Hi everyone,
While working with APIs in Postman, I’ve been trying to improve how I think about request flows and relationships between endpoints not just testing them individually, but understanding how they connect.
Recently, I experimented with a small idea inspired by the **boxed letters nyt **puzzle game. The concept is simple: instead of treating each request as isolated, I try to “connect” them in a logical chain, where the output of one influences the next—almost like linking letters to form meaningful sequences.
For example:
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Start with an auth request
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Use its token dynamically in the next request
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Chain data across multiple endpoints to simulate real workflows
I know this is already something many of us do with collections and environments, but approaching it as a constraint-based exercise actually helped me:
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Think more clearly about dependencies
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Design cleaner collections
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Avoid unnecessary duplication
Since the community often discusses collections, performance issues, and workflows , I thought this might be an interesting mindset shift rather than a feature suggestion.
Has anyone else tried similar “structured thinking” approaches when building or testing APIs in Postman? Or do you rely more on automation and scripts for this?
Curious to hear different workflows 