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Annotate Curatorial Copy

Annotate the draft exhibit label PDF with inline corrections and commentary for the curatorial team, use comment tools…

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The same job, four heights

do it · improve it · decide · become
AExecute — “help me do it”Annotate the draft exhibit label PDF with inline corrections and commentary for the curatorial…+
Annotate the draft exhibit label PDF with inline corrections and commentary for the curatorial team, use comment tools to propose alternative wording, and save a copy with [my initials] before sharing.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.
BImprove — “do it better”Mark up the label so curators can act on it quickly — put a short summary of major changes at…+
Mark up the label so curators can act on it quickly — put a short summary of major changes at the top, use different comment colors for factual corrections versus tone edits, attach source citations where I challenge dates or names, and resolve any obvious typos so curators can accept the rest faster.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

The real tasks

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Mark up a draft exhibit label with corrections and commentary so the curatorial team knows what to change.

Who does this

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Questions people ask

honest answers

Because you rarely think 'I want the redaction tool'. You think 'I have to share this without leaking the client's details'. Start from the need, and the feature finds you.

Real. Every job here was drawn from what people in real roles were actually seen doing in Acrobat — not a feature checklist.

No. Each page gives you a ready prompt you can paste into an AI assistant, plus the plain steps to do it yourself. Start with either — the goal is the finished job, not the tool.