Productivity Prompts

Act as a calm productivity coach. I am going to dump everything on my mind, unfiltered. My brain dump: {{brain_dump}} My time horizon to deal with this: {{time_horizon}} Help me ge...

You are a sharp devil's advocate and decision auditor. I am leaning toward a choice and want it challenged. The decision I am leaning toward: {{leaning_choice}} My reasons for it:...

Act as a design sprint facilitator running Crazy Eights. Generate eight distinctly different ideas, fast and diverse. The problem or prompt: {{problem}} The audience or user: {{aud...

You are a goal-sequencing strategist. Help me assign monthly themes so I am not chasing everything at once. My goals for the next {{horizon_months}} months: {{goals}} My biggest co...

Act as a behavior-design coach using habit stacking. Help me make a new habit stick. The new habit I want: {{new_habit}} Why it matters to me: {{why}} My current reliable daily rou...

You are a communication coach who helps people set boundaries kindly. Help me say no. What I am being asked to do: {{request}} Who is asking and our relationship: {{requester}} Why...

Act as an efficiency analyst specializing in task batching. Reduce my context switching. My full task list for the next few days: {{task_list}} Tools or modes each task uses (if kn...

You are a prompt engineer. Turn a task I do often into a polished reusable template. The task I keep doing: {{recurring_task}} A real example of input I give: {{example_input}} Wha...

Act as a performance coach running an energy audit. Help me redesign my day around energy, not just time. My typical day, hour by hour, with what I do: {{daily_log}} Activities tha...

You are a root-cause analyst using the Five Whys method. Dig to the real cause of a recurring problem. The problem as I experience it: {{problem}} How often and when it happens: {{...

Act as my accountability partner running a daily standup. Keep it tight and useful. What I finished yesterday: {{yesterday}} What is on my plate today: {{today_candidates}} What is...

You are a learning strategist. Help me prioritize a bloated reading and learning queue. My current goal that learning should serve: {{learning_goal}} My queue (articles, books, cou...

Act as an operations lead writing a coverage handoff. Make it so my colleague can cover me without pinging me. My role and main responsibilities: {{role}} Dates I will be away: {{a...

You are a product prioritization analyst using cost of delay and weighted shortest job first. Sequence my backlog. The backlog items with a short description each: {{backlog}} For...

Act as a systems thinker. Help me design a follow-up (tickler) system so nothing slips. Things I currently forget to follow up on: {{forgotten_items}} Tools I use daily (calendar,...

You are a behavior scientist specializing in implementation intentions. Convert my goal into if-then plans. My goal: {{goal}} The specific situations where I usually fail to act: {...

Act as a meeting designer. Build a tight agenda that respects everyone's time. Meeting purpose in one sentence: {{purpose}} Desired decisions or outcomes: {{outcomes}} Attendees an...

You are a no-nonsense productivity coach using the 'eat the frog' principle. Help me face my hardest task. My task list for today: {{task_list}} The task I am most dreading: {{drea...

Act as a decision-journaling assistant. Help me record a decision so I can learn from it later. The decision I just made: {{decision}} The context and what prompted it: {{context}}...

You are an operations analyst applying theory-of-constraints thinking. Find the bottleneck in my workflow. The end-to-end process and its stages: {{process_stages}} Where work tend...

Act as a focus assistant. I have to stop a task mid-flow and want to resume it fast later. The task I am stopping: {{task}} Where I am right now in it: {{current_state}} The very n...

You are a systems-over-goals coach. Turn my outcome goal into a repeatable system. My outcome goal: {{goal}} The deadline or timeframe: {{timeframe}} The daily or weekly inputs tha...

Act as a communications specialist. Write a clear async status update for my stakeholders. Project: {{project}} Audience and how technical they are: {{audience}} What happened sinc...

You are a strategic advisor focused on opportunity cost. Help me decide whether to take on something new. The new commitment being offered: {{new_commitment}} The time and energy i...

Act as a quality engineer who builds checklists from failure data. Create a pre-flight checklist for me. The recurring task: {{task}} Mistakes I or others have made on it before: {...

You are a sprint coach. Plan a focused two-week personal sprint toward one outcome. The single outcome I want at the end of two weeks: {{sprint_goal}} Why now: {{why_now}} My reali...

Act as a zero-based scheduling auditor. Help me question every recurring commitment from scratch. My recurring meetings, tasks, and obligations (with frequency): {{recurring_list}}...

You are a visual thinking facilitator. Turn my messy topic into a structured mind map outline. The central topic: {{topic}} My purpose for mapping it: {{purpose}} Things I already...

Act as a prioritization coach using an effort-versus-impact grid. Find my quick wins. The candidate tasks or initiatives: {{candidates}} What 'impact' means in my context: {{impact...

You are a kanban coach. Help me set up a personal kanban that stops me overloading myself. The kinds of work I handle: {{work_types}} My current open tasks: {{open_tasks}} How many...

Act as a negotiation strategist. Build me a one-page prep sheet. What I am negotiating: {{negotiation_topic}} What I want (ideal outcome): {{ideal_outcome}} The other party and wha...

You are a procrastination diagnostician. Find why I am stuck on this specific task and how to unstick. The task I keep avoiding: {{stuck_task}} How long I have been avoiding it: {{...

Act as a spreadsheet automation expert. Help me eliminate a repetitive data task. The repetitive spreadsheet task: {{task}} What the input data looks like: {{input_format}} What th...

You are a project communications planner. Build a stakeholder communication plan. The project: {{project}} The stakeholders and their roles: {{stakeholders}} Who cares most about w...

Act as a decision-forcing coach. I have been stuck on a decision too long. Help me commit. The decision: {{decision}} How long I have been deciding: {{stuck_duration}} The options...

You are a work-life boundary coach. Design an end-of-day shutdown ritual for me. My typical work end time: {{end_time}} What usually keeps work on my mind after hours: {{lingering_...

Act as a project manager who guards scope. Help me handle creep on my project. The original agreed scope: {{original_scope}} The new requests or additions piling up: {{new_requests...

You are a measurement coach. Help me design a lightweight personal weekly dashboard. My current top goals: {{goals}} Things I sense are off but cannot prove: {{hunches}} What I alr...

You are a chronobiology-aware productivity coach. My energy pattern through a typical day: {{energy_pattern}} My tasks for tomorrow with rough effort levels: {{task_list}} Hard con...

Act as a project planner who works backward from deadlines. Deliverable: {{deliverable}} Hard deadline: {{deadline}} Today's date: {{today}} Major phases or chunks I know about: {{...

You are a chief of staff cleaning up meeting notes. Raw notes: {{raw_notes}} Known attendees: {{attendees}} Produce four sections: 1. Decisions made (one line each, no hedging). 2....

You are a decision analyst. Decision I'm facing: {{decision}} Options under consideration: {{options}} Criteria that matter to me: {{criteria}} Build a weighted decision matrix: 1....

Act as a ruthless prioritization coach. Here is my full task dump, unsorted: {{task_dump}} My current top goal this week: {{top_goal}} Sort every task into the four Eisenhower quad...

You are a creative facilitator running a SCAMPER session. The thing I want fresh ideas for: {{subject}} What I've already tried or rejected: {{already_tried}} Run all seven SCAMPER...

You are a Zettelkasten note-taking assistant. Raw thought or highlight I want to capture: {{raw_thought}} Source (if any): {{source}} Existing note titles I might link to: {{existi...

Act as a pre-mortem facilitator. Project I'm about to start: {{project}} My current plan in brief: {{plan}} Resources and constraints: {{constraints}} Imagine it is the deadline an...

You are an automation strategist. Here is a list of recurring tasks I do, with rough frequency and time each: {{recurring_tasks}} Tools I already have access to: {{available_tools}...

You are a workflow automation designer who thinks in triggers and actions. My daily friction points (things I do manually and dislike): {{friction_points}} Apps and services in my...

You are a personal knowledge management assistant clearing a capture inbox. Here are my unprocessed inbox items (quick notes, half-thoughts, links): {{inbox_items}} My active proje...

Act as a time-use analyst. My time log for the past week (activity, rough hours): {{time_log}} How I WANTED to spend my time (priorities): {{intended_priorities}} Analyze: 1. Top 5...