Explainer
Define a term properly. The answer lands in the first two sentences, then the article goes deeper and closes on the neighbouring terms.
Use Explainer when someone has searched "what is X" and wants a straight answer. You give it a term; it comes back as one article that defines it in the first two sentences and then goes deeper.
Type the term as a reader would say it
"bond ladder", not "BOND_LADDER_STRATEGY". It goes into the headline exactly as typed, so the article is titled the way someone would actually search for it.
One term, or a list of them
Press Enter for a second line and the field becomes numbered rows. Each term gets its own article on the same shape, and pasting a list does the same thing. A run is capped at 25, and anything past the cap is named rather than quietly dropped.
This is the one shaped format that scales: one term is a run of one, a pasted list is a run of N.
The definition comes first, not last
The desk is told to answer in the opening two sentences, before any history or context. This is the format people land on from a search box and leave if the answer is in paragraph four.
It ends on the neighbouring terms
A closing section covers four or five related terms and how each differs. That is what turns a single definition into something worth linking to from the rest of your writing, and it is why a set of explainers is worth more than the sum of its pages.
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