat Mode for example.
- I especially like Inline Prompts - shorthands that you can mix and match together. For instance, you could have a prompt for a style or tone you want ("//professional//", //"casual"//) and mix that in with a hand-written prompt. Because all models need fairly specific instruction to get the best results, this saves you from writing quite a lot. And you can refine your frequent prompts for consistent output. You can even chain several of these together.
- Auto-completion on Smart Prompts. This saves even more typing.
- Other tools I considered advertise quite a lot of "helpful" tools and prompts, but if you're really going to be using a tool then you need to be able to handcraft, mix and match and refine your work to get the best outcomes, which Triplo is great for.
- Useful Scraping. I scrape, quickly process with a model, and iterate from there.
What I'd like to see more of:
- More shortcut overloading. Disambiguating between `1` and `Numberpad1` for example. Bindable shortcuts are a brand new feature so I'm sure this kind of refinement is coming.
- Ability to exclude certain models and built-in prompts from appearing. If I'm not going to use it, I'd like to archive it.
5 taco tool in current form. Excited to see even higher levels of tacos.