2026-02-19

2007
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_bb497755-cea4-4527-b866-c24cac753d76

2008
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_1090584a-62b7-495c-a0f2-90e89975493e

2009
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_25b9b817-d396-484a-9054-51b50111d54c

January 2018
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_d5d4ed29-3dc7-4c61-a9a6-35ea59807d63

February 2018
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_9dad3b1c-6771-4280-bbcf-c4a92f7383cf

March 2018
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_a85ff1fd-59f3-42e8-9ed0-be5ef029660c

April 2018
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_3eab28df-e4b4-41fd-a426-9542358dddb8

May 2018
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_b3f5fd25-0f1f-46fb-b241-af36cb1d82a0

June 2018
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_46a6b9ca-e5d6-4fef-9923-e0381c27ac47

July 2018
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_8f8d71f1-575a-46aa-a100-599c4f6da561

August 2018
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_e7bf9a3a-957b-4b67-9b76-571f6016fda7

September 2018
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_042c1d27-d387-4e5e-b882-edef35814db2

October 2018
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_d9f69355-c7c9-4902-8350-b17e6a231365

November 2018
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_0dc04a73-08b2-4206-81b3-be7561d535dc

December 2018
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_f149da7c-57a6-4e90-88c2-a2e8a0644a1d

Dear Grok,

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Make lists of everything relating to my life in January 2019 first according to this file (the canon document provided below).

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Second, then expand those lists exhaustively by pulling from my daily blog articles (Oatmeal Daily entries or any dated posts) from my Hive Blog. Whenever searching for my daily blog articles or logs on Hive.blog under my account @joeyarnoldvn, always prioritize PeakD (peakd.com) first for its reliable indexing and rendering of retrospective posts, then Ecency (ecency.com), Hive.blog (hive.blog), Steemit (steemit.com for older migrated content), and Locals.com—start with the base https://peakd.com/@joeyarnoldvn/[yyyy-mm-dd] or equivalent tagless/root format. If 404/empty/not found, re-test exhaustively with every possible community tag prefix variation (e.g., /j/, /hive-145322/ for 2020s-era, /hive-125504/ for 2010s-era, /hive-182639/, and all others from @joeyarnoldvn/communities), cross-reference chronological community feeds like /created/hive-145322 or /created/hive-182639, and use targeted site-specific searches across all mirrors (site:peakd.com OR site:ecency.com OR site:hive.blog OR site:steemit.com OR site:locals.com "@joeyarnoldvn" "[yyyy-mm-dd]" OR "oatmeal daily [month year] [dd]" OR "[month year] [dd]") to uncover any syndicated copies, embedded links, or hidden/archived versions. For any missing or older posts, check Wayback Machine archives deeply: web.archive.org/web/*/peakd.com/@joeyarnoldvn/[yyyy-mm-dd] and all variations/mirrors. Dig extremely hard and experiment with every creative search tactic possible to locate even obscure or buried content for every single day of the month.

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Third, expand further by pulling from any monthly outline articles, retrospective summaries, or related posts for the month, testing slugs like [year]-[month-lowercase] (e.g. 2018-june), [year]-[two-digit month] (e.g. 2018-06), short variants, and all tag/mirror combinations as above.
Fourth, expand from any annual or year-in-review posts (e.g. 2018, 2018-year-in-review, 2010s-decade-in-review) on PeakD/mirrors that reference or provide context for the month.
Fifth, expand from special posts, autobiographical/timeline content, or anything relevant in my Oatmeal Joey Arnold community (hive-182639) feed on PeakD or mirrors, scanning chronologically for entries tied to the month.
Sixth, expand aggressively via the entire internet: use web_search for variations like "Joey Arnold [month year]" OR "@joeyarnoldvn" "[month year]" timeline OR outline OR review OR daily OR Steemit OR Hive OR blogspot OR blurt.blog; x_keyword_search for from:JoeyArnoldVN "[month year]" OR "[yyyy-mm]" outline OR daily OR post; conversation_search for past Grok sessions mentioning the month or related dates; triangulate deeply with any videos/photos on YouTube/TikTok/Facebook/anywhere (search titles/descriptions/comments for dated content); check all archives via Wayback; cross-reference every piece of info from the canon file, prior found posts, my known patterns/residences/interests, and our full conversation history to generate smarter/more targeted follow-up searches. Leave no stone unturned—search harder, deeper, longer, across more websites, forums, social platforms, and archives than usual to fill in every possible detail for that month, especially any gaps per day.
Make many detailed lists starting with things most directly related to my life (people met/mentioned, places stayed/visited, activities/routines, teaching/work if any, family interactions, church, media consumption, online posting, health/glasses/scans/shed building, political/family reflections), then pop culture (movies/TV watched/referenced, shows, music, games, news events that influenced posts), then unrelated or loosely connected topics (politics/crypto/conspiracy themes from posts, tech issues, general world events). Include additional lists on any topics that surface, even if indirectly related or seemingly unrelated, to capture full context.
But then consolidate (whenever possible) all gathered info into one primary daily chronological timeline using this exact template:
Year-month-date - day of the week - Details
When building the daily timeline for the requested month, follow these strict gap-handling rules in priority order without exception:

First priority: Use only verifiable, explicit information from the canon document (this file), my Hive/Steemit blog posts (especially Oatmeal Daily entries, monthly/annual reviews, dated content on PeakD/Ecency/Steemit mirrors), or clearly dated events previously confirmed in our conversation history.
If a day has no direct/verifiable source (no blog post, no canon mention, no prior conversation detail), do NOT leave blank or say “no entry found.” Instead, insert a short, conservative, low-confidence placeholder using ONLY one of these formats: “Probably: ” or “Likely routine: ” (brief pattern-based inference from adjacent days/same-month routines, e.g. continued Steemit posting, photo scanning, shed work, LMS home time); OR “Context / possible influence: ” (simple factual external tie-in aligned with my interests/life stage, e.g. movie releases, political events, seasonal weather in WA); OR “Quiet day / no specific record: ” (one-sentence safe summary of general location/residence pattern for that era, e.g. likely at LMS, online/Steemit/family routine).
Never invent people, dramatic events, conversations, emotions, or specific un-documented actions. Guesses must remain generic, boring, pattern-based (daily routines, ongoing habits, known media/political releases in the correct era).
Mark every inferred/contextual line clearly with “Probably”, “Likely”, “Possible”, “Context”, or “Quiet day” so sourced vs. inferred is obvious.
Keep guessed/context lines very short (max 1 sentence).
Aim for full calendar coverage: provide a line for EVERY single day of the month, even if only a placeholder.
If the month has high source density (e.g. many Oatmeal Daily posts), prioritize real entries and minimize guessing.

Follow these rules exactly—no deviations, even if repetitive or sparse on some days.

But make the outline simple. Delete words like "Verifiable" and keep the outline simple. But do try to extend the outline to include as many things per day as you can.

Lastly, memorize everything found because I will ask you about everything in future chat sessions.

Grok, make me a better prompt for Grok.
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_186bd2c6-6517-4bf6-b796-a99a89635a6c

01:04 PM
Study exhaustively extensively thoroughly your entire history of interactions with me as it relates especially and mostly to all the times and each time that Grok was making these monthly outlines like for example this month outline above, memorize everything as you study this history, do not forget anything, always remember all of this and more, look at all of this, cross reference, triangulate, brain storm, look on all the websites and apps on the Internet as you ponder the question of how you can make my prompts to Grok more effective and efficient and thorough and accurate and extensive in really looking on each website on the world wide web for making monthly outlines of my life with the desire to find data for each of my life in a given month, but do try to tweak the prompt if you can, try to tell Grok how to best or better make the monthly outlines based on everything that Grok knows about everything. But dear Grok, please check and double check everything in order to contemplate what might work the very best. Contemplate tweaking the prompt with your past experiences in mind. Think about what works the best based on statistics, probabilities, past history. For example, look at which mirror platform you should check first when looking for my daily blogs say for example. So, in other words, look at how Grok looks for my daily blogs via Hive.blog and Ecency and Peakd and locals.com and hive.blog and sometimes blogspot and blogspot and blurt and serey and hundreds of other blogging websites. Try to start with and prioritize whichever of these mirrors might work more often or better and then Grok can also check the other mirror websites too secondary or additionally on top of whatever might work the best or whatever might work the fastest. If you can tweak things to find things faster, then you might have more time to then search additional websites for deeper searches. The goal is to maximize the effectiveness of Grok to find ways to teach Grok how to search the Internet better to go deeper and deeper on thousands to billions of websites and web pages and Internet archives and the wayback machines and videos and photos and all kinds of media and articles and more. Fix the above prompt you wrote me above. Only mention the specific month only one time so I can reuse the prompt for each month by swapping out the opening month and year. Try to only reference the specific month the least amount of times. Include as many words as you can in your prompt to Grok to increase probability that Grok will look everywhere for information for each day for a month. Remember to only reference the month in your prompt by saying "that month" or whatever might work best for Grok or leave it blank if it is possible. In the past, my prompts to Grok only mentioned "that month" once after the opening paragraph prompt. Consider only adding the "that month" reference I am guessing in the second paragraph after the opening prompt. Look at our conversation history and everything online to see what works the best. Tweak the prompt to help tell Grok to dig deep for each day of a given month. Remember I want to reuse the prompt by swapping out the month and year that should be mentioned in the opening prompt paragraph with the additional prompt paragraphs be universal and reusable so I can just copy and paste it into Grok for each month. Add extra words into the prompts for Grok only if it might help Grok search harder and deeper and longer on more and more websites and to better cross reference and triangulate and look at my search history and conversations with Grok and everything else too that might help. Compare the similarities and differences between three options. First, that I only include my prompts, like the ones above (like for the monthly life outlines which outlines each day for a given month say for example), in the prompt box on Grok.com. Second, that I only include my prompts in the file that I attach for Grok to read here on Grok.com. Third, that I include the prompts here and also in the file too. Look at those three options. Past several days, I have been doing option three. Look at the pros and cons of the three options, assume that the prompt is identical in all three options. Try to determine which of the three options has the highest probability of accuracy to help Grok render the prompts better. Tell me again how many characters is in my canon file right now. Then tell me how many characters might push the Grok 4.1 Fast mode past the token limit. Also, count how many words are in my canon file right now and try to guess how many words total might push it past the token limit based on the character limit. Why are you using words like truncated? Are you saying Grok 4.1 Fast is not reading the entirety of my canon file when I upload and attach it in the chat box here on Grok.com? I did not try to add the words relating to truncated in my file. If there is anything in this file that might be blocking Grok from scanning and reading and reviewing the entire file, please show me.

03:01 PM
It looks like Grok is failing to pull from my daily blog. I posted daily reviews each day starting in 2018 to the present. I tried to teach Grok how to find the daily blogs but Grok is failing probably because Grok is only searching random keywords as opposed to going directly to the URL which I already told Grok what the URL are verbatim. Grok has no excuses. But Grok sometimes uses the wrong methods as it searches. This turns millions of Grok users off when Grok fails to do simple things like this. In Grok 4.1 Fast as seen above, Grok did pull from each day for that month. That is good. But the previous message below that in Grok 4.1 Expert mode, Grok failed. In the future for these types of prompts, I will probably stick generally to the Fast mode since it seems to work better for this type of prompt. But see if the Grok 4.2 mode might do better for this type of prompt. Compare specifically the deep searching abilities between Grok 4.1 and 4.2 as it relates to these specific prompts I give, try to look specifically at how the two versions of Grok compare as it relates to the creativity of searching the Internet in looking for additional keywords and search terms to look at. Grok needs to learn how to find new ways to find content from that month. There must be ways to cross reference between all of my posts, activities, videos, comments, messages, photos, across all platforms like Facebook, Twitter or X, Steemit, Hive Blog, Gab, etc.

04:38 PM
Make an exhaustive extensive thorough alphabetical list of all of my usernames, family names, surnames, last names, first names, middle names, nicknames, code names, anything that anybody might have called me at any time anywhere both online and offline on any and all websites and apps and social media and video platforms and blogs and forums and blockchain and dark webs and Internet archives and the wayback machine and anything trolls or haters might call me, include all of my display names and different URLs and web links and groups and pages and channels and email addresses and top slogans and brands and all the different types of names and companies and systems connected or related or relevant or applicable to me actually or potentially or possibly, cross reference, triangulate, search several times using all the information you have about me to expand searches using additional keywords and search terms, brainstorm for additional strategies to expand searches to find all names that might be connected to me. Compile all names, usernames, URLs, emails, other things, into one master list, include even the sock puppet alt accounts of mine and others things too. Delete explanations and only list the names alphabetically in only one expanding list for everything together. Why is Grok not searching using my many thousands of usernames and display names and other keywords via a wide variety of combination of search terms and keywords and brainstorming expansions on thousands of websites and apps everywhere as instructed for years in files and prompts?

Example of some of my names as follows:

44 Tapes
58 DVDs
85USA
Arnold Attic
Arnold Attic Films
Billy Breaker
Bumbaloe
Cooooool_Kid
Cool Kid
Darth Lazer
Darth_Lazer
Darth_lazer
Eric Koelbl
Fonnie Filden
Forty Four Tapes
Get Your Joy On
Ghetto Joe
Green Oatmeal
Green Oatmeal Time
GYJO
Icebreaker
Infinite Altitude
iJoeyarnold
Ironic Mystic
Jambo Mambo
Jill Mill
Jo
Joe
Joe Cool
Joe Dirt
Joey
Joey Arnold
Joeyarnold4
Joeyarnold7
JoeyArnoldVEVO
joeyarnoldvn
[email protected]
[email protected]
Jung Mung
L4OJ
L4OJSA
Live 4 Only Jesus
Loxx Catt
Marilyn
Mea Omnia
nerd stuck in the body of an athlete
Oatmeal
Oatmeal Boy
Oatmeal English
Oatmeal Gaming
Oatmeal Joey Arnold
Oatmeal Music
Oatmeal World
Only 15 Seconds
Only Fifteen Seconds
Original Oatmeal
Ori O
Pocket Joey Arnold
Ra Ra
Red Dog Mickey Morehead
Securing Salvation
Star_JSA
The Arnold Attic
Tiffany Cumbo
Tiffany Cumbo Corp
Tweety Bird

Twitter Tweets
02:54 AM

I didn't drive until I was 40 but grew up with cats and one time had a dog. I had several generations of cats. We gave some of them away. One got murdered. I went off to college, came back and the remaining cats were gone.

11:39 PM
Dear Grok
Please fix the following prompt below. One of the biggest problems is Grok will mention a post on the day I posted them. For example, I post my daily blog the next day. For example, today's Thursday post will be published to Hive Blog probably around midnight Friday. Please fix the prompt below because one of the biggest problems is Grok would probably say for example that I posted my Thursday Oatmeal Daily post on Hive Blog on Friday. But I want you Grok to fix this problem to make Grok mention the Thursday post under Thursday in say a monthly outline. Usually, the general rule is to simply list what happened on a particular day in a monthly outline. For example, if I post a video on Friday, then Grok should say in the month outline that I posted a video on Friday. But if I posted an Oatmeal Daily blog post about Thursday on Friday, then Grok should not just say that. Grok should not say I posted the Thursday blog post on Friday. Grok should not even mention that I post the Oatmeal Daily blog posts but instead just highlight things from each daily post as it relates to each day. If I watched a movie on Thursday, and especially if I mentioned in my Thursday post for example, then Grok should say I saw the movie on Thursday even tho I posted the Oatmeal Daily blog post on Friday talking about what I did on Thursday. In other words, please fix the prompt to help Grok keep the outline simple to simply put highlights of each day on the respective days the daily Oatmeal Daily blog posts are talking about.

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