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If you use Microsoft Copilot for work — drafting emails, summarizing documents, or just as your default assistant because it's already signed into your Microsoft account — you've probably got a handful of prompts that consistently work well. The problem is Copilot gives you nowhere central to keep them. Every session starts from a blank box, and "the good version" of your prompt lives wherever you last typed it.
PromptDock is a free Chrome extension that fixes this directly inside copilot.microsoft.com: save a prompt once, then type // in the Copilot input box to insert it instantly — no tab switching, no digging through old chats.
Copilot has chat history in the side panel, and inside specific Microsoft 365 apps (Word, Outlook, Teams) it can pick up some context automatically. None of that is a prompt library:
So the default workaround is the same one everyone lands on: a notes doc, a pinned email to yourself, or a sticky note titled "Copilot prompts" that you copy from by hand. It works, but it costs a tab switch and real time every single time you use it.
Here's the actual workflow, and it's the whole product in one sentence: open copilot.microsoft.com, click into the prompt box, type //, and a small palette appears above your cursor listing your saved prompts.
Type a couple of letters to filter your saved prompts by name or folder, use the arrow keys, hit Enter, and the full prompt lands in the Copilot input box with your cursor ready to go. Roughly two seconds from "I need that prompt" to "it's in the box" — faster than remembering where you saved it, let alone retyping it.
Getting prompts into your library is just as low-friction:
A dedicated keyboard shortcut also opens the palette without typing the trigger characters, for anyone who prefers not to touch the mouse.
Most of your best Copilot prompts aren't actually one prompt — they're a pattern with one or two things that change each time. PromptDock's {{variables}} templates save that pattern once:
Insert it with // like any other prompt, and PromptDock prompts you to fill in number and audience in small fields before it drops the finished prompt into Copilot's input box. One saved template quietly replaces dozens of near-duplicate prompts you'd otherwise have to retype or hunt for.
Realistically, you don't only use Copilot. Maybe it's your default because of work Microsoft licensing, but you switch to ChatGPT or Claude for something outside the Microsoft ecosystem, or Perplexity when you need cited sources. Every other prompt-saving method — Copilot's own history, a Chrome bookmark, a notes doc — stays trapped in whichever tool you wrote it for.
Save an email-rewrite template once in Copilot, and it's already sitting there the next time you open Claude to polish a longer document. For the fuller case on why this matters day to day, see our guide on reusing prompts across every AI tool, or the broader rundown of every way to save ChatGPT prompts — most of the trade-offs apply to Copilot too.
Prompts you write for Copilot often touch work documents, internal emails, or draft plans you'd rather not have leave your machine. PromptDock stores your entire library locally in Chrome's extension storage. There's no PromptDock account to create, no login screen, and no server your prompts get uploaded to.
<all_urls>.If privacy and pricing across the category are on your mind, our comparison of prompt manager alternatives and roundup of the best AI prompt managers in 2026 go through this in more depth — most competitors require an account and a recurring subscription; PromptDock requires neither.
Group prompts by project or client, and filter with tags when the palette list grows past a couple dozen.
Keep your daily drivers at the top of the palette so they're the first thing you see, before you even type a filter.
Move your whole library in or out as JSON — useful for backups, or migrating from another tool or a notes doc.
Open the palette from anywhere in the page with a shortcut, no need to type // first.
Highlight any text on any page — including a Copilot reply you want to reuse as a prompt later — and save it in two clicks.
No network requests, no cloud dependency. The palette renders instantly because it's reading from local storage.
Free starts you at up to 10 saved prompts, forever, no card and no account. Every fresh install also unlocks the full Pro feature set — unlimited prompts, templates, sync — for a 7-day trial, so you can decide with the real thing in hand rather than a stripped demo.
No subscription. Pay $19 once, keep Pro forever.
Not ready to install? Start with our free 50 ChatGPT prompts pack — most work just as well pasted into Copilot, and you can import the whole set into PromptDock in one click whenever you are. If you want the shortcut-first version of this pitch, see how the // slash command works across every supported AI site.
Stop retyping the same Copilot prompts. Install PromptDock, save your first prompt, and press // in Copilot — it takes less time than reading this sentence again. Add to Chrome — it's free →No. Copilot has chat history and, in some Microsoft 365 apps, saved context scoped to that one app — but nothing that lets you save a named prompt on copilot.microsoft.com and re-insert it everywhere with a shortcut.
Select any prompt text on copilot.microsoft.com, right-click, and choose "Save to PromptDock" — or open the extension popup and add it manually. It's saved locally in Chrome, instantly available everywhere PromptDock works.
Yes. PromptDock keeps one prompt library that appears via the // trigger in Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok, Mistral, Poe and Google AI Studio.
No. Prompts are stored locally in Chrome's extension storage. There's no PromptDock account and no server your prompts pass through. You can export your library to a JSON file at any time.
Yes. The free plan stores up to 10 prompts with no time limit. Every install also unlocks all Pro features — unlimited prompts, templates, and sync — free for 7 days, no card required.