How I use AI to plan my week in 20 minutes
Every Monday I lost an hour and a half deciding what to do first. I went through emails, loose notes and my calendar, and still started the week feeling I'd forgotten something. Three months ago I tried handing the mechanical part to AI. This is the method that has worked for me.
1. Dump everything, unsorted
The first step is to paste everything pending into a single message: tasks, meetings, half-formed ideas. It doesn't need to be tidy. AI sorts far better than I think at eight in the morning.
2. Ask for a plan with clear criteria
The key is telling it how I want to prioritise. This is the prompt I use, almost unchanged, every week:
3. Review and adjust
The plan is never perfect the first time, and that's fine. I spend five minutes moving things around and explaining why. Over time I've learned that the last sentence of the prompt, the one about asking before deciding, is what improves the result most.
The three mistakes I made at the start
- Asking for too little. "Organise my week" gets generic answers. Criteria change everything.
- Accepting the plan without reading it. AI doesn't know I have a doctor's appointment on Thursday unless I tell it.
- Sharing sensitive data. Now I remove client names and figures before pasting anything.
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